MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian and Georgian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Saakashvili held a telephone conversation on Sunday, Putin's press secretary Alexei Gromov told Interfax.
During the conversation, Saakashvili "expressed his gratitude to Russia for its contribution to settling problems in Georgia and Transcaucasia as a whole," Gromov said.
Putin told Saakashvili that he welcomes the success in finding a political solution to the dispute surrounding the autonomous republic of Ajaria.