GENEVA Georgia and Russia resumed security talks yesterday after mediators and a UN report helped nudge Moscow’s negotiators back to the table, officials said. All sides agreed to meet again on July 1 for talks intended to head off any further conflict in an area seen by the West as …

Thirty-two companies represented Turkey in an international construction fair in Georgia. Turkish companies manufacturing construction materials, window-door systems, bath-kitchen equipment, roof systems, paint and construction chemicals, joined the 14th International Fair for the Building and Interiors (Caucasus Build 2009) in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

France is ready to help Romania build a new nuclear power station, President Nicolas Sarkozy told his Romanian counterpart on Monday. Several European companies including France’s GDF Suez, Enel from Italy and E.ON from Germany have expressed an interest in the contract to build Romania’s second nuclear plant.