Within the framework of the visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze to Brussels, an agreement on the simplification of visa procedures between Georgia and the European Union will be signed. From the Georgian side the Agreement will be signed by Vashadze and from the European...
BP will continue to pay the costs for the oil spill cleanup and will work out with its drilling partners later who is liable for the costs, a executive for the oil giant told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. "BP is paying all the bills right now," Darryl Willis, the vice president of resources...
The mothers of U.S. hikers urged the Iranian government to either prosecute or free the three held since last year after reportedly crossing the border into the country while hiking in Iraq. In a statement, the mothers of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal also called for more consular access...
The first session of the new Tbilisi Sakrebulo (City Council) will be assembled today. Zaal Samadashvili, Tbilisi Sakrebulo Chairman will head up the session. Samadashvili will presumably have 2 deputies representing oppositional parties as a result of changes made to the Law about Tbilisi government. The...
Two-day heavy rains have caused flood in the remote Region of Svaneti. The swollen rivers demolished bridges and damaged roads, isolating twelve villages from the rest of the province. Some of the isolated villages have been even disconnected from the electricity network as the flood damaged...
A few days before the visit of the Russian president to Washington, U.S. senior official has reiterated support to Georgia`s territorial integrity and its political course. `The United States wishes to improve its relations with Russia, however, it will not happen on the expense of its friend...
After the collapse of the National Council, an election bloc consisting of several opposition parties, political experts are expecting to see a new opposition merger soon. The leader of the Movement for Fair Georgia, Zurab Noghaideli arrived in Germany, where he holds negotiations with another former...
Switzerland is ready for tight cooperation with Georgia and for making investments in specific fields in teh country. Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri, during his visit to Switzerland, met with the president, representatives of business circles and owners of prominent brands of the country. An...
The 25th Congress of UNESCO's International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) will be held in Armenia June 15-20, 2010. ‘During these five days the congress will not only discuss the main problems of the international theatre, the initiatives of the theatrical art, but also make assessments...
Georgian police have arrested an organized group of swindlers. One of the four women was the founder of Fortune Travel Tourist Company. They were selling counterfeit Schengen visas by the Embassy of France to Ukraine. As a result of operative-investigative activities jointly conducted with Prosecutor's...
While the vaunted Netherlands attack has naturally drawn most of the attention around the team at the 2010 FIFA World CupTM, the achievement of captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst in becoming only the fourth Dutch player to win 100 caps should not be underplayed. After the 2-0 win over Denmark on Monday,...
The next deportation of Georgian migrants from Poland is expected to be carried out on June 29, 2010. The number of deported people is unknown for the time being. A total of 167 Georgian citizens were deported from Poland during this year. The number of people remaining in the migrants camps,...
Turkey is set to host a summit meeting of heads of state and government of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) which will be held on June 23 in Istanbul under the chairmanship of Turkish President Abdullah Gul, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The meeting...
Prime Minister Vlad Filat today participated in the official launch of dialogue on the liberalization of the visa regime between Moldova and the European Union, the government's press service has said. The dialogue started within a meeting of the Moldova-EU Cooperation Council held in Luxembourg....
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday the country will inject huge funds into state-of-the-art offensive and defensive arms. "Most great powers heavily invest into the newest offensive and defensive systems. We should do the same," he told a ceremony of launching the Severodvinsk...
