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Mayor of Yerevan Karen Karapetyan and Mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava attended the opening ceremony of an Armenian cultural center in the Georgian capital. The two stressed the importance of maintenance of cultural ties and cooperation between the neighbor countries. His Holiness Karekin II Surpreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev started his two-day visit to Serbia on Wednesday – today he and Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić will be in Novi Sad. Aliyev said yesterday that cooperation between the two countries had significantly stepped up lately, and that this visit showed that relations between them had strategic …

The U.S. Congress representatives will today hold several meetings in the Georgian parliament during their visit to Georgia. A group of the U.S. congressmen consisting of 8 people, who represent the Republican and Democratic parties, is on visit to Tbilisi. They are scheduled to meet with representatives of the Constitutional …

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said he sees positive signs of a breakthrough in a dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia, welcoming Azerbaijan’s “determined and optimistic” position on the conflict.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili discussed the country’s further European integration at a meeting with Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council in Rome. The sides stressed the importance of cooperation within the Eastern Partnership.

Russia is concerned about the intensified activity of Georgian security services in the territories of sovereign neighboring republics, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr

At a ministerial meeting on the project of Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnecter (AGRI) in Bucharest representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary expressed full support for AGRI, which envisages supply of the Caspian liquefied gas through the Black Sea coast of Georgia to Eastern Europe.

Turkey and Georgia took their visa-free travel policy a step further on Monday, initiating a passport-free travel regime under which their nationals will be able to visit each other’s country with national identity cards alone.

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze met with OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek. The sides discussed the priority issues of cooperation between Georgia and the OSCE, the situation in the occupied territories and the Russian-Georgian relations. OSCE High Commissioner also visited Sukhumi on May 24-26 within the visit …

At the European Union‘s Foreign Affairs Council on 23 May in Brussels, during the discussions about the situation in the states of the South Caucasus and the course of negotiations on association agreements with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Audronius Ažubalis spoke up for a …