{"id":125311,"date":"2016-02-22T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"Burjanadze_Meets_Russia_s_Deputy_Foreign_Minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldwp.civil.ge\/archives\/125311","title":{"rendered":"Burjanadze Meets Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin met with leader of Georgia’s opposition Democratic Movement party, Nino Burjanadze, in Moscow on February 19.<\/p>\n
“Various aspects of Russian-Georgian relations were discussed with focus made on the need of their normalization,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement on its website.<\/p>\n
It was Burjanadze’s third visit to Russia over the past seven months. She met Karasin, as well as Russia’s State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin in Moscow in July<\/a><\/strong>, 2015 and then speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko in St. Petersburg in September<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n She said after those previous visits that her contacts with the Russian leadership aimed at “contributing positively to the Russian-Georgian relations and at preparing ground for concrete steps to resolve the problems after [her party] comes into power.”<\/p>\n