Ivanishvili will visit Yerevan despite Georgia's Foreign Affairs Minister's "scandalous" statement

Georgia's Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's visit to Armenia will not be postponed due to the scandal surrounding the Foreign Minister Maya Panjikidze's statement, told reporters on Tuesday, the Prime Minister's press service told the journalists on Tuesday.

On January 17 Ivanishvili leaves for Yerevan to meet with the President and Prime Minister.

Yesterday there were rumors in Tbilisi that due to Panjikidze's statements made in Lithuania, Georgia's Prime Minister's visit to Armenia was on the brink of collapse.

According to the Azerbaijani media, in Vilnius Panjikidze stated that the regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was possible only within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Thus, the statement caused a negative reaction in Yerevan.