GENEVA (AFP) -- Participants at the Russian-Georgian talks in Geneva determined that there are risks of a dangerous escalation on the ground, with Tbilisi threatening to walk away from future discussions if Moscow refuses to halt its “terror campaign.”

The “participants reviewed the security situation on the ground, which was assessed as stable, but unpredictable, with a potential for dangerous escalation due to highly worrying developments and incidents,” said Pierre Morel, EU mediator of the discussion.
He noted that the situation was stable enough for “daily movements of persons which go by the hundreds.”
Yet at the same time, over recent months, there have been explosions and shootings on the ground.
“Such a level of casualty after 2.5 years of intensive work is a kind of warning signal,” said Morel.
While participants agreed to meet again in October, Georgia's head of delegation Giorgi Bokeria warned that Tbilisi would walk away from future talks if the situation fails to improve.
“Otherwise I can't foresee any talks with the state party sponsoring state terrorism, including Geneva talks as they are now,” he noted.
“This campaign of explosions done in a very transparent way by Russian security officers is bringing the situation to a difficult level, we can't have a discussion with a party that continues to escalate a terror campaign,” he stressed.
The latest round of talks between Russia and Georgia are taking place just a day after Tbilisi claimed to have foiled an attempt by Moscow to bomb a NATO office.
Police said they had arrested a man carrying explosives who was ordered by a Russian security official and police in South Ossetia to target the NATO liaison office, in what was said to be the second thwarted attack on Georgian soil in the past week.
The fresh claims against Moscow came swiftly after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an unannounced visit Thursday to the rebel Georgian region of Abkhazia for the funeral of its leader Sergei Bagapsh, causing anger in Tbilisi. Georgians and Russians have been meeting regularly since 2008 in Geneva in a bid to prevent another flare-up of violence over the Georgian breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Russia recognized the two rebel regions as independent after the brief 2008 war between Moscow and Tbilisi, a move condemned by Georgia's Western allies and only followed by a handful of other states.