TBILISI, DFWatch – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to arrive in Georga from Armenia Monday evening as part of a tour of the South Caucasus.
Tomorrow Clinton is meeting with President Saakashvili and Prime Minister Nika Gilauri, and later leaders
TBILISI, DFWatch – The number of visitors to Georgia is increasing.
The latest figures from the Interior Ministry show that the number of foreigners who visited Georgia in the first five months of 2012 was half of what it was during all of 2011.
2 822 363 persons
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry is looking into a foreign trace in the search for those responsible for placing a bomb in front of Israel’s Embassy in Tbilisi in February.
There are no further details about the investigation.
On February 13, police
TBILISI, DFWatch – Dirk Niebel, Germany’s Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, will visit Batumi on June 2.
The German embassy informs that Niebel is planning to meet with Georgian government representatives. He will also study bilateral projects
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany is to allocate 75 million euro as grant and soft loan to Georgia.
The new aid package was announced after a meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri and Dirk Niebel, German minister for economic development today.
Gilauri says
TBILISI, DFWatch – USD 230 million was transferred to Georgia in the first quarter of 2012 as direct investments.
Nika Gilauri, Georgia’s Prime Minister this at a government session Wednesday. The figure is based on preliminary data of National Statistics Department,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili wants to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton who is to arrive here on June 5, as part of her tour of the South Caucasus.
The leader of the Georgian Dream coalition will ask the U.S.
TBILISI, DFWatch – U.S. senator Richard Durbin is visiting Georgia today to discuss regional safety and US-Georgia relations.
The visit will last two days. He will meet with President Mikheil Saakashvili, as well as representatives of the opposition and organizations.
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili says his country expects a new attack from Russia by October, when parliament elections are to be held. But he things it will fail.
Saakashvili is on a visit to Latvia together with his wife, and made the statement
TBILISI, DFWatch – The police detained eight activists in front of parliament today.
The eight were protesting against the arrest of their friends on May 26, near Gelati Monastery, near Kutaisi in western Georgia.
The protesters were from three organizations: