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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 …

Representatives of Georgia and Russia will hold another round of negotiations under the mediation of Switzerland on Russia’s accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on Thursday, Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergi Kapanadze said.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will kick off the 8th OSCE South Caucasus media conference in Tbilisi Marriott Hotel that will bring together over 70 journalists, representatives of non-governmental media organizations and officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The participants of the 2-day event will …

Georgia does not intend to join the new Eurasian alliance and common customs space created by the CIS countries, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said at a press conference after his meeting with Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet in Tbilisi on Wednesday.

Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva will today leave for Sofia to observe the presidential elections to be held in Bulgaria on Oct.23 as an observer of PACE. During the visit, Pashayeva will hold a series of meetings, including with the Central Election Commission Chairman and Secretary General of the Supreme Administrative …

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will visit Georgia in early November, Georgian official Manana Manjgaladze said at a press briefing on Tuesday. She said Sargsyan’s visit will last three days.

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will pay a working visit to Azerbaijan on Oct. 26, the Georgian Embassy in Azerbaijan announced on Monday. During the visit, Vashadze will hold talks with the Azerbaijani side on topical issues of bilateral and regional cooperation.

Turkey is ready to extend support to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Turkey’s defense minister said in Baku yesterday. “We are ready to support, cooperate and join in production with Azerbaijan

Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC) and Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to Georgia on Oct. 11-14.

French leader Nicholas Sarkozy visited Armenia and called on Turkey to recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide, hopefully during his tenure as president. “If a big country like Turkey accepts the dark pages of its history…. Armenia and France will see it as a real step forward,” Sarkozy …