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    GEORGIAN FM SAYS HE HAD NO PLANS TO MEET PUTIN

    Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi,
    1 Nov 2006

    [Presenter] A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Black Sea
    Economic Cooperation organization member countries has begun
    in Moscow. After the meeting, [Georgian Foreign Minister] Gela
    Bezhuashvili will meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at 1800
    hours Tbilisi time [1400 gmt]. At 1900 hours [1500 gmt] he will meet
    Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov in the Kremlin.

    This morning Bezhuashvili met Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
    Oskanyan. The main issue under discussion was the demarcation
    of the Georgian-Armenian border. After the meeting, Bezhuashvili
    denied reports that he was to supposed to meet [Russian President]
    Vladimir Putin.

    [Bezhuashvili] It would be a great honour for me to meet President
    Putin but this was not planned. This is because I am not here on a
    [official] visit but rather I am taking part in a meeting of ministers
    held within the framework of an international organization.

    No such meeting was planned. I do not know why Russian agencies are
    circulating this information.

    I've met the Armenian foreign minister. We are neighbours. We have
    the type of relations that neighbours should have. I was in Baku
    yesterday, while today I met the Armenian foreign minister. I will
    meet the Russian foreign minister later today. We are trying to
    build relations in our neighbourhood of the kind that are appropriate
    between neighbours.

    [Oskanyan, in English, with Georgian translation superimposed] We are
    very troubled by the situation that has taken shape in Georgian-Russian
    relations because we are neighbours. I am glad Gela Bezhuashvili is
    in Moscow to resolve this problem. In the near future we will travel
    to Brussels for a meeting on the EU Neighbourhood Policy. This will
    allow us to further strengthen our ties with the EU.
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