Russia: Georgian, Russian lawmakers discuss ways to ease tensions

M/S Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev meeting Alliance of Patriots of Georgia in Moscow
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SOT, Konstantin Kosachev, Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs (Russian): "We are sincerely upset and disappointed [by the recent events] as after many years of, maybe, not so noticeable but painstaking and consistent work of famous politicians, diplomats and other specialists from both sides, who advocate for the advancing of bilateral relations, we gradually, in small steps, have overcome disagreements, found the possibility of creating the environment for good communication between people living in our countries through the simplification of visa procedures, creating facilities for the recovery of trade and economic relations, renewal of air services."
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SOT, Konstantin Kosachev. Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs (Russian): "After last month's events, including those that took place near the Georgian parliament and on Georgian TV, all these things set back our relations, even in that status we remained them during last years, evidently, to its initial point dramatically."
M/S The Alliance of Patriots of Georgia lawmakers
SOT, Konstantin Kosachev. Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs (Russian): "Here we, analysing the current situation, cannot shake the feeling that these are other people’s scenarios, which are being imposed to both of our sides and peoples by radical Georgian forces and external ones that stands for it. It seems to me that it is important to separate one thing from another, to understand what is harmful and absolutely unacceptable for our relations."
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SOT, Giorgi Lomia, the head of the Parliamentary Faction 'The Patriots of Georgia': "Our goal, the aim of our visit here, is to be promotive of our peaceful cooperation, as partners, friends, brothers. This is the only goal. No one needs war, no one needs sanctions or confrontation. I mean that a normal person does not need any of this."
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Chair of Russian Federation Council's Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev held negotiations with Georgian opposition lawmakers in Moscow on Monday to discuss the current tensions in bilateral relations between the two countries.
Kosachev told the opposition Alliance of Patriots of Georgia senators that Moscow is "upset and disappointed" by the recent events.
Head of the Georgian delegation, Giorgi Lomia, stated that the visit's aim was to "to be promotive of our peaceful cooperation, as partners, friends, brothers. This is the only goal. No one needs war, no one needs sanctions or confrontation."
The tensions began after Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov addressed the audience from the seat of the Georgian parliamentary speaker during the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy on June 20.
On June 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending flights to Georgia by Russian airlines starting from July 8, following the anti-government protests in Tbilisi.