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On November 4, Armenian parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamyan met with the newly appointed Ukrainian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Kukhta. Speaker Abrahamyan voiced confidence that the Ambassador will further

Greece is ready to assist Georgia in the European and Euro-Atlantic integration process. Greek officials made the statement during recent Georgian-Greek political consultations in Tbilisi, the Georgian Foreign Ministry told Trend. The consultations were attended by the heads of the two countries’ foreign ministry departments. Within the talks, head of …

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Yezhel will arrive in Tbilisi today on a two-day visit, the Georgian Defense Ministry said. He will meet with his Georgian counterpart Bacho Akhalaia later this afternoon. Tomorrow, Yezhel will attend a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial dedicated to the Georgian

The presidential administration of Georgia on Tuesday said that it would not make any comment on the issue of Russian spies. Manana Manjgaladze, spokesperson for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, told a press briefing that the president’s administration would not make any comment on the issue until further deals become known.

The recently published Russian government strategy paper for the North Caucasus chooses to focus solely on the socio-economic development of the region. The refusal to address key political or religious issues undermines the whole rationale for the document, laments Sergei Markedonov for openDemocracy. On 4 October 2010 the Russian Federation …

Georgia on Monday arrested 20 individuals that are suspected of conspiring to pass secret information to Russia. According to Russian media reports, 20 individuals, all of them Georgians, were arrested by local police forces after they organized and formed a spy network to favor Russia. However, Georgian officials declined to either …

The National Security Council of Turkey has taken Georgia and Armenia out of its list of neighboring countries which pose security threats, according to news reports reaching here Monday. The Turkish security council had earlier approved of the change in the list, which previously included Georgia and

Tbilisi will host a conference on the topic “Are we approaching to Europe?” today. At the event the results of the research “Economic and social policy in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan”, along with the Georgian experts will also be presented by experts from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The prospects for bilateral political and economic cooperation will be considered in Baku. The negotiations will be held within Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis’s visit to Azerbaijan on November 28-29. Kouvelis, as a co-chairman of the intergovernmental

If the Transnistria problem is resolved in a near future, this will tell positively on the settling of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, believes President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. He said yesterday that if even one of the existing several regional conflicts in the FSU area is resolved, this will give