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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reiterated Moscow’s negative stance on the possibility of weapons supplies to Georgia from abroad. “I have repeatedly commented on the issue of Georgia’s rearmament,” the foreign minister said. “I proceed from the fact that those who supplied Saakashvili’s regime with arms that were …

Next week, US Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine and Georgia. According to US Vice President’s Counselor, Tony Blinken, Joe Biden will deliver statements focusing on relations between Ukraine and Georgia in Kiev and Tbilisi. US Vice President has scheduled meetings with Ukrainian and Georgian leaders, as well as …

TBILISI Georgian opposition leader and former U.N. ambassador Irakly Alasania launched his own political party on Thursday, saying long-standing protests demanding the Georgian president’s resignation were not in vain.

SUKHUMI Nearly a year after Georgia’s war with Russia, the leader of Georgia’s biggest rebel region is determined Tbilisi will never rule his land again.Shrugging off international calls for Georgia’s territorial integrity to be respected, de facto Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh told Reuters in an interview that the West needed …

A working meeting on motor traffic from Europe to Afghanistan via the Caucasus took place in Tbilisi on Friday in the attendance of Georgian Economic Development Minister Lasha Zhvania, European experts, representatives of international organizations and the U.S. Department of Commerce. 

The American guided missile destroyer USS Stout has dropped anchor off the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi to take part naval training exercises with Georgian coastguards and Turkish ships. 

WASHINGTON Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia has not contributed to promoting stability following last year’s brief war, the US State Department said Tuesday.

The last remaining United Nations observers in Georgia leave their posts on Wednesday, a month after their mandate expired.The UN Security Council failed to extend the mission of the 130 observers last month, due to a Russian veto. Last August, Russia backed Abkhazia’s declaration of independence from Georgia. But no …

MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said his country would develop economic and defense cooperation with Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. 

Military observers and police of what was the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) will leave Abkhazia at the end of next week, as the operation proceeds with its liquidation, the world body announced today.