Georgian president welcomes prospect of re-launching Sochi-Tbilisi air services
TBILISI. Feb 10 (Interfax) - Georgian President Giorgy Margvelashvili welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement that regular air services may be launched between Tbilisi and Sochi.
Margvelashvili told reporters that he welcomes "restoration of all ties with Russia that would lift tensions and bring the two countries to a rational dialogue."
"The policy pursued by the Georgian authorities over the past year is based on the assumption that commercial and cultural contacts between Russia and Georgia constitute the prerequisite that must ultimately prepare background for settling the most serious political problems between the two countries," Margvelashvili said in comments on Putin's statement on Monday that the Olympic Games helped restart air services between Sochi and Tbilisi and that this practice is to be continued after the Games.
Speaking about the most acute problems in bilateral relations, first of all those connected with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Margvelashvili said that, "the occupation of Georgian territory" cannot bring positive results.
