Russia hopes that Georgia will review its position on participation in the regional format 3+3, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.

"Georgia has so far refused [to work in this format] until the last moment, but we hope that it will reconsider its position," the Deputy Foreign Minister said, responding to a related question.

Earlier, the initiative of the six-party format of cooperation on Karabakh and the issue of unblocking economic and transport communications in the South Caucasus was put forward by Azerbaijani and Turkish leaders Ilham Aliyev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Russia and Iran welcomed this idea; Georgia said it had no plans to participate in this regional initiative, but offered its own format for talks between Baku and Yerevan to maintain peace. On 10 December, the first meeting of the regional 3+3 consultative platform at the level of deputy foreign ministers was held in Moscow.