TBILISI. April 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Three Russian diplomats will arrive in Tbilisi Tuesday afternoon to hold consultations on Abkhazia and South Ossetia and prepare a framework agreement.
"The delegation to Tbilisi is the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador at Large Mikhail Bocharnikov on the Abkhaz problem, Ambassador at Large and co-chairman of the Mixed Control Commission on the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian armed conflict of 1989-1992 Mikhail Mayorov, and Ambassador at Large Lev Mironov on the preparation of the framework agreement," press secretary of the Russian Embassy to Georgia Yevgeny Pavlov told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday.
He said that Bocharnikov would go to Sukhumi on Thursday. "Mironov and Mayorov will stay in the Georgian capital until Saturday." The Georgian party at the consultations will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Merab Antadze.
The framework agreement between Russia and Georgia is due to be signed this year. Its preparation began in 2000. Its first peer was signed in 1994 but was not ratified by Russia's State Duma.
The coming consultations will have on the agenda talks on Georgian-Abkhaz settlement, scheduled for late April in Geneva and Moscow.
As to consultations on South Ossetia, there will be respective meetings of co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission, the official said.