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The NATO follows its position and does not intend to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, NATO Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simmons said after a meeting in the Georgian Foreign Ministry on October 9. Simmons met with Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Bokeria and discussed …

A separate item on the agenda is the continuation of the multilateral cooperation between Georgia and the CIS following this country’s withdrawal from the organization. The Meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council will take place in Chisinau on Thursday, October 8. Ministers from the 11 member states of the …

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Tuesday his country is ready to hold talks and cooperate with Russia and is unwilling to see a fresh military conflict.   The military attacks Georgia launched last August against Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, was legitimate, Saakashvili said. 

Russia is worried over the recent statements of the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha suggesting that the unification of the Albanian countries (including Kosovo) should take place as soon as possible. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed Moscow’s concern over Berisha statements to his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic, who is …

NATO days in Georgia were solemnly established in the Courtyard Marriott hotel. NATO information center organized these days. The alliance’s delegation will visit Georgia due to these meetings. NATO Secretary General’s special representative Robert Simmons will join these meetings.

On Oct. 6, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament David Bakradze and Danish Foreign Minister, Peer Sting Mouller discussed the situation in the occupied territories and the process of conflict resolution at a meeting.

The Laborites believe that based on the conclusion by Tagliavini’s commission, the Georgian President should be recognized as a war criminal and appear before the Hague Tribunal, the International Secretary of the Labor Party, Nestan Kirtadze said at anews conference on Oct. 5. She said the commission had caught Saakashvili …

“The agenda includes the issue of strengthening the mandate of the EU monitoring mission in Georgia, but I cannot say to you anything more about it today,” the Danish Foreign Minister, Per Stig Moeller said at a news conference held jointly with his Georgian counterpart, Grigol Vashadze in Tbilisi. He …

Georgia welcomes readiness of all countries, especially friendly Ukraine to act as mediator between Moscow and Tbilisi, Georgian foreign minister Grigol Vashadze said at a press-conference on October 5. “The necessity in the talks with Russia will occur sooner or later but with democratic and free Russia that feels responsibility …

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is surprised at inconsistency of the Tagliavini Commission. Recognizing the presence of Russia’s regular troops in the Georgian territory, particularly in the Tskhinvali region, the commission still did not name Russia as the aggressor, Saakashvili added. “The Commission recognized that the foreign country’s armed forces have …