Georgia Calls Russia to Resume Talks on Framework Agreement

(Tbilisi, January 11, 2003. Civil Georgia) – Georgian Foreign Minister Irakli Menagharashvili stated at the news briefing on January 10 that Georgia is ready to resume talks on framework agreement with Russia and called Moscow for reciprocal move.

“The agreement should be the bases for solving all the problems that exists in relations between Georgia and Russia; especially the Abkhazian issue and the problem of the withdrawal of the Russian military bases from Georgia,” Irakli Menagharishvili said.

Georgia and Russian signed a framework agreement about friendship, peaceful relationship and cooperation on November 3, 1994. Georgian Parliament ratified the document but Russian Duma Council refused to ratify it somehow. The talks on drafting the new framework agreement was terminated last year.

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