GEORGIA INSISTS ON WITHDRAWAL OF RUSSIAN BASES
By empty (2/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The attitude of Georgia to Russian military bases remains unchanged and amounts to demanding their speedy withdrawal from Georgia, parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze told reporters on Friday after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. \"Georgia continues to insist on the speedy withdrawal of bases and will not agree to the timeframe suggested by the Russian side, namely 6-7 years,\" she said. She said they had also discussed joint control over Roki tunnel connecting the Russian internal republic of North Ossetia and Georgia\'s breakaway territory of South Ossetia but she \"did not see the Russian side\'s readiness for it.Visit also
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