MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - The first Russian deputy foreign minister said Thursday that Moscow had to revise its relations with Georgia.
"We should revise our approaches," Valery Loshchinin said, commenting on the Georgian parliament's newly adopted resolution on the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The resolution called for a suspension of Russian peacekeepers' mandates in the two regions and accused them of siding with local separatists.
"I do not mean reassessing our policy," Loshchinin said. "It seeks to build good relations."
He said Russia hoped for progress in relations with Georgia after the resolution of a key bilateral problem, the pullout of Russian military bases. The adoption of the resolution on Abkhazia and South Ossetia in such a favorable atmosphere was "an unreasoned and irresponsible decision of Georgia," Loshchinin added.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Georgia was unfolding an anti-Russian campaign to disgrace the Russian peacekeeping mission.
"Tbilisi is currently making no statements on the peaceful resolution of the [South Ossetian and Abkhazian] conflicts," the ministry said.
In the statement, the ministry also accused Georgia of being confrontational and an instigator in the conflict.
"This is a dangerous path fraught with serious consequences," the ministry said.
