AzerTAc- As part of the informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Almaty, Azerbaijan`s top diplomat Elmar Mammadyarov met his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian to discuss the peace process over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Foreign ministers Bernard Kouchner of France, Sergey Lavrov of Russia,...
Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hails the beginning of negotiations regarding the associated membership of Georgia to EU. Deputy Minister Aleksandre Nalbandov summed up the politically overloaded last week at the briefing today that the associated membership plan will replace the previous format...
ITAS-TASS- The patriarch Moscow and all Russia Cyril "with pleasure will visit Ukraine" on July, 20-28th. "I with pleasure meal to Ukraine which is very close to my heart. Such trips are very important for the head of church", - the patriarch in interview to the Ukrainian TV channel...
Several non-governmental organizations are objecting to some points of the new tax code, which is under discussion at the parliament. The NGOs say the amendment, which grows the incomes tax from granted funds from 12 to 20 $ is unacceptable for them. They say that these amendments will only obstruct...
The head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre (NAEC), Maia Miminoshvili reported the details of the ongoing nationwide entrance exams at the briefing today. She said four examination days were left ahead and the entrants would pass tests in mathematics, geography, physics and chemistry. Maia...
The Staff of the State Minister For Reintegration has released a special statement regarding the bus accident, which occurred in the breakaway Tskhinvali Region yesterday, killing 11 passengers in the result. The statement says that the Georgian government expressed condollences to the families of...
Soso Tsiskarishvili, political scientist talked with news agency GHN about frequent visits of European diplomats to Georgia. "It is a time for them to better understand processes in Georgia. These visits first of all are for receiving the information from the source, from political parties and from...
Georgian parliament goes on vacation. The last session of the bureau will be held today and on Wednesday, the series of the non-plenary summer sessions will be over. At today`s session of the bureau, the MPs will discuss the amendments to the laws on education and health care. On Tuesday the...
RIA Novosti - Israel and Palestinians have failed so far to create conditions for the resumption of direct peace talks, the Egyptian foreign minister said. Ahmed Aboul Gheit attended on Sunday separate back-to-back meetings held by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with Palestinian President Mahmoud...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was the first "elected target" of instigators of the Sledgehammer (Bayloz) plan, a suspected military plot to overthrow the government, Today's Zaman reports, citing The Star. The instigators planned to assassinate opponents...
CNN. A moving train rammed into a stopped train in eastern India early Monday, killing more than 50 people and injuring 100, police said. Emergency crews were still at the scene more than eight hours after the crash, but there was no sign of more passengers trapped in the wreckage, said Humayun Kabir,...
Eleven people have died in the bus, which fell in the ravine close to the Rokki Tunnel. The bus was travelling from Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, to the occupied Tskhinvali Region via Transcaucasia highway. There were 25 people including the driver in the bus. Two of the accident victims are children....
Along with presidents of Georgia and Azerbaijan, first ladies of teh two countries also held a meeting in the seaside town of Batumi of Adjara Region on Sunday. Mehriban Aliyeva and Sandra Roelofs visited historical Gonio Fortress in the southwest of Batumi at first, then arrived in the village of Kvariati...
Fourteen people have died and 12 others have been injured, many seriously, after a bus fell off a cliff in Albania. Police spokeswoman Klejda Plangarica said the bus was travelling in "rough weather conditions" 90 miles north of the capital, Tirana, but she did not give further details,...
Georgia`s success is our success, - president of Azerbaijan Ilhalm Aliyev said at the joint press conference with hid Georgian counterpart in the seaside town in Batumi in Adjara Region. Prior to it, the two leaders held talks on cooperation in economy and energy and successful projects. They said a...
