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Special representative of the Georgian Prime Minister on the Russian-Georgian relations Zurab Abashidze will meet with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin at the end of next week.

The Abashidze -Karasin meeting will be held in Prague.

The meeting will discuss the freeing up of the visa system, activation of transport relations and arrangements of regular flights, Abashidze told journalists on Sept.13.

According to him, there will also be a preliminary discussion of the issues which are planned to be discussed in an enlarged format in the future.

Large scale military action was launched in South Ossetia on August 8, 2008. Later, Russian troops occupied Tskhinvali and expelled the Georgian military.

Russia recognised the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in late August. In response, Tbilisi ended diplomatic relations with Moscow and has called the two unrecognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia occupied territories.

Georgia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia after their August 2008 war over the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia lost one-fifth of its territory after the two republics broke away. Georgia announced the two unrecognized republics as occupied territories in September 2008.

Till the end of 2005 economic relations between Georgia and Russia were developing sufficiently actively, the turnover was on the rise, the intergovernmental economic commission was functioning. However, the actions undertaken by the Russian side first deterred the rate of development, then practically brought the level of economic co-operation down to minimum.

The normalization of the previous bilateral relations between two states is not far off, however warming between neighbors mostly depends on the compromise that seems will take time from both sides. Herewith, Georgia is ready to restore relations, except the means of its territorial integrity, however, Russia is expecting conclusive and definitive position toward Russia.