(9 Oct 2006)
1. Wide of interior of airport terminal
2. Wide of crowd meeting passengers
3. Mid of women
4. Mid of mother with child
5. Close up of same
6. Mid of terminal display
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Anna, Russian citizen:
"It is a pity that they load their own people in a cargo plane. It is very insulting for the great power that Russia is. Maybe I am wrong but it is my personal opinion."
8. Mid of people in the airport
9. Wide of interior of airport terminal
10. Wide of the State Chancellery in Tbilisi
11. Wide of the Georgian President Saakashvili meeting with the members of Parliament
12. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia:
"I am ready to meet President Putin at any time. I have offered him this numerous times, and if he agrees to meet today, I am ready to meet him today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Anyone from our government - the Prime Minister or Foreign Minister is ready to resume talks on the important issues concerning bilateral relations. But at the same time we have told them that it is disgusting when children are kicked out of schools, it is disgusting when people are deported by the cargo planes."
13. Cut away of audience
14. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia:
"With their actions our partners (Russians) are loosing respect not only in our eyes, but in the eyes of normal countries and people. I am afraid they are losing much and it is not good."
15. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE
Georgian aviation officials postponed the landing of two Russian planes on Monday after President Mikhail Saakashvili ordered the capital's airport not to receive cargo planes carrying Georgian refugees.
The planes were also due to have taken nearly 270 Russian citizens out of Georgia on Monday, but aviation officials said the flights would be delayed "for technical reasons" until Tuesday.
The Tbilisi airport said in a press release that the delay was due in part to the repaving of the runways.
A spokesman for Russia's Federal Migration Service denied that use of the cargo planes violated Georgians' rights because they were outfitted with seats and other amenities. The IL-76 cargo planes "meet all the requirements for such transportation," the Interfax news agency quoted Konstantin Poltoranin as saying.
But some Russian citizens waiting to leave Georgia for Russia were critical of the planes that they too would be expected to travel in.
"It is a pity that they load their own people in a cargo plane. It is very insulting for the great power that Russia is." said one Russian citizen at Tbilisi airport.
Georgia recently arrested four Russian military officers, accusing them of espionage, and Moscow retaliated with a transport blockade that banned all flights to Georgia except for Ministry of Emergency Situations planes, which have been used to transport Georgian deportees and bring home Russian citizens stranded in Georgia.
Russian officials have said the sanctions will continue until Georgia ends what Moscow calls its "anti-Russian" behaviour, but they have not indicated what specific actions they want Tbilisi to take.
Russia had been due to send 150 more alleged illegal migrants home to Georgia on Monday, but Saakashvili said the capital's airport would no longer accept the cargo planes.
In spite of his evident anger over Russia's deportation of Georgian citizens, Saakashvili sent the first signal of willingness to negotiate following the latest outbreak of tensions.
Georgia also accuses Moscow of backing two breakaway Georgian provinces an allegation Russia denies.
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