TBILISI. Nov 28 (Interfax) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said he will never agree to negotiate with Moscow if it does not withdraw its recognition of Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's independence.

"We are holding negotiations with Russia in Geneva, but the Russian leadership should understand that it can talk with Georgia only as an integrated entity, and in this case we will have excellent relations,"

Saakashvili told members of an ad hoc parliamentary commission investigating the August crisis in the Caucasus on Friday.

"In my view, we need to continue striving for the European structures and for Europe, and our accomplishments on this route will also improve our relations with Russia. But we should shake hands at (the river) Psou (a border between Abkhazia and Russia), not at (the river) Inguri (the border between Georgia and Abkhazia)," he said.

Saakashvili recalled the 2004 events in Ajaria, when Aslan Abashidze, the head of the Ajarian autonomous republic, was dislodged.

"I called (then Russian President Vladimir) Putin and thanked him for restraint during the events in Ajaria," Saakashvili said. Putin in response "said that he did help us that time but that I should not expect any more gifts from him in South Ossetia and Abkhazia," he said.

Moscow's attitude toward Tbilisi worsened after the Georgian leadership actively supported the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Saakashvili said.

"These disagreements between our countries are fundamental, and there is nothing personal here. We will not abandon our independence and our foreign political choice," he said.

"We offered Russia to be guarantors of the separatist republics' autonomy, and everyone would have been glad in this case, but they didn't agree with us," he said.

"Russia will soon have to resign itself to a free Georgia, just as it resigned itself to the loss of Poland, Finland, and so on," he said.

"Our cultures and peoples are drifting apart, although, given the existing respect between our peoples, the situation could change today," he said.