Georgian President Receives Turkish Parliamentary E.U. Adjustment Commission Chairman

TBILISI - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili received on Saturday Turkish Parliamentary European Union (EU) Adjustment Commission Chairman Yasar Yakis and former State Minister Refaeddin Sahin.
Yakis and Sahin are holding meetings in Georgian capital Tbilisi on behalf of Turkish government.
Saakashvili, Yakis and Sahin took up Turkish-Georgian relations and tension between Georgia and Adzharia.
Yakis and Sahin are expected to meet with Georgian Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze later in the day.
Earlier in the day, Yakis and Sahin met with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.
Turkey was pleased with peaceful solution of tension between Georgia and Adzharia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Yakis and Sahin are holding meetings in Tbilisi and Batumi on March 19 and 21 in order to express Turkey's pleasure with peaceful settlement of the crisis between Georgia and Adzharia and exchange views about measures to be taken between two sides to prevent reoccurrence of such a tension in the future.
(BRC) 20.03.2004