TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia will have the chairmanship of GUAM in 2013.
Foreign Affairs Minister Maia Panjikidze said at Monday’s regular briefing that Georgia was officially appointed in Dublin a few days ago, at a session of the GUAM foreign minister council.
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says the meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission on Wednesday was not a step forward for the country.
Saakashvili made the comment during a working visit to Poland.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t see
TBILISI, DFWatch — NATO will not interfere in the legal process in Georgia in regard to the recent detentions of former government officials, the alliance’s Secretary General says.
After summing up a meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission in Brussels, Anders
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Patriarch Ilia II hosted Israeli Ambassador Yuval Fuchs and his wife at the Patriarch’s residence in Mtskheta, close to the capital.
Fuchs thanked Illia II for his merits in deepening relations between the two states in regards to
TBILISI, DFWatch — Bucharest decision that Georgia will become a member of NATO stands if Georgia fulfills necessary criteria, NATO Secretary General states.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was speaking at a press conference after a meeting of the NATO-Russia
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former Interior Ministry official has been sentenced to pre-trial detention in absentia.
Data Akhalaia, former chair of the feared Constitutional Security Department of the Interior Ministry, is charged, together with Soso Topuridze and Geronti
TBILISI, DFWatch — Military Police in Georgia have seized about a hundred weapons of different types at an apartment in Tbilisi.
Vako Avaliani, Advisor to the Defense Minister, on Monday said the weapons were not registered.
The ministry learned about the location
TBILISI, DFWatch — Seven persons died Monday evening in a car accident in Western Georgia, according to the Interior Ministry.
In a statement the ministry writes that the accident took place at about 20:00 in the village Tseva, in the Imereti region. A truck
TBILISI, DFWatch — NATO’s Foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels December 4 and 5.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, will chair the meeting. Maia Panjikidze, Georgia’s Foreign Affairs Minister arrived in Brussels Monday evening
TBILISI, DFWatch — The court released a former interior ministry official on bail until the trial, in the most controversial case among the recent detentions.
Tengiz Gunava on Sunday was sentenced to pay USD 6 000 bail. First he was detained for illegal possession