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Azerbaijan and Georgia should expand cooperation in mutual recognition of place names. It was mentioned at a meeting between the Azerbaijani State Standardization, Metrology and Patents Committee Chairman Ramiz Hasanov and Georgian National Intellectual Property Center Chairman (“Sakpatenti”) Irakli Gvaladze and Deputy Chairman Ekaterine Egutia.

The head of the European office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Daniel Endres will visit Georgia from Jan 15-20. The visit takes place at the invitation of Georgian Minister for the IDPs and refugees Koba Subeliani. The invitation was sent immediately after Endres’s appointment as a director.

Pádraig Murphy has been appointed as new co-chairman of Geneva talks on tension prevention in Georgia from the OSCE. As the Georgian Foreign Ministry said, new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister

The Georgian Parliament approved the candidacies of new ambassadors to Greece and Romania on Tuesday. President of Georgia introduced his nominees David Bakradze to Greece and Ilia Giorgadze to Romania to the parliament’s approval. The candidates were interviewed in the committees of the legislative body before they pass approval at …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a raft of political and military sanctions after French lawmakers adopted a bill criminalising denial of Armenian genocide. Turkey will recall its ambassador from Paris and suspend mutual political visits as well as joint military projects, including joint exercises, said Erdogan.

The exact date of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Georgia has not determined yet, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary on Europe and Eurasia Eric Rubin said at the briefing in Tbilisi on Friday.

The EU-Russia summit in Brussels has started. The meeting is attended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and European Commission (EC) President Jase Manuel Barroso. There will be a joint press conference after the talks.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may introduce a single currency in the future within the Eurasian Economic Union between the three former Soviet republics, according to Russian

The document on prevention of tension in the Caucasus, drawn up by the co-chairs of Geneva Talks, contains proposals on reaching an agreement on the issue; within document framework, all parties, including Russia, agreed to sign

Next, the 18th round of discussions on security in the Caucasus will be held in Geneva on Dec. 14. A Georgian delegation headed by the Deputy Foreign Minister Sergi Kapanadze is already there. The negotiations in Geneva format on prevention of tension in the Caucasus will be held with the …