Moscow Hopes to Launch Talks over Military Bases in March

In late March, Russia hopes to hold consultations with the Georgian side over the Russian military bases stationed in Georgia, said Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry?s spokesman, on March 15.

?An agreement to resume Russo-Georgian negotiations over the problems related to the Russian military bases in Georgia was reached during the visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Tbilisi in February, 2005. In frames [of this agreement] the holding of talks over the issue of setting up a Russian-Georgian anti-terrorist center on the basis of part of the infrastructure of [one of] the military base[s] which will be disbanded is also being considered,? Alexander Yakovenko said.

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