Tbilisi, Georgia, Nov 19, SPA -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annanheld talks with Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili onSaturday during a brief stopover from Islamabad. The two men met in a hotel in downtown Tbilisi beforeaddressing reporters. Annan flies out of the former Sovietrepublic immediately afterward. The talks were expected to touch on Georgia's tenserelations with two separatist regions that enjoy close tieswith neighboring Russia. Saakashvili, a pro-Western leader who was elected in early2004, has developed an alliance with the United States andsent troops to serve in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, according to a report of The Associated Press.--SPA1443 Local Time 1143 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/303781