TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili will visit Azerbaijan for the first time on February 12.
Margvelashvili will meet with President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday. He will also meet with Azerbaijan’s prime minister and speaker of parliament.
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO Military Committee will visit Georgia on February 11-12.
General Knud Bartels, Chairman of the Military Committee will chair the visit and it will be hosted by Vakhtang Kapanadze, Head of Georgia’s Joint Staff.
February 11, the head of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–There were 14.1 percent more visitors to Georgia in January 2014 than in the same month last year, according to the Interior Ministry.
The ministry publishes monthly reports with statistics over the number of visitors, in categories defined by the purpose of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president’s annual address will be held either on February 19 or February 21, the speaker of parliament says.
According to the Constitution of Georgia, the president must once a year visit parliament to present a report about important
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili’s Brussels trip continued Monday with a meeting with EU Commissioner Stefan Fule.
The two spoke about the ongoing reforms in Georgia and the country’s closer integration with Europe. Gharibashvili said
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili will visit Brussels February 3-5.
He will meet with Commissioner for European Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule, and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso.
The Georgian prime
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four flights were delayed at Tbilisi airport on Wednesday due to fog.
A flight to Istanbul was delayed several hours. A plane arriving from Warsaw was unable to land at Tbilisi airport and instead landed in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The lion tamer who was attacked by a lion last Thursday has died in the hospital.
The circus worker remained in intensive care, but doctors could not save him.
The 23-year-old lion tamer was from a Ukrainian circus troupe and entered the cage to do
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man has died in an apparent accident in a coal mine in Tkibuli, a town in Georgia’s mid-western Imereti region.
Tariel Kasrashvili, a shift leader, died at 16:00 on Tuesday. He was transporting coal inside the Mindeli mine when he fell and died on
TBILISI, DFWatch–A student from Iraq was beaten in the Georgian city Kutaisi on Saturday. Local media writes that he was attack because of his origins.
The student was brought to the hospital and will have to remain there for several more days.
Unknown assailants