As far as he can judge by personal impression, underlying the pointed PR campaign is either Georgian negotiators' weak stance or Georgia being not ready to tackle at due pace the problems stocked up, remarked the informant.
Despite all that, Moscow attaches major importance to Mr. Lavrov's visit-it will help not merely take stock of each other's stances at a high political level, and take the edge off emotions seething in Tbilisi, but see actual prospects for progress of Russian-Georgian relations.
Mr. Lavrov intends to advance more initiatives for settling a deadline to withdraw Russian military bases in Georgia, which are to come as embryos of future anti-terror centers, added our interviewee.
Sergei Lavrov looks forward to a fruitful visit, he said to the media upon arrival in Tbilisi, as Novosti/Georgia news agency reports.
Mr. Lavrov referred to practical proposals he had received shortly before the visit from Salome Zurabishvili, his Georgian counterpart, to make their detailed preliminary study.
"I expect a constructive dialogue in Tbilisi," he stressed. "We have agreed for practice-oriented talks on all issues there are to settle. We have practical proposals on all topics we are to coordinate."
Merab Antadze, the host country's Deputy Foreign Minister, met Mr. Lavrov at the Tbilisi airport.
