Georgia, Tbilisi, Aug. 18 / Trend , N.Kirtzkhalia/
Georgian and foreign experts do not rule out the possibility of Georgian-Russian negotiations in the UN General Assembly, scheduled for September.
The head of the Georgian Security Analysis Center, David Smith said that mediating countries may attempt to organize an audience of Presidents Saakashvili and Medvedev in New York.
The two leaders will participate in the meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Smith said it is expected to organize such meetings during the assembly. The expert believes that it will be good for Georgia, if French President Nicolas Sarkozy will directly say to Medvedev that Russia does not fulfill the ceasefire agreement, signed in 2008. "If the U.S. leader will hold such a position, it will be possible to talk about the first step taken on the direction of resolving the conflict," he said.
Georgian Expert Ramaz Sakvarelidze considers the meeting of the two leaders as less expected. "It would be difficult for the Russian President, who has not recently spoken favorably of his Georgian counterpart, at a time when Mikhail Saakashvili has not used any rough expressions about Medvedev," he said.
Expert Soso Tsintsadze believes that Russia would not negotiate, because it "is so deeply stuck in the processes that it cannot retreat and save face, and Moscow itself driven itself into a corner, which does not have a way out."
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