He stressed that Moscow never sought to worsen relations with Tbilisi.
It was the Georgian leadership under Mikhail Saakashvili that broke off diplomatic relations and tried in every way to limit economic cooperation, the minister noted, but then “the economy took its toll.”
“I repeat once again, this is all due to the fact that our Western colleagues, first of all, the United States, are trying in every way to tear our neighbors away from the Russian Federation,” said Lavrov.
The full version of the interview is in the RT material.
Earlier, Lavrov called Georgia an example of the consequences of Western geopolitical engineering.