Moscow: Disappointed with failure to obtain a NATO membership and secure Europe's support, Georgia has now adopted a back door diplomacy to restore its diplomatic ties with Russia.

Earlier in August, after five days war with Moscow and recognition of the independence of breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions, Tbilisi had broken its diplomatic ties with Russia.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is seeking ways to gradually restore ties with Russia after Tbilisi was denied access to the NATO membership action plan (MAP), Kommersant daily reported.

According to the daily, the head of the ethnic Georgians Union in Russia, Mikhail Khubutiya, had met with Saakashvili to discuss difficulties facing Georgians living in Russia in the absence of any diplomatic ties, was one of the mediators being used by the President.

"I think he is disappointed with failure to obtain a NATO membership program for Georgia and secure Europe's support. He seems to have realised there is a need for dialogue with Russia," Khubutiya was quoted as saying by Kommersant.

"Russia must be wiser and help him. The process is under way. We will see what will come out of this," he said declining to say whether he was authorised to hold the talks on Russia's behalf as well.

Source : PTI