TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called for an unscheduled session of Georgia’s National Security Council today at 4 pm.
Prime Minister Ivanishvili and several ministers who are abroad will not attend the meeting, but some government officials
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO is concerned about illegal separating constructions in the conflict zone, says the alliance’s Caucasus and Central Asia envoy James Appathurai.
Last week, Russian soldiers moved the so-called administrative border 300 meters on a point south
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers have detained two more Georgian villagers for illegally crossing the so-called administrative border around breakaway South Ossetia.
The detainees are Avtandil and Kakha Khaduri. They were detained two days ago and taken to Tskhinvali.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Russian Federation has not yet reacted to a diplomatic note of protest from Georgia regarding the moving of the so-called administrative border into Georgian-controlled territory near breakaway South Ossetia.
But the Deputy Foreign Affairs
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border soldiers have again been seen in the village Ditsi, on Georgia controlled territory close to the de facto border with Russian-controlled South Ossetia.
On Monday, the first reports came about Russian soldiers in the villages Ditsi and
TBILISI, DFWatch–The recent installation of fences near Ditsi is unacceptable, EUMM says in a statement.
Staff from the EU Monitoring Mission arrived in the village Ditsi, where Russian soldiers have erected new barbed wire which moves the de facto border 300 meters
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers’ moving of the de facto border between Georgian- and Russian-controlled territory is being followed by European Union’s observers in the area.
Yesterday evening, the European Union Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM)
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Monday confirmed that Russian soldiers have moved the de facto border with South Ossetia 200 to 300 meters and is planning to raise the issue at the next meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM).
TBILISI, DFWatch–Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, has approved the main directions of development of the ministry and Georgia’s armed forces until 2016.
The goal of the Strategic Review of Defense 2013-2016, which is a manual for the Defense Ministry,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A session of the NATO Georgia commission was held May 22 in Brussels. Ambassadors discussed the planned visit to Georgia of the North Atlantic Council this summer.
Zurab Abashidze, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Russian Relations,