NAKHICHEVAN (News.az)—Foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey on Wednesday pledged further cooperation between the three countries in a declaration signed in Nakhichevan. The declaration followed a meeting between the ministers, Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan, Ali Akbar Salehi of Iran and Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey. In the declaration,...

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)—The Armenian Public Television on Wednesday officially told the European Broadcasting Union that it was pulling out of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, which is scheduled to be held in Baku, reported ArmRadio. Armenian Public Television accused Azeri President Ilham Aliyev of making hostile remarks in recent days....

BRUSSELS—President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday welcomed Europe’s desire to have direct and unimpeded ties with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and said that Karabakh has always been part of the European family. The European Union has indicated its intention to establish direct contacts with Nagorno-Karabakh in an apparent effort to step ...

Tbilisi and Baku have agreed to make a joint bid to host UEFA European Football Championship, said President Saakashvili while addressing the legislative body of Azerbaijan, Milli Majlis, on March ۷. Poland and Ukraine will host the European football championship this year and EURO ۲۰۱۶ will be hosted by France. The bidding process to host EURO ۲۰۲۰ ...

Russia's leadership "can say what it wants", but it's NATO allies which decide on membership and "step-by-step" Georgia is getting closer to the Alliance "regardless of what other parties might say," James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, said. The NATO ...

Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of an opposition Georgian Dream coalition, is ranked at ۱۵۳ position in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires with an estimated worth of USD ۶.۴ billion. Ivanishvili's wealth in last year's similar list was estimated at USD ۵.۵ billion. Ivanishvili, who is now French citizen awaiting a response from the ...

Russia’s Prime Minister and president-elect, Vladimir Putin, speaks with journalists, March ۷. Photo from Russian PM’s website. Russia’s President-elect Vladimir Putin told journalists on March ۷, Russia “has special relations with the Georgian people” and expressed hope that “a solution will be found” to improve ties ...

Unilaterally removal of visa rules for Russian citizens is “a sign of strength” rather than of weakness, President Saakashvili said on March ۲ at a meeting with a group of students in his residence in Tbilisi. “We know that Russia is a problem. They have masterminded several dozen of terrorist acts against us in last two-three years, but ...

Russian citizens will be able to enter and stay without a visa in Georgia for ۹۰ days, according to a presidential decree number ۱۴۹. Publishing date of the presidential decree on the state online registry of legal acts is February ۲۹ - a day after President Saakashvili said in his annual state of the nation address that Georgia would unilaterally ...

The NATO-Georgia Commission met in Brussels on March ۷ to discuss “how to enhance Georgia’s partnership and connectivity with the Alliance,” NATO said in a press release. The NATO-Georgia Commission is a main mechanism through which NATO-Georgia cooperation is supervised, including implementation of reform targets set in Georgia's Annual ...

Voters in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia will go to the polls on March ۱۰ to elect ۳۵-member Parliament. The legislative body in Abkhazia is elected for a five-year term and its members are elected through a majoritarian system in single-mandate constituencies. Elections in the breakaway region are denounced as illegitimate by Tbilisi ...