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NATO remains committed to admitting Georgia to its ranks, the head of the alliance said Friday, as the pro-Western former Soviet country suffered its greatest losses yet in Afghanistan. Georgia, which fought a brief war with Russia in August 2008, has deployed around 1000

Georgia’s accession to NATO and the prevailing situation in the occupied territories of the country were the main topics of discussions at a meeting between the speaker of the Georgian parliament, David Bakradze, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, which took place behind closed doors in parliament today, the …

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit Georgia Friday to meet with President Mikheil Saakashvili and other Georgian officials. During the visit, Rasmussen will open the NATO Liaison Office in Tbilisi, said a brief NATO statement here today. In 1994, Georgia joined the Alliance’s Partnership for Peace and recently …

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will visit Armenia on October 3-4 to discuss bilateral relations. An agreement on the visit was reached during the meeting of the Armenian and Georgian Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The last visit …

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Greece Rahman Mustafayev recently announced that Greek President Karolos Papoulias will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan in the first half of 2011. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev state

Georgia is ready for negotiations with Russia without preconditions, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said. “My impression is that Medvedev is leaving, but Putin is returning,” Saakashvili said, answering a question of the Al-Jazeera television company’s talk show

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in New York. The meeting was held at the initiative of the U.S side and lasted about an hour.

The 11-th meeting of the commission on delimitation and demarcation of borders between Azerbaijan and Georgia was held in the Azerbaijani town of Balaken on September 23-24. “The need for experts’ clarification of uncoordinated issues on the spot was revealed during discussions,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said. 

Today the Simulation Center of the Military Academy of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched the command-staff exercises “ETERNİTY-2010”. Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian military will attend the exercises.

Georgia’s parliament today opened a meeting of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Russian representatives are not attending the meeting after Tbilisi refused to grant them entry visas. The reason