NEW YORK. Sept 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has said that Russia is not interested in artificially aggravating relations with Georgia, and if Georgia does away with terrorist bases on its territory, the problem in bilateral relations will be removed.
"Russia is not interested in artificially worsening relations with Georgia and by no means intends to encroach on the sovereignty continue to recognize," he told the press in New York on Monday.
"If the Georgian side promptly does away with rebel and terrorist bases on its territory, in particular in the Pankisi Gorge, destroys and not simply transfers them to a different place, then there will be no grounds for the problem that now exists in our relations," the minister said.