The Georgian leader continues his aggressive propaganda about how the events developed in August 2008, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday following talks with the Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan in Moscow.
He said the relations in energy, transport and humanitarian spheres have not been severed between the two countries.
"We are also ready to develop trade relations, as the president said. Of course, observing existing norms and rules, without any politicization," RIA Novosti quoted Lavrov as saying.
"I can assure you that even those states whose officials constantly and officially talk about the need to respect Georgia's territorial integrity and express a position of sympathy about the current regime in public are well aware of the matter in private talks. They know all and say what they have to say based on the so-called political expedience," Lavrov said.
He also stressed that there is not a single serious politician in the West who does not know how the 2008 events commenced.
Military actions were launched in the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia in August 2008. Georgian troops entered Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia and later Russian troops occupied the city and drove the Georgian military back to Georgia. Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on Aug. 26 and established diplomatic relations with them on Sept. 9, 2008.