International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN)

Despite all the difficulties, Georgia should engage in talks with Russia, Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said during his visit to Tbilisi on July 15. Kouchner’s visit came five weeks after Saakashvili met with French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, in Paris. He reiterated support f

BRUSSELS -- The European Union appears on the brink of reversing a controversial plan to scrap its 12 special representatives to places ranging from the South Caucasus, Moldova, and Central Asia to Afghanistan and the Great Lakes of Africa, officials in Brussels say.

OF THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OSLO, 6 to 10 JULY 2010 RESOLUTION ON THE RIGHT OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND  REFUGEES TO RETURN TO THEIR PLACE OF ORIGIN

The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton will visit Georgia on July 15-16. She will launch the negotiations for an EU – Georgia Association Agreement, visit the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and meet with the leade

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a robust show of support for Georgia today by vowing to uphold its "territorial integrity" and voicing opposition to its inclusion in a Russian "sphere of influence." The blunt message, delivered at a joint news conference with the Georgian president

EVENTS OF 2009 Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili faced a political crisis as thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets in the capital, Tbilisi, in early April 2009 demanding his resignation and early presidential elections. Protests lasted for two months, before opposit

Georgian opposition parties, legal experts, and NGOs are continuing their last-ditch battle to prevent the formal adoption by parliament of a new draft constitution formulated in such a way as to enable President Mikheil Saakashvili to retain supreme power as prime minister once his second preside

The European Union has announced that it is beginning talks to strengthen ties with Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia that will eventually result in formal association agreements. Those agreements will provide a framework for deepened cooperation between Brussels and the three ex-Soviet states on a

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy was founded in 1974 by Professor Hans J. Morgenthau and others. It is a nonprofit, activist organization dedicated to the resolution of conflicts that threaten U.S. interests.

June 21, 2010 YEREVAN -- Peter Semneby, who has served as the European Union's special representative to the South Caucasus since February 2006, is seeking to downplay fears in the region that the EU is looking to reduce its diplomatic presence in the region. Speaking to RFE/RL's Armenian Service

Pierre Lellouche has been the French Minister for European Affairs since June 2009. Before that he was President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as France’s special representative in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today his focus includes foreign policy, the financial crisis and the Turkish

Georgia’s journey toward democracy started in the late 1980s and went through several major hurdles after the country gained independence in 1991. The civil war and ethnic conflicts shaped a Georgian “failed state” in the early 1990s. The ethnic wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia subsequen