DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–A delegation from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly is coming to Georgia March 24-26.
The NATO parliamentarians will be attending a round table discussion at the NATO office here.
Another part of the visit is a meeting with their Georgian counterparts
TBILISI, DFWatch–French President François Hollande will visit Georgia on May 13, the foreign minister of the host country said on Wednesday.
Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said the schedule and other details of the visit are still being put together.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is dissatisfied with the president that he selected as candidate.
Ivanishvili selected Giorgi Margvelashvili as the Georgian Dream coalition’s candidate before the presidential election in October
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ten persons have been convicted in the case about a secret weapons cache in Samegrelo, a region in eastern Georgia.
In summer of last year, the government found weapons, video and audio recordings buried in barrels in the ground in Samegrelo.
Apart
TBILISI, DFWatch–A large number of dead fish has been discovered on the shores of Kumisi Lake.
Specialists at the National Food Agency claim the fish died due to a lack of water and oxygen.
Kumisi Lake is a popular place for anglers and lies about 20 km south
TBILISI, DFWatch–Afghanistan is interested in Georgia’s location and prospects for cooperation in the fields of economy and transport, but nothing specific has yet been said about concrete project.
Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osman on Monday talked
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has charged former Interior Ministry official Erekle Kodua with abuse of power and fraud.
Erekle Kodua is former head of the Interior Ministry’s Special Operative Department (SOD).
Investigators found that on August
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover was USD 1 567 million in January-February 2014, according to preliminary figures from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
The figures show that foreign trade turnover in the first two months of the year
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi does not recognize the referendum in Crimea, according to a statement released by the Foreign Affairs Ministry Sunday evening.
The statement says the referendum was conducted as a result of Russian pressure of armed forces and in violation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Supporters and opponents of the referendum in Crimea clashed in Tbilisi Sunday.
A group called “Eurasian Choice” tried to hold a demonstration on Cholokashvili Street in front of the old Russian embassy building at 15:00, but were pushed away