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GEORGIA Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister, David Jalaganiya and Assistant to the Georgian honorary council in the Atlanta city, Scott Henwood held a meeting at the Georgian foreign Ministry. The meeting mulled cooperation between Georgia and the U.S state of Georgia, as well as the project on development of agrarian industry …

GEORGIA The next five-sided meeting on incident prevention will be held in the village of Ergneti in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone on September 3. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m., the head of the Analytical Department of the Georgian Interior Ministry, Shota Utiashvili, said. It is being held in …

GEORGIA The German Bundeswehr’s delegation, headed by Colonel Claus Dieter Blisom, is on a visit in Georgia and the main purpose of the visit is integration into a unified system of the NATO codification system, the Georgian Defense Ministry reported. Today, codification officers of the Logistic Center shared their experience …

GEORGIA The Georgian Deputy Prime Minister, Giorgi Baramidze has left for Montenegro to pay a working visit. Baramidze will meet with Prime Minister of Montenegro, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Defense and Foreign Affairs. In the history of Georgia and Montenegro, this is the first visit of this kind. …

GEORGIA The Georgian Foreign Ministry has stated its protest against Russia’s decision on protection of ships from detention by the Georgian authorities in the “Abkhazian territorial waters”. Russia decided that the Coast Guard Service of Russia together with the Abkhazian border guards will ensure the safety of those vessels that …

GEORGIA Georgian Foreign Minister, Grigol Vashadze will visit Armenia on Sep.4-5. The visit will take place as a part of the bilateral agreement, Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department, David Jalaganiya, said at the traditional Monday briefing on Aug.31. Vashadze will meet with his Armenian counterpart, Edvard Nalbandyan during …

GEORGIA The negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Georgia on visa facilitation and readmission are successful, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister, David Jalaganiya said at a traditional meeting on Aug. 31. He said during the third round of the talks, held last week in Brussels, the parties agreed texts for …

RUSSIA Russia has vowed to defend the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a year after acknowledging their independence from Georgia. On Wednesday, people celebrated public holidays in the separatist regions to mark the anniversary. The event coincided with the opening of 160Km natural gas pipeline linking Russia directly …

GEORGIA Georgia on Thursday protested plans by its breakaway Abkhazia region to transfer control of the railway in the Black Sea territory to Russia, a move it said amounted to “robbery.” Abkhazia says the Russian railway authority will provide “reconstruction and rehabilitation” for the stretch of line running along the …

RUSSIA Russia will never reverse its decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as states independent of Georgia, President Dmitry Medvedev has said, the anniversary of the decision. The Kremlin recognized the Moscow-backed regions as independent on August 26 of last year, weeks after Russian forces crushed a Georgian attempt …