MOSCOW. Oct 18 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia does not intend to adopt any sanctions against Georgia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told a Friday news conference at the Interfax main office.
"Ordinary people suffer from sanctions, and ordinary people are not responsible for some of the actions of their leaders," he said.
Sanctions "our not a method of our work," Ivanov said, adding that Russia continues an active political dialogue with Tbilisi and is trying to persuade its partners to drop their policy of supporting terrorists.
He denied reports that there are insurmountable barriers to normal neighborly relations between Russia and Georgia. "We don't have such obstacles. We have one obstacle that unfortunately has been clouding Russian-Georgian relations for the past few years - the problem of resisting international terrorism," he said.
Russia cannot reconcile itself with a situation where acts of terrorism and crimes are committed from a foreign territory, Ivanov said. "One should not flirt with terrorism. Terrorists who truly sow death in our territory today in the final account will do nothing good to the country from the territory of which they are operating, in this case Georgia," he said.
There is no longer any need to produce evidence that "international terrorists, not only Chechens, but also mercenaries from other countries" are in Georgia and commit crimes from there, Ivanov said.
In this context, he said that the faster the Georgian leadership begins to see the problem clearly, the faster Russia and Georgia will be able to resolve it together.
Ivanov said that during the recent CIS summit in Chisinau, President Vladimir Putin very frankly spoke about this to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze.
"If we resist terrorism together, if we put an end to this prospects," Ivanov said.