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Swiss or EU observers will be placed on Georgia’s internationally recognized border, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Tornike Gordadze said on Friday while commenting on Georgia’s consent to a Swiss proposal on the Georgian-Russian negotiations on Russia’s accession to the WTO.

Georgia said Thursday it has accepted a Swiss proposal that could open the way for Russia to join the World Trade Organization. Russia needs to reach individual agreements with all 153 members of the WTO, and the lack of progress in negotiations with Georgia has been the last significant stumbling …

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze comes at October 26-27 with an official visit to Azerbaijan. As stated by the Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze, during a visit planned meetings with Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian spiritual leaders will meet in Yerevan in late November, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II said at a meeting with the mediators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. The meeting will be held within the meeting of the presidium of the CIS inter-religious council.

The next round of Georgian-Russian WTO talks will be held on Oct.25, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a traditional briefing on Monday. Kalandadze stressed that Russia does not agree to the requirement on transparency of Georgia’s

Georgia attaches great importance to its relations with Azerbaijan and the high-level meetings allow to resolve issues of bilateral relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a traditional briefing on Monday. Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze is expected to pay an official visit to Baku on Oct.26-27.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is on an official visit to Russia on October 23-25, will meet on Monday with President Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the development of bilateral cooperation. “Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan are expected to discuss a broad variety of key issues in the bilateral cooperation, perspectives …

Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Uzbekistan with a residence in Moscow Zeljko Janjetovic handed over credentials addressed to Uzbek President Islam Karimov to the Foreign Ministry, the ministry reported. During the meeting at the ministry, the sides discussed the Uzbek-Bosnian

Russia and Georgia failed again to reach an agreement on Russia’s accession to the WTO at the next round of talks on Oct. 20, head of the Georgian delegation, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergi Kapanadze told Georgian journalists.

Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu says the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will expand to include Montenegro and Serbia. The two are the only states in the region which Moscow has free trade agreements with, the minister said in Podgorica on Wednesday. “This will be an …