The 49th round of the internationally mediated Geneva Discussions will be held today. The issues to be discussed at the 49th round were finalized and agreed at a technical meeting one day ahead of the talks at the UN building on October 8.

As Lasha Darsalia, Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Georgian delegation said, this round would be tough with acute issues.

“Besides non-fulfillment of the 6-point ceasefire agreement, the issues will include the developments across occupied territories and occupational line. This will be illegal ‘borderization’ and detentions as well as the latest events that turned the tense situation tenser”, - said Darsalia.

At the 49th round of Geneva Discussions, the Russian delegation will be headed by Andrei Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russia who replaced Gregory Karasin and will become engaged in the format of the internationally mediated Geneva talks for the first time.

Rudenko said that Geneva Talks have resembled running around the closed circle lately and that he wished to make a push. “We want to keep hope that we will manage to do something at least with respect to de-escalation of the situation in the ‘borderline”, - added the diplomat.

According to Rudenko, Geneva Discussions serve as an important floor to talk about security issues in the region. He also claimed that he wanted to determine where reaching of compromises was possible.

Zviad Zviadadze, the Head of the Department of the Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality, said that the 49th round of the Geneva International Discussions should answer questions related to the problems in the villages of Chorchana and Akhalgori.

"Unfortunately, we cannot say that we have made any special and tangible progress during this time in the international discourses of Geneva, but this is the format, the only place where we speak directly to the Russian Federation, which exercises control over our occupied territories”- said Zviad Zviadaze.