US Vice President Dick Cheney will discuss the situation in Georgia with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Premier Silvio Berlusconi during a visit to Rome next week, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
He will see Napolitano on Monday and Berlusconi the next day, the sources said.
Cheney will fly to Rome from Cernobbio, northern Italy, where on Saturday he will be one of the guest speakers at the prestigious Ambrosetti economic seminar.
The sources said that Cheney would have a chance to hold talks with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who will also address the Ambrosetti seminar on Saturday.
The US Vice President is currently on the first leg of a tour to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine.
Frattini is in Tbilisi and will fly to Moscow on Thursday, ahead of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on September 5-6 in Avignon, France.
The US has condemned Russian military intervention in Georgia last month but Moscow claims that Washington helped spark the crisis by supporting its ally Georgia.
Frattini has offered to hold an international conference in Rome to solve the Russia-Georgia crisis.
NATO, the United Nations, the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) would be invited to attend along with Russia and Georgia, Frattini said.
