Georgian opposition MP questions Saakashvili's border remarks

President Saakashvili said on May 12 after talks with his visiting Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Tbilisi that the two countries will soon reach an agreement on disputed border section of Davit Gareji, a complex of cave monasteries.

"Joint working groups will meet soon… Strategic heights should remain under Azerbaijani control, while a complex of monasteries has to remain on Georgian territory… I am sure we will be able to sign [a border delimitation] agreement very soon," Saakashvili told reporters.

But MP Zviad Dzidziguri said at a news conference on May 14 that it is impossible to separate “strategic heights” from the complex of monasteries.
 
"It is impossible just because part of monastery is located on those very same strategic heights. It is impossible to consider monastery and strategic heights separately," Dzidziguri said. Civil Georgia