TBILISI. Feb 28 (Interfax) - The Georgian-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission for the delimitation and demarcation of the joint border will resume work after selecting new members on both sides, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.
"The intergovernmental commission has replaced several members appointed to various positions. As soon the selection and replacement process is completed on both sides, the commissions will be ready to resume work," the ministry's spokesperson Vladimer Konstantinidi told journalists on Wednesday.
The commission was set up 1996, he recalled.
"To date two-thirds of the border has been agreed on. The remaining part is being agreed on," Konstantinidi said.
Asked whether Georgia will take a principled position on the disputed territory which hosts the Georgian monastery complex David Gareja, the spokesman declined to comment, citing the confidential nature of the commission's work.
"However, a certain part of the historical monument still remains in a territory that has yet to be agreed on. The commission consists of a multitude of agencies, the leading one being the Foreign Ministry. Ours has been a principled position, both then and now, and we are doing everything for maximum protection of our interests," Konstantinidi said.
On Wednesday Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, who is in Baku for an official visit, expressed her hope that after the long years since it started work the intergovernmental commission will finally establish the joint border.