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By Jamila Babayeva

A meeting between Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative Zurab Abashidze with Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, which was scheduled for March 4-5, has been postponed.

The meeting was postponed at the Russian side's request, Abashidze told Trend on February 28. "A new meeting is scheduled for March 14," he said.

During the meeting the parties, alongside with current issues, are expected to discuss the possibility of a meeting between the heads of Georgia and Russia.

Georgia and Russia, its giant northern neighbor, have maintained 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.

The first meeting of Georgian and Russian official representatives was held in Geneva on December 14, 2012, the last fifth meeting - in Prague on November 21, 2013.