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Georgia’s Foreign Minister Conditioned Friendship with Russia
Georgia is ready to maintain good relations with Russia if the latter treats it as a sovereign state, Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze announced in the air of PrimeTime talk show of Georgian TV.
The relations with Russia should be based on three key conditions – Georgia’s sovereignty, its territorial integrity and free choice, the minister said, pointing out that Georgia is ready for compromising but not at the cost of those three provisions.
The country’s nation should independently decide whether to join NATO or any other international organization, the minister specified.
It is not the first time after presidential election of January 5 that official Tbilisi manifests the will to improve the relations with Russia. On January 31, for instance, Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze publicly announced that partnership with Russia will be of great benefit to Georgia.
Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili continuously emphasizes the need to have better relations with Russia. We are extending a hand of partnership to our northern neighbor, we are to be friends, the president pointed out during the inauguration of January 20, 2008.
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