Context on External Relations
News Lawmakers brawl as Georgian Parliament considers ‘foreign agent’ bill

Legislators debate bill requiring organisations that accept overseas funds to register as foreign agents or face fines.

  • April 15, 2024
News The Take: How Iran’s attack on Israel unfolded

Iran launches a direct military attack in response to Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

  • April 15, 2024
News Western countries urge restraint as Israel war cabinet weighs Iran response

Several allies warn against an escalation after Iran’s weekend attack on Israel increases fears of wider regional war.

  • April 15, 2024
News Spain’s Sanchez says ‘disproportionate’ Israeli Gaza attacks a world threat

Prime minister pushes for recognition of a Palestinian state, says such a ‘just’ move would be in European Union’s interest.

  • April 10, 2024
News As Gaza is pummelled, is Serbia secretly sending weapons to Israel?

According to media reports, arms exports have grown during wartime in another sign of ever warming ties.

  • April 10, 2024
Publications Uzbekistan will gather folklorists and expect tourists from all over the world in May

Uzbekistan On 1-7 May, the ancient and unique land of Surkhandarya will host the traditional international “Boysun Bakhori” (Baysun Spring) folklore festival

Preparations for the festival, which will unite bearers, performers and masters of folklore and ethnographic art from all over the world, are being carried out in a completely new spirit. In the modern tourist complex in Bibishirin mahalla, where its main events will take place, all conditions are being created for performances of folklore and ethnographic groups, national sports games and other various performances. READ MORE

  • April 10, 2024
Publications Geopolitics of the South Caucasus Intensifies

Vusal GULIYEV By Vasif HUSEYNOV, PhD, Head of Department, AIR Center, Adjunct Lecturer, ADA and Khazar Universities, Baku

From March 17 to 19, Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), embarked on his first tour of the South Caucasus, visiting Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan (NATO, March 19). During this tour, he engaged with each country’s political leadership. In Azerbaijan, he also met with the defence and foreign ministers. Stoltenberg’s visit occurred amid deteriorating relations between Russia and Armenia, an ongoing stalemate in the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process, and political uncertainty in Georgia before parliamentary elections in October 2024. Each one of these situations points toward the possibility of renewed confrontation and prolonged instability in the South Caucasus. READ MORE

  • April 5, 2024
News Protests called as Georgia revives controversial ‘foreign agents’ law

Governing party hopes to pass legislation, dropped last year amid mass demonstrations, before October elections.

  • April 3, 2024
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