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A delegation of Azerbaijan’s Sumgayit city will visit Georgia. Upon the invitation of the Mayor of the Rustavi city, Mamuka Chikovani, the delegation will visit the Rustavi city on Oct. 30-Nov. 2, the Sumgayit City Administration told Trend News on Oct 29. During the visit, the delegation will meet with …

Kutaisi will host the conference of the Association of Local Authorities of the South Caucasus on Oct. 29-30. According to the Bureau of the Council of Europe (CE) in Georgia, the two-day conference has been initiated by the Association of Local Democracy Agencies and the CE Congress of the Regional …

The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia spread the special statement over the yesterday’s detention of 16 Georgians on the administrative border of South Ossetia. “EUMM expresses concern about the recent incident in which 16 Georgian citizens from the village of Gremiskhevi were arrested by Russian Border Guards whilst cutting …

Talks on a durable peace are groundless until the EU observers allowed to fully control the situation on both sides of the line of division, Finish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told the Georgian journalists in Luxembourg.

The EU-Georgia Cooperation Council’s 10th meeting discussed issues related with cooperation within the bilateral, as well as multilateral formats of the Eastern Partnership; conflicts existing in the Southern Caucasus and other matters of regional interest.

Nothing will change in the South Caucasus region after opening borders between Turkey and Armenia, since the routes of energy supplies will not change without solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Georgia’s former minister of economy, a senior fellow at the Fund for Strategic and International Studies of Georgia, Professor …

Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is celebrating Tbilisoba – day of Tbilisi – on the weekend, an annual festival dating back to Oct. 28, 1979 when people started to celebrate the grape harvest. After 30 years, Tbilisoba has developed into a typical “Autumn celebration” marked by friendly smiles, live music and the …

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia, Namik Aliyev, met with the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, the press-release of the Azerbaijani Embassy to Tbilisi said. The sides discussed issues of further development of bilateral cooperation between two faiths, participation of Ilia II in celebration of Head of the Caucasus Muslims Spiritual …

Georgian Azerbaijanis are concerned about religious interference of the Georgian government. In the village of Fahrali of Bolnisi district and in several villages in Gardabani region of Georgia, densely populated by the Azerbaijanis, some non-governmental organizations in the country prevents the restoration of old mosques and the local authorities are …

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport proposed to extend the second international transport corridor within the CAREC from its passing through Georgia to Turkey and Europe at the eighth ministerial conference within the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC).