BOCHAROV RUCHEI, Russia/ TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia denied on Thursday that President Georgy Margvelashvili would travel to Sochi for the Olympic Games after the Kremlin said he could meet Russia's Vladimir Putin there in what would be the neighbours' first top encounter since a 2008 war.
"The Georgian official delegation will not attend the Olympic Games in Sochi," Vano Machavariani, the Georgian president's foreign policy adviser, told Reuters. "Georgia will be represented in Sochi by our sportsmen and representatives of the Georgian Olympic Committee," he said.
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