23:26, 24 October 2006

Foreign ministers of Russia and Georgia meet in Moscow

Nino Kadzhaya, head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that on November 1-2 in Moscow, within the session of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), a meeting will take place of the ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and Georgia Sergey Lavrov and Gela Bezhuashvili.

Today, the ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and Georgia, for the first time after the onset of the "espionage scandal," had a telephone talk. According to the press centre of the Georgian MFA, the topic of the conversation was the most actual for the last month - aggravated Georgian-Russian relations.

Meanwhile, the Georgian party goes on with its negotiations with the MFA of the Russian Federation and the Federal Migration Service of Russia with regard to deportation to homeland of about 100 citizens of Georgia. Totally, from the start of the year, about 5000 Georgian citizens have been deported to Georgia.

Author: Alena Aleschenko, CK correspondent