Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili says Georgia has all practical tools to prepare for NATO membership, RIA Novosti reported. Georgia for the first time hosts the spring sitting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly which is being held from May 26 to 29. This is the fifth case in NATO’s history when the Assembly holds its session in non-member state of the alliance.
“We greatly support the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and their latest statement. We believe that there is no military solution for this conflict, and that the status-quo is no longer maintainable. We believe that the ceasefire agreement should be respected, we believe there is no military solution to this conflict and we believe that investigative mechanisms, also confidence building mechanisms should be implemented.”
“We got a 12-month calendar from them about the studies they made. We will make a study on this calendar with the Foreign Ministry and the EU Ministry,” the president said.
“Archbishop Aram Ateshian has announced about his readiness to give the lead of the Patriarchate to Garegin Bekchyan. On March 15, when the results of the election of the locum tenens were known, we expected that Ateshian would do that, but he stated that the State does not recognize the election of the locum tenens, remaining on the post,” he said.
While sitting in the car, Mr. Erdogan conferred with Muhsin Kose, his head of security, who leaned into the car’s rear door. After speaking with Mr. Erdogan, Mr. Kose talked into his earpiece, and three security personnel who were guarding the president’s car hurried toward the protest.
In addition, the Resolution noted that the Washington Metropolitan Police Department and other reports conrm that “the demonstrators did not instigate the violence,” and that this is the third instance of violence perpetrated in the U.S. by members of Turkish President Erdogan’s security detail.
“I will make it very clear to the Turkish president during our talks that it is indispensable for our soldiers to be able to be visited by members of the German Bundestag, as ours is a parliamentary military,” Merkel said as quoted by Deustche Welle.
“We are systematically beefing up our defense capabilities. I can say that over the past few years, the IRGC has built a third missile plant,” Hajiaadeh said in the city of Dezful, which had been the scene of violent clashes during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988, TASS reports.
From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Ofce Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova) and staff member of the Ofce of the OSCE CiO Personal Representative Martin Schuster (Germany).
Senior Islamic State militants including the group’s “minister of war” have been killed in Syrian army operations to the east of Aleppo, Syrian state media cited a military source as saying on Wednesday, Reuters reports.