The Georgian government will not compromise on territorial integrity; the liberation of the occupied territories is a red line, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated. Radio Azatutyun.
Earlier, the Russian newspaper Izvestia, citing diplomatic sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, reported that Moscow still sees no grounds for resuming political dialogue with Georgia, as the Georgian Dream party continues Mikheil Saakashvili’s line, “linking the restoration of diplomatic relations to the refusal to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”
“This demand is harmful to Georgia itself and unrealistic. Moscow emphasized the irreversibility of the decisions to recognize the republics’ statehood,” a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Izvestia.