Lavrov hopes for a quick resumption of direct flights with Georgia
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope that direct flights between Russia and Georgia would soon be resumed. He spoke about this on press conferences.
“I am glad that we are developing contacts with people from Georgia, last year Georgia’s GDP grew by 10%, largely due to tourism and trade relations with the Russian Federation. I hope that we will soon be able to resume direct flights,” the minister said.
Lavrov stressed that Georgia, like many other countries, is under pressure from the West to join the sanctions against Russia, but Tbilisi’s ability to resist this pressure, looking after its own interests, is respected.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia in June 2019. The ban also applies to Georgian carriers. The reason was the rallies near the building of the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi, which began after State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov took the chair of the speaker of parliament during the International Assembly of Orthodoxy.
In December 2022, Denis Gonchar, Director of the Fourth Department of the CIS countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation allowed the resumption of direct communication with Georgia and visa liberalization in respect of its citizens, if the “prerequisites necessary for this” are formed, which, according to him, are well known to Tbilisi.
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