TBILISI, DFWatch – Abkhazia wants the EU to recognize the Georgian breakaway region’s own passports as valid travel documents, just as is the case with North Cyprus.
De facto foreign minister Viacheslav Chirikba said this February 8 after meeting Philip Dimitrov,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili calls for the government to investigate a police special operation in 2006 which took the lives of two young men.
It’s known as the Vazagashvili case and gathers a crowd every year at the spot near Paliashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia recorded a record number of visitors entering the country in January 2012.
According to data from the Border Guard Department and the National Administration of Tourism, 227 006 international travelers entered the country in January, which is 41%
TBILISI, DFWatch – Snowy weather is creating difficulties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The whole country is currently covered with up to two meters of snow, but the transit of goods east-west is flowing normally.
The international airport in Tbilisi says their
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russian President Dimitry Medvedev says the Russian and Georgian people should have relations and thinks it’s therefore necessary to restore trade relation.
The president made this statement on Monday during a meeting with his supporters.
“We have
TBILISI, DFWatch – There is growing uncertainty about whether the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili may stay on as prime minister after the end of his second term as president.
Yesterday, the editorial board of the Washington Post published a comment in which
TBILISI, DFWatch – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in contact with the foreign minister of Georgia to discuss security issues.
It’s the country’s deputy foreign minister Nikoloz Vashakidze who brings this information at a regular briefing on Monday.
TBLISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Speaker of Parliament says that there is no talk of Georgia having a role in a potential conflict between Iran and the USA.
Davit Bakradze was commenting a statement made earlier by the deputy secretary of the country’s security council, Batu Kutelia,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president says Russia stopped its attack in August 2008 after the United States started deploying forces to assist the small country.
Mikheil Saakashvili was speaking to students at the U.S. Naval Academy February 3, a speech that was carried
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president says Georgia already is the biggest trade hub in the Caucasus region and that the construction of Europe’s biggest shopping center is just completed here.
He made this statement during his speech at Georgetown University in Washington.