Sunday, December 14, 2025

NATO chief reiterates support for Georgia's borders

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Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (NATO photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–As NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels and discussed the Ukraine crisis, the alliance’s secretary general underlined that it supports Georgia’s borders.

“At this time, it is more important than ever to stress that the breach of territorial

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Georgia expects visa free travel with Schengen by 2016

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Georgia’s Minister for Euro-Integration Alexi Petriashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government hopes its country’s citizens will be able to travel to Schengen countries visa free from 2016 at the latest.

Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration Alexi Petriashvili said on Monday that he hopes to see the first phase

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Georgian President Margvelashvili visiting Poland

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Giorgi Margvelashvili, President of Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili Wednesday began a two day visit to Poland.

On the first day of his visit, Margvelashvili was to meet his Polish colleague, after which they were slated to hold a joint press conference.

He will also meet with

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Poll shows Georgian Dream winning Tbilisi mayoral race

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Georgian Dream’s candidate for Tbilisi mayor, Davit Narmania, who currently is Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a new poll, 52 percent of Tbilisians say they would vote for the Georgian Dream candidate for mayor if the local elections were held tomorrow.

Four percent say they won’t vote for anyone, and 18 percent haven’t decided yet.

Another source

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Live interviews of 27 candidates for Public Broadcaster board

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Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The 27 candidates for the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) will be interviewed live on GPB’s Channel 2 Wednesday and Thursday.

After going through a round of interviews, a shortlist of 15 candidates will be sent to parliament,

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Improved human rights in Georgia, but minorities are discriminated

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Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Discrimination of sexual, ethnic and religious minorities, child marriage, family violence, bullying in schools, people affected by hydro power development and mistreatment of prisoners.

These are some of the human rights challenges in the Georgian

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