"If all issues on the [Russian-Georgian] agenda are resolved bilaterally, we will be ready to take this serious step," Gela Bezhuashvili, currently heading a Georgian delegation in Kiev, said. "We will take this step and adopt a document on the non-deployment of foreign military bases in Georgia with no bilateral obligations."
This is the only aspect of the Russian-Georgian framework agreement on friendship and cooperation that remains unsettled, he added.
Georgian MP Konstantin Gabashvili said Moscow was concerned about the possible deployment of NATO bases in Georgia following the withdrawal of Russian bases to be completed in 2008.
"We have already told the Russian side that no foreign military bases will be deployed in Georgia," Gabashvili said, adding that the signing of the framework agreement would improve bilateral relations.
