Prime Ministers Hovik Abrahamian of Armenia and Irakli Gharibashvili of Georgia met in Batumi over the weekend for talks which their offices said focused on bilateral economic ties.
Abrahamian travelled to the Georgian Black Sea city two weeks after official Tbilisi protested against Armenian parliament speaker Galust Sahakian's meeting with a leader of South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region.
Sahakian and Anatoly Bibilov met early this month during their separate visits to Nagorno-Karabakh. Sahakian downplayed their short conversation as "private" and impromptu.
The explanation did not satisfy the Georgian government, which condemned the contact with the representative of what it regards as an "occupational regime" installed by Russia. The Armenian ambassador in Tbilisi was summoned to the Georgian Foreign Ministry and warned of "damage to bilateral relations" on May 4.
Armenian News
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