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Georgian State Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili transferred the state strategy on national minorities today to Azerbaijani State Committee for Religious Organizations Chairman Hidayat Orujov.

Conflicts addressed by the OSCE should be resolved in the previously agreed upon format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to a question during a news conference in Moscow today.

Belarusian National Assembly representatives will pay a business visit to Georgia on Nov. 17. The Georgian Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze will receive the delegation on Nov.18

The Georgian government has taken appropriate measures due to Abkhazia transition to Russian area code, Interior Minister Deputy Nino Kalandadze reported.

The first meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum will take place on November 16-17 in Brussels, a spokesperson for the European Commission said.

Georgian president expressed satisfaction with the format of enlarged council on national security of Georgia. Mikheil Saakashvili stated at the regular meeting of the enlarged council that these meetings involving the opposition are a dialogue between the government and the opposition. “Of course, the dialogue does not mean we will …

Turkey has announced plans to improve the rights of its Kurdish minority. The reforms are seen as a way of boosting Turkey’s chances of EU membership and include the creation of an independent anti-discrimination commission to prevent torture and discrimination. The plan also involves allowing the Kurdish language to be …

Following a ceremony of signing Azerbaijan-Bulgaria documents on Friday in Sophia, Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria held a joint press conference. Bulgaria President Parvanov noted the documents signed today elevated bilateral relations to a qualitatively new level. According to him, an active political dialogue exists …

On Nov. 13, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s one-day working visit to the Republic of Bulgaria ended. An honor guard was built at the international airport of Sofia in honor of the President of Azerbaijan. Ilham Aliyev was accompanied by high-ranking officials and government representatives of Bulgaria.

The Georgian parliament will begin discussions on nominees to the post of Georgian ambassador to Azerbaijan today. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili nominated earlier this week Presidential Administration Spokesman Ivan Noniashvili.