TBILISI. March 4 (Interfax) - Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has accepted President Mikheil Saakashvili's proposal to meet on March 4, the prime ministerial press service said.
"Ivanishvili is willing to meet with the president in the morning hours of March 4," it said.
Ivanishvili proposed to Saakashvili on Tuesday that he should decide what constitutional amendments restricting his powers could be adopted, and Saakashvili said he agreed to meet and discuss this.
Saakashvili met with the parliamentary minority on Friday to say that he would hold consultations within the next two days to determine his position at upcoming negotiations with Ivanishvili.
"I learned from television this morning that the meeting had been thwarted and that it's we who have thwarted it. Let's leave alone this current of strange and aggressive remarks that was used today. I want to say that there was no agreement on any meeting today, not to mention about its time and venue," the president said at the meeting with the minority.
At the same time, Saakashvili confirmed that he was willing to meet with the premier but urges the latter to take this issue seriously. "I think it's time to stop flippant and incomprehensible maneuvers. A meeting should certainly take place, and this should be not a meeting for the sake of a meeting but a meeting to agree on something. We are prepared for this, and I hope the prime minister takes this seriously and that he properly and carefully prepares for this meeting," he said.
Saakashvili said he would be ready to meet with the premier on Monday morning.