Soviet states scheduled for Sunday. "We could not reach agreement on a timetable for withdrawal of the Russian bases... the Russian side is not proposing a timetable that would satisfy us," Zurabishvili said. Putin also waded into a war of words on Friday with the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, telling the French newspaper Le Figaro they collaborated with the Nazis and were now discriminating against their ethnic Russian population. Baltic nations want Moscow to apologise for five decades of Soviet occupation. On the Georgian bases, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it was ready to keep searching for a deal on the two bases and that the two countries would meet again soon. "The Russian side confirmed its firm willingness to reach mutually acceptable agreements, which will require the efforts of both sides," a ministry statement was quoted by Reuters as saying. --More 2324 Local Time 2024 GMT
