Tbilisi. Processes in Ukraine are continuation of events in August 2008 in Georgia, head of the Georgian state Giorgi Margvelashvili stated at the opening of the Ambassadorial in Tbilisi on Monday, August 4.
"We consider processes in Ukraine in 2014 are direct continuation of events in 2008. It is important that our partners should be aware of this position, that the process launched in 2008 has been really continued in 2014 and Georgia is for stabilization of these processes, settlement of them, their transference to the peaceful context", Margvelashvili stressed.
Margvelaqshvili noted that Georgia "does everything for normalization of relations with Russia.
"Georgia makes efforts to transfer relations with Russia into the peaceful, constructive context. I aim my efforts at changing paradigm of the sphere of values and developing relations in the context of economic, regional cooperation", Margvelashvili noted.
According to him, during last two years after the Georgian Dream coalition had come to power, Georgia demonstrated its wish to have good neighborhood relations with Russia. At the same time "recognition of Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty is a key starting point of these good neighborhood relations".
Tbilisi broke off diplomatic relations with Russia after Moscow had recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in August 2008. In Georgia Abkhazia and South Ossetia have the occupied territories status. Representatives of the new government, who had come to power according to results of 2012 parliamentary elections, named normalization of relations with Russia to be one of the main priorities of the country's foreign policy, but not at expense of the country's territorial integrity.
In November 2012, Georgian ex-Ambassador to RF and NATO, Zurab Abashidz, was appointed Georgian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for relations with RF.
Georgian-Russian relations have been being normalized since that time - Georgian wine, mineral water and agricultural products have returned to the Russian market.