Georgia, Russia to sum up work for year
By Nazrin Gadimova
Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for Relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin will sum up the work for the outgoing year during the next meeting to be held in Prague on November 21.
"A year has passed since we started the discussion on specific topics - trade, transport, communications, humanitarian and cultural relations," Abashidze told journalists.
"We will sum up the work for the year and will try to share ideas for the future. We believe that the next phase of topics will be related to these areas, but it may also be a new stage of the dialogue."
The first meeting of the official representatives of Russia and Georgia was held as part of settling bilateral relations in Geneva on December 14, 2012. Afterwards, the discussions continued in Prague. The sides agreed that such meetings will take place again in the next 2 or 3 months.
The November 6-7 negotiations towards an agreement on non-use of force in the framework of the Geneva talks on Abkhazia and South Ossetia ended without result.
Georgia and its giant northern neighbor Russia have had no diplomatic relations since a brief war in 2008. Tbilisi broke off relations with Moscow in August 2008 when Moscow crushed a Georgian assault to reassert control over two rebel regions - South Ossetia and Abkhazia - and later recognized the regions.
Georgia announced the two unrecognized republics as occupied territories in September 2008.