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Relations between Georgia and Azerbaijan are strengthening year by year, Georgian parliament speaker David Bakradze said. “Our interests are interdependent. Azerbaijan is a country with which Georgia will develop strategic and friendly relations,” he said, Novosti Azerbaijan reported.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili said the Turkish-proposed Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform has acquired no “clear shape” yet and consultations were on their “very early stage.” “We always welcome multilateral mechanisms,” Saakashvili said while speaking at a news conference on a sideline of a high-profile Brussels Forum late on March …

MOSCOW- Russia will not back away from its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in order to begin a dialogue on relations with Georgia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Davaid Bakradze, a spokesman for the Georgian parliament, said on Thursday that Tbilisi was ready to begin a dialogue …

TBILISI – Georgia plans to build a high voltage electricity line to Turkey that will increase its exporting capacity tenfold, according to Sulkhan Zumburidze, director of the state power dispatcher Georgian State Electrosystem. Zumburidze told Reuters on Thursday that the project will cost 220 million euros to complete, and will …

Sergeant Alexander Glukhov disappeared in January from his unit in breakaway South Ossetia and said he wanted asylum in Georgia. A Russian soldier who upset Moscow by leaving his unit and turning up in Georgia has been charged with desertion, Russian prosecutors said on Tuesday, while Tbilisi said it had …

Georgian Minister of Agriculture Bakur Kvezereli said Wednesday the most affordable agricultural land in the region is actually in Georgia. “One hectare (10,000 square metres) of agricultural land sells for 350-1000 USD in Georgia. We expect Turkish entrepreneurs to purchase land in Georgia,” Kvezereli said.

UNITED NATIONS – Georgia’s new permanent representative to the United Nations, Alexander Lomaya, has presented his credentials to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Lomaya has been in New York since the beginning of February, but until Tuesday’s official ceremony did not have the right to vote in the UN as a …

A separatist official said the economic slump was slowing the reconstruction effort. South Ossetia’s separatist administration said on Monday Russia was failing to honour a pledge to spend millions of dollars repairing the devastation from last year’s war in the breakaway Georgian region. A separatist official said the economic slump …

MOSCOW – RUSSIA on Tuesday agreed to give $226 million dollars (114 million euros) of aid to two rebel regions of Georgia. Moscow will give 2.36 billion rubles (52 million euros) to Abkhazia and 2.8 billion rubles to South Ossetia. 

TBILISI, March 17 –Georgian authorities express protest against military exercises, underway in Abkhazia on March 17-18, Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili told reporters on Tuesday. “The presence of Abkhazian armed forces of such a high numerical strength in the administrative border area is alarming,” he said.