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By Jamila Babayeva

Georgia attempts to improve its relations with Russia and takes constructive steps with this aim.

Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze made the statement at a press conference on April 9.

She said namely such a balanced policy is a priority for Georgia in the international arena.

"Georgian government has chosen its path - integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures," she noted. "Also, Georgia tries to improve its relations with Russia and to take constructive steps with this aim."

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.