(SOFIA) - Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin said Friday that dialogue with Russia and not economic sanctions and isolation, would help resolve the Georgia crisis.

"It is important to tell Russia that what is happening in Georgia is absolutely unacceptable," Kalfin told Darik radio in an interview ahead of an emergency EU summit on the Georgia crisis next week.

"This could be done in dialogue with Russia. It is a common position that economic sanctions and isolation do not lead to good results," he added, calling for a special EU envoy to be posted in the region.

In talks with Russia, it was "necessary to have very clearly defined parameters about what is acceptable and what not," Kalfin also noted.

Russia has faced an avalanche of condemnation from the West after recognising earlier this week the independence of two rebel Georgian regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country holds the EU presidency, said Thursday that the EU was considering imposing sanctions on Russia.

But a source in the French president's office said Friday the European Union will not call for sanctions against Russia when it meets next week.

Fighting between Georgia and Russia erupted August 8 after the Georgian army launched an offensive to bring South Ossetia, which broke away in the early 1990s, back under government control.

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