Sunday, April 26, 2026

Saakashvili met Bush in Texas

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Georgia’s first lady Sandra Roelofs (left), President Mikheil Saakashvili, and former US President George W. Bush. (Photo published on Saakashvili’s Facebook page.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili kicked off his visit to the US by meeting with ex-president George W. Bush and NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Pictures posted on Saakashvili’s official Facebook page showed him and his wife

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Kerry promises to visit Georgia

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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maia Panjikidze (left), and US Secretary of State, John Kerry in Brussels Wednesday.

TBILISI, DFWatch–US Secretary of State John Kerry has promised that he will visit Georgia.

Kerry made the promise as he met Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maia Panjikidze in Brussels on Wednesday to talk about Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration,

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Georgia offers Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway for ISAF exit

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NATO’s Caucasus and Central Asia envoy James Appathurai (left) and Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maia Panjikidze in Brussels today. (Ministry photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia offers NATO to use the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway to ship equipment out of Afghanistan after the ISAF mission finishes in 2014, Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze says.

Construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, one of the largest

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Ivanishvili answered questions in Strasbourg

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili answering questions in Strasbourg Tuesday at a meeting of the Council of Europe. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday presented his government’s plans for creating new jobs, amending the labor legislation and usher in new reforms to promote business.

Mr Ivanishvili was speaking at a session of the Parliamentary

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Ivanishvili: Georgia needs support in dialogue with Russia

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Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, says the new dialogue with Russia doesn’t mean his country no longer needs support from its partners.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the fact that there is a dialogue between Tbilisi and Moscow shouldn’t create the impression that the country doesn’t need support from its partners anymore.

He said this in a speech at a session

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Police in Georgia detain brothel owners

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The owner of this hotel was detained for providing space for organized prostitution. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained several hotel owners for providing space for organized prostitution.

On Monday, the Interior Ministry informed that police from Adjara’s main police department had detained a man named Gela (born in 1984),

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