MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ARMENIA AND GEORGIA DISCUSS ISSUES OF BILATERAL COOPERATION IN MOST IMPORTANT SPHERES
Noyan Tapan
Jul 26, 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of
Foreign Affairs, who is in Georgia on an official visit, met with
Gela Bezhuashvili, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, on July
25. According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press
and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
sides discussed issues concerning bilateral cooperation in political,
economic, and cultural spheres, as well as territorial problems. They
also touched upon the negotiations concerning the bordering of the
Armenian-Georgian state frontier line. Vardan Oskanian attracted his
colleague’s attention on the issue concerning the recent detentions
of RA citizens by Georgian law enforcement bodies on the charge of
passing over Georgian border in an illegal way.
Touching upon the prospects of the settlement of the conflicts existing
in the territory, Vardan Oskanian introduced the democratization
processes in the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh and the recent
developments with regard to the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. Gela Bezhuashvili introduced in his turn the Georgian
approaches in respect to the settlement of the conflict of Abkhazia
and the steps taken in the direction of internationalizing the problem
of South Ossetia.