By the BBC's Chloe Arnold in Baku

Nuclear experts begin a series of meetings in Georgia on Wednesday to discuss ways of making safe abandoned radioactive material left over from the Soviet era.

On Sunday, a team of specialists retrieved two devices emitting lethal levels of radiation from a remote forest in the west of the country.

The discovery of two highly radioactive cylinders in woods near the border with Russia has sparked fears there may be others scattered across remote areas of Georgia.

The experts - from the United States, Russia, France, Germany and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - are meeting Georgian officials to look at ways of finding the devices and storing them in a safe and secure location.

'Dirty bomb fears'

On Sunday, a team of specialists began the painstaking removal of the cylinders from snow-bound woods near the breakaway region of Abkhazia.