49th round of Geneva International Discussions to be held
49th round of Geneva International Discussions to be held

The 49th round of the internationally mediated Geneva Discussions will be held today. The issues to be discussed at the 49th round of Geneva International Discussions were finalized and agreed at a technical meeting one day ahead of the talks at the UN building on October 8.

As Lasha Darsalia, Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Georgian delegation at the negotiations told journalists, the next round would be tough with acute issues.

“Besides non-fulfillment of the 6-point ceasefire agreement, the issues will include the developments across occupied territories and occupational line. This will be illegal ‘borderization’ and detentions as well as the latest events that turned the tense situation tenser,” Darsalia said.

At the 49th round of Geneva Discussions, the Russian delegation will be headed by Andrei Rudenko, new Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation who replaced Gregory Karasin on the post and will become engaged in the format of the internationally mediated Geneva talks for the first time.

Rudenko said that Geneva Discussions have resembled running around the closed circle lately and that he wished to make a push. “We want to keep hope that we will manage to do something at least with respect to de-escalation of the situation in the ‘borderline,’” he said.

According to Rudenko, Geneva Discussions serve as an important floor to talk about security issues in the region. He also claimed that he wanted to determine where reaching of compromises was possible.