DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU and Georgia on Friday finished the first signing of the Association Agreement. The proceedings took place in Vilnius during the summit there of the EU’s Eastern Partnership.
The agreement was signed by the Union’s foreign policy spokesperson
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili will be given three minutes to address the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius today.
He is expected to talk about the importance of Georgia being integrated with Europe, and that a certain resistance
TBILISI, DFWatch–Orthodox clerics and members of a radical religious group Thursday demonstrated in the Georgian village Chela against the restoration of a minaret on the night of November 27.
The day ended without incident, and the rally was dissolved peacefully.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The technical part of the initialization of Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU is finished, and tomorrow is the official part of the proceedings.
Attending Thursday’s event in Vilnius were, from Georgia, Deputy Foreign Minister Davit
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in January-October 2013 was USD 8 591 million, according to precise data from Georgian National Statistics Department (Geostat).
This is one percent more than in the same period last year.
The export was USD 2 306
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian man has been released from a holding facility in South Ossetia after first being detained two days ago for trespassing.
Malkhaz Vanishvili, 24, from the village Khurvaleti near the de facto border, was detained together with Gocha Makishvili.
TBILISI, DFWatch–National Movement MPs on Wednesday came to parliament wearing Ukrainian flags as tie and with Ukrainian flags on their desks.
They did it to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people. The speaker of parliament liked the idea and asked to give him one too.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The minaret that was taken down in a Georgian village was put back up at the mosque Wednesday night.
According to the local newspaper Samkhretis Karibche (Sknews.ge), the local government in Adigeni issued a permission to restore the minaret in Chela
TBILISI, DFWatch–A ship Wednesday arrived in Batumi to take aboard 300 000 boxes, or 120 tons, of Georgian citrus fruits and bring the goods to Novorossiysk.
The citrus fruit originated in the two municipalities Khelvachauri and Kobuleti.
According to Zaur Putkaradze,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia will initialize its Association Agreement with the EU on November 29 as leaders of the EU and countries in the Eastern Partnership meet in Vilnius.
Davit Zalkaliani, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, will initialize the agreement by signing