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Decision due in March on supplies for Nabucco. Azerbaijan has promised to supply the European Union with substantial volumes of gas through the planned southern pipeline...

Deployment "breaks" ceasefire terms. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has said that Russian deployment of an anti-aircraft missile system in Abkhazia, part...

Relations between Turkey and neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan remain complicated. Nowhere is Turkey's pursuit of ‘zero problems' in its neighbourhood harder than in...

How justified is disillusionment with Georgia? Six years ago on 2 November, Georgians went to the polls in what would prove to be a vote profoundly marred by fraud. Twenty...

Major issues need to be resolved before the countries' parliaments can ratify deal. Armenia and Turkey on Saturday (10 October) signed a protocol to establish diplomatic...

One year has passed since the conflict between Russia and Georgia and the picture is still foggy. One year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause....

Governments trade angry words, but replay of last August's war appears unlikely. On the eve of the first anniversary of their short war over South Ossetia, Russia and...

EU now sole international mission in Georgia after UN and OSCE teams pull out. After the war last summer, an informal division of labour emerged between three international...

European foreign ministers approve eastern partnership and keep invitation open for Belarus. European Union foreign ministers today endorsed an ‘Eastern Partnership' with...

Watchdog's report finds all sides involved in the Georgian conflict violated human rights and are now failing to investigate crimes. Both the Russian and Georgian military...

Talks could almost halve the price of EU visas paid by Georgians. EU ministers today formally agreed to launch negotiations aimed at reducing the costs Georgians pay...

Tbilisi says its focus is on refugees and presses EU to make clear to Russia that it is not ready for ‘business as usual'. TBILISI, Georgia | Georgia's foreign minister...

Technical meetings will be followed by start of full talks on 2 December. Russia and the European Union will resume talks on a strategic partnership agreement on 2 December...

Partnership agreement, irritants in economic relations and the aftermath of the conflict in Georgia will also be touched on in the EU-Russia summit. Although the EU's...

EU and Russian leaders meet in Nice; only Lithuania opposed resuming talks. The EU and Russia will discuss the resumption of partnership talks at a summit in Nice, France,...

Resuming talks with Russia before it has withdrawn its troops from Georgia would be a disaster. How slow we were to wake up to the first war of the 21st century. How long it...

International donors promise to provide Georgia with more post-war aid than World Bank estimates will be needed. Georgia today secured promises of €3.4 billion in...

International observers say the re-election of Ilham Aliev as president war marred by “a lack of robust competition”. Azerbaijan's presidential elections, held on 15...

Russia and Georgia fail to agree on what role South Ossetia and Abkhazia should play in peace talks. Talks on the future of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have broken down...