Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Seeds of prosperity between Georgia and Armenia?

Half of Georgia's population is involed in agriculture, but mostly as subsistence farmers and the sector only accounts for 9% of GDP. How to make it into more of a business was discussed in Tbilisi Thursday. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – How can Armenia and Georgia create more growth – literally – in their border region? Agriculture was the topic of a conference Thursday at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi.

The goal was to exchange information on local planning and

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German-Georgian relations reaffirmed in Tbilisi

Cornelia Pieper, Germany's deputy foreign minister, is happy to see the progress in talks about a Georgian association agreement with the EU. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany is satisfied with how the negotiations between Georgia and the EU are going, to work out an association agreement.

Cornelia Pieper, Germany’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said this after a meeting with her Georgian colleague.

Pieper

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The trouble with American military laboratories

The U.S. has been subject to criticism for several covert projects which some claim are in breach of the ban on biological weapons. But there is no reason to suspect that such research would be done at this laboratory in Tbilisi.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem?

According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international

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Georgian Railways is to be listed on London stock exchange

Georgia's prime minister, Nika Gilauri, says that a plan to place state-owned companies on the London Stock Exchange was postponed by troubles in the financial markets last fall, but the plan is now back on track. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Railways is set to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), becoming the second Georgian companies to achieve a listing, after Bank of Georgia.

Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said April 12 that the government was planning to place several

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