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24 September 2002 - 14:34 AMT

RUSSIAN STATE DUMA AND FEDERATION COUNCIL HEADS BRIEFED ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ON RUSSIAN POSITION TOWARDS GEORGIA

Russian does not plan to infringe on the territorial integrity of Georgia or threaten the security of this county: the task is the withdrawal of terrorists from the Pankisi gorge, which will assist in the struggle against international terrorism. The massages of the RF State Duma speaker Gennady Seleznev and Federation Council chair Sergey Mironov to Armenian parliament head Armenian Khachatrian state that. Russian Ambassador to Armenian Anatoly Dryukov delivered he messages to the RA NA speaker. The messages also state that these issues will be discussed at the meeting of the presidents of Russia and Georgia as well as in Tbilisi, at the coming meeting of the «Caucasian Four» – the speakers of the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia. The authors of the massages express hope for that the positive way out will be found out.