I would like to hope that the resumption of air traffic is a matter of the near future, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the newspaper TRUD.

“I would like to hope that the resumption of air traffic is a matter of the near future. We are closely monitoring the state of affairs in Georgia. Of course, we are waiting for a general normalization of the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the region and in the world, opening of regular flights to other destinations.

I also hope that the political dialogue between Georgia and Russia, which had been suspended due to a pandemic, would be resumed in the Karasin-Abashidze format.

Russia has always valued friendly ties with the Georgian people, with whom we have lived in a single state under different names for more than one century”, - concluded Russian Foreign Minister.