Saakashvili has pledged to restore Tbilisi's control over the self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. His defense minister has also said Georgian troops will celebrate the New Year 2006 in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.
"It is clear now that Saakashvili's main goal is accession to NATO," Sergei Lavrov said. "He is hoping to resolve all other problems through this."
The Georgian leader, who came to power on the back of the 2003 "rose revolution", has set the goal of joining the North Atlantic alliance in 2008, which has found little support in neighboring Russia.
With Russian-Georgian relations at rock bottom over an espionage scandal last week and Moscow's subsequent imposition of a travel and mail ban, Lavrov said Tbilisi's attempts to engage mediators on the issue would continue to affect bilateral relations.
"This cannot contribute to the normalization of Russian-Georgian relations," he said.
Lavrov told the same news conference that the situation between Moscow and Tbilisi remained complicated after the Monday release of the four Russian officers accused of spying, and that Russia was not going to look on as Georgia stepped up its military preparations.
The foreign minister said money was illegally flowing to Georgia from Russia, which was one reason the mail ban had been imposed.
"We do not want to connive in [Georgia's] military preparations, we do not want to arm the Georgian people and indirectly assist those who are urging them to take up arms and go celebrating New Year to Tskhinvali on December 31," Lavrov said.
