Armenia warned Azerbaijan it was ready for war as tensions soared Monday between the ex-Soviet foes after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death. Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev last week immediately pardoned Ramil Safarov after he was extradited...
Tbilisi will host a conference on environment protection issues "Tbilisi+35" on September 6-7. About 60 Ministers of Environment protection from 100 different countries will arrive in Georgia on this occasion. The participants will adopt a communiqué at the end of the conference....
Grigol Vashadze, Georgia's Minister of Foreign Affairs attended the ambassadorial in Bucharest in the status of an honorable guest. Vashadze delivered a speech as part of the ambassadorial dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Romanian diplomatic relations. Vashadze held meetings with Romanian...
Razzmatazz and singing in the sunshine - an up beat city of Charlotte prepared to host the Democratic National Convention. With Barack Obama tied in opinion polls with his rival Mitt Romney, the president is going to have to dig deep to convince voters his luke-warm economic record is worthy of four...
Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy released a joint statement regarding Georgia. The EU high-ranking officials said Georgia will remain an important...
John Sidney McCain, senior United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 and Joseph "Joe" Lieberman, US Senator from Connecticut will arrive in Georgia on September 6. Georgian politicians claim that the visit will reaffirm the US' support...
A 5-year-old girl was drowned in Acharistskali River in Keda district of Adjara region. The girl was swimming together with her elder sisters. Eyewitnesses said that she slipped off the stone was lost from sight. Rescuers found her corpse several meters away from the incident site.
One person, Revaz Siradze, a 75-year-old professor was injured as a result of a blast due to the natural gas leak in Kobuleti resort of Adjara region. The patient was placed at a local hospital first but was later was transferred to the Tbilisi Burns Center. Doctors evaluate his health as critical....
President Van Rompuy met with the Prime Minister of Georgia, Merabishvili, on his first visit to Brussels, and congratulated him on his recent appointment in the Office. The President recalled his visit to Georgia last July, and expressed his wish to working together on a very intense agenda at...
The US National-Democratic Institute will present the first report of the long-term monitoring mission today. The report covers the period from 3 to 27 August. According to NDI, the aim of the long-term monitoring mission in Georgia is to evaluate election environment in the country ahead of...
Petrol bombs, bottles and bricks were thrown, as republicans and loyalists clashed on the streets of Belfast. Twenty-six police officers were injured and three hospitalised as they tried to restore order to the north of the city. Violence erupted following a march held by the Republican Network...
Not enough is being done to end violence in Syria, according to the UN and Arab League's new mediator. But Lakhdar Brahimi says finding a solution is "nearly impossible." Kofi Annan, his predecessor as the United Nations and Arab League joint special representative on Syria, blamed "finger-pointing...
The armed conflict continues in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. Shooting between Russian Interior troops and local armed groups continues in the different regions. The exact number of dead and wounded persons is not reported yet. The police has found an improvised mine in the...
26 police officers were injured in clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland on Sunday in a dispute over the rights of the two communities to hold parades in the area. Police fired water cannon after protesters from both sides threw bottles and stones at officers trying to...
The Chairman and founder of the Civil Movement "Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetian House", professor Nestan (Elisabeth) Kirtadze is invited at the XXII World Economic Forum, that will hold in Krynica (Poland), 4-6 of September. The high representative delegations from different countries...
