TBILISI. July 14 (Interfax-AVN) - A planned meeting between the Georgian and Russian presidents, Mikheil Saakashvili and Dmitry Medvedev, has been put off indefinitely because of a current row between the two countries, according to a Georgian deputy foreign minister.
"I do not think that in this situation there may be any meeting between the presidents of the two countries as relations between the states have been reduced to the minimum," Deputy Minister Grigol Vashadze told reporters on Friday.
"There is in effect a fire raging in Georgian-Russian interstate relations today, a fire that needs to be extinguished," Vashadze said.
The deputy minister also said Georgia would shortly seek debates in the UN Security Council and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on an incident on Tuesday, in which Russian warplanes flew over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.