Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Foreign Policy or a Battle Cry?

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Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

What happened in October?

The October 2012 parliamentary election gave Georgia a chance for normal development. Needless to say, a government assuming power through violence cannot be democratic. Thus, defeating the National Movement through the ballot box instead of

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Georgia's Security Council to meet to discuss video threat

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Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called Georgia’s National Security Council together for another session in the beginning of this week to discuss a video threat uploaded on Youtube.

The video contains threats against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan

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Thousands attend funeral of dead Georgian soldiers

 

Funeral of the seven dead soldiers was held at Sameba on Sunday (DF Watch photo)
Funeral of the seven dead soldiers was held at Sameba on Sunday (DF Watch photo)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Sunday, thousands of people attended the funeral of the seven soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

Patriarch Ilia II conducted the funeral which took place at Sameba Cathedral in Tbilisi. The prime minister and almost the entire government were present during the service

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Demonstration in Tbilisi to demand withdrawal from Afghanistan

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The demonstrators demanded that Georgia withdraws its troops from Afghanistan. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Students rallied in front of the old parliament building in Tbilisi Friday to demand the withdrawal of Georgian troops from Afghanistan.

The protest came after seven Georgian soldiers died in a suicide attack in Helmand province on Thursday.

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200 locals gathered to prevent Friday prayers

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200 locals in Samtatskharo gathered outside the prayer house, determined to prevent Friday prayers. (Georgian Public Broadcaster.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday prayers were disrupted by locals yesterday in a village in eastern Georgia.

About 200 locals had gathered in the village Samtatskharo in the Kakheti region in order to prevent Muslims from praying in a house that has been purchased for this

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