Sergey Lavrov: It will be right to restore flights to Georgia

11:31, 26.09.2019

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov supports the resumption of direct flights from Russia to Georgia. He made his statement in an interview with Kommersant.

“It seems to me that it will be right to restore flights from Russia to Georgia after the majority of the Georgian population realized the counterproductive and provocative nature of the trick that took place in the Georgian parliament during the session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy,” – Lavrov said.

As he noted Russia had made a decision to abolish the visa regime with Georgia in the summer of 2019, but, according to him, tensions between the countries “pushed back” the process.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned Russia’s airlines from flying to Georgia, a day after a Russian lawmaker Sergey Gavrilov’s visit to the country prompted violent clashes between protesters and police in Tbilisi on June 20. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree imposing a temporary ban on flights, including commercial ones, from Russia to Georgia starting July 8.

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