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TBILISI, DFWatch–Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU is not a threat to Russia-Georgia relations.
Steinmeier, who is visiting Georgia with his French colleague Laurent Fabius, said at a press
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has left for Prague to participate in the five year anniversary summit of the Eastern Partnership.
According to president administration, Giorgi Margvelashvili will hold a speech at the summit on April 25.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A government spokesman in Georgia rejects a claim by ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili that US Vice President Joe Biden called and threatened sanctions.
Saakashvili claimed Biden threatened that the West would seize ex-Prime Minister Bidzina
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian counterintelligence chief in exile has applied for political asylum in Greece.
Data Akhalaia, the former head of the Constitutional Security Department (Kudi) during the Saakashvili regime, is brother of the imprisoned former
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian diplomat says Georgia must be on guard after the Russian Duma passed a bill which simplifies the rules for getting Russian citizenship.
The legislative amendment has been a cause of concern for groups in Georgia the last few weeks, with
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s culture minister promises to halt excavation work at an ancient a gold mine in the south of the country after protesters camped near the site raised the alarm that it was being damaged by RMG Gold.
Culture Minister Guram Odisharia
TBILISI, DFWatch–A memorial to the Armenian genocide was unveiled in Tbilisi on Monday. The memorial is made of stone and stands in the yard of Surb Etchmiadzin Church in the capital.
Levon Isakhanian, representative of the Armenian community in Georgia,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The foreign ministers of Germany and France will visit Georgia on April 23-24.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and France’s Laurent Fabius were originally to have visited Georgia on March 3, but they both postponed due to events in Ukraine.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili says the proposal by Russia’s Vladimir Putin for a meeting has had no actual follow-up or preparations.
At the opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Russian president said that there is a possibility
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is on top of a list of former Soviet countries from where the highest number of people get their visa application rejected by the EU.
For each country in EU’s Eastern Partnership plus Russia, the Schengen visa rejection rate in 2013 was: