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. 

Officials in Greece and the European Union on Thursday denied media reports that Athens is seeking an extension of an international rescue loan agreement beyond 2012. “There will be no extension of the (loan) agreement – we state this categorically, and of course there is no question of extending the …