


Permanent Mission of Georgia to the United Nations
New York, NY
December 22, 2011
Press Release
Georgia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste signed a joint protocol on the establishment of diplomatic and consular relations today.
By Helena Bedwell
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russia must remove its “illegal embassies” from two occupied regions before diplomatic relations, which he severed after a 2008 war, can be restored.
By Helena Bedwell
Georgian wine exports increased last year to $54.1 million, the most since Russia imposed a trade embargo in 2006.
By Giorgi Lomsadze
Georgia’s richest housewife has set aside the cares of hearth and home and walked onto the political stage in a big way. Make way for Ekaterine Khvedelize, the wife of billionaire-cum-opposition-politician Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Valery Dzutsev
On January 22, the Circassian activist organization Adyge Khase-Circassian Parliament met in Adygea’s capital Maikop and resolved to hold a conference on the repatriation of Circassians from Syria. The conference is expected to take place in Adygea on February 11.
By Lénaïc Vaudin d'Imécourt
Negotiations toward a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) will be initiated between the European Union and Georgia and Moldova in early 2012, the European Commission announced, on 5 December. The two agreements will be part of a broader association agreement that the two Eastern countries have been negotiating since July 2010, under the Eastern Partnership framework and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
By Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough was a Reuters Moscow correspondent, and is now Caucasus Editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. He is author of 'Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus'
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