RUSSIAN, GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTERS HOPE FOR MILITARY COOPERATION
In the frame of a 2-day visit, the Georgian delegation is expected to meet with defense minister of Russian Federation Sregei Ivanov, as well as other top officials of Russia.
Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday expressed the hope for the resumption of full-scale cooperation with Georgia in the military and military-technical fields.
“I hope that we shall succeed in taking steps aimed at the revival of relations between the military departments, which are now close to zero,” Minister Ivanov said in the course of his meeting with Georgian defense minister Georgy Baramidze.
The Russian minister noted that the two countries have already taken steps in this direction since the beginning of this year. However, they have failed so far to “do anything specific and to build a clear-cut system of inter-relations between the Russian and Georgian military.”
He said, “No titanic efforts are needed for the purpose, it is enough to agree and do.” Sergei Ivanov noted that Georgy Baramidze’s meeting with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Yuri Baluyevsky scheduled for Wednesday will provide an additional opportunity for the development of contacts of the military.
The Georgian minister noted, “The president, government and defense ministry of Georgia are set to resolve the accumulated problems in the sphere of bilateral relations.”
“These problems are solvable. There is nothing on which we could not reach an agreement,” said Georgy Baramidze. “To my mind, the interests of Russia and Georgia are intertwined and coincide in 95 percent of the cases. Our delegation is determined to work and find solutions to specific problems,” he said.
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