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NATO speră că va atinge un consens cu Rusia în privinţa creării unui sistem de apărarea antirachetă la următorul summit al Alianţei Nord-Atlantice, care se va desfăşura în mai 2012 la Chicago, a declarat luni secretarul general al organizaţiei, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. 

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze met in Tbilisi on June 29 to focus on bilateral relations. “We have an agreement to hold bilateral meetings three or four times a year. We meet to discuss and resolve the existing problems,” Vashadze said after the meeting. …

Georgia has asked Russia for talks on alleged rights violations including ethnic cleansing that it claims were committed by Moscow over the past two decades, Georgia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, June 28.

Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia Celeste Wallander on June 27 to discuss defense cooperation between Armenia and the United States.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will pay a working visit to Georgia. Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia Nino Kalandadze praised active Armenia-Georgia relations, noting that bilateral and multilateral relations with be discussed during Nalbandian’s return visit.

Today members of the Federation Council ratified an agreement between Azerbaijan and Russia on the state borders, setting mutual national borderline points between Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia extending to the Caspian Sea. The agreement states that the line corresponds to the former administrative border between Dagestan ASSR and Azerbaijan SSR. …

Azerbaijan is ready to implement joint projects with Georgia in the sphere of culture, Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev said at a meeting with the Georgian Culture and Monuments Protection Minister Nikoloz Rurua in Baku on Monday.

We are on the threshold of the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday in Tbilisi at a joint briefing with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze.

A meeting was held at the level of working groups of Azerbaijan and Georgia in the first half of June on the issue of delimitation the state border between the two countries, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Geodesy and Cartography said.

Strong, successful and independent Georgia is part of the national security of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said after his meeting with the Chairman of the Georgian Parliament on Monday.