Georgian President Visits France
On November 7, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili visited France, where she will participate in two international forums. One of them is the "World Forum of Democracy," which began in Strasbourg, in the Council of Europe. It has been held since 2012 and aims to discuss the challenges facing democracy and ways to respond to them. According to the European Council, the President of Georgia is among the guests who will participate in the forum's opening.
According to the President's administration, Salome Zurabishvili will meet with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maria Pejčinović Burić, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tini Cox, and the Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrin Jakobsdottir, in Strasbourg.
On November 11, the President of Georgia will participate in the "Paris Peace Forum," which will be held in the French capital for the fifth time this year and will focus on preventing multicrisis and destructive polarization in the world.
Georgian and Armenian PMs Hold Phone Call
A phone conversation took place between the Prime Ministers of Georgia and Armenia. According to the administration of the Georgian government, Irakli Gharibashvili and Nikol Pashinian "discussed various issues of the cooperation agenda" of the two countries.
In addition, the Prime Minister of Armenia informed his Georgian counterpart about the results of the tripartite meeting held in Sochi on October 31, which was attended by the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia. Irakli Gharibashvili and Nikol Pashinian also exchanged opinions about close cooperation in the region and current issues.
The phone call follows their earlier communication on September 13, when the Georgian PM confirmed that Georgia is ready to "actively mediate for de-escalation and peace in the region."
The phone calls are overshadowed by rumors in the Armenian media that a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be signed in Tbilisi by the end of November or the beginning of December, and preparatory work in this regard is already actively underway in Georgia. The information was first leaked by the Armenian news website Graparak.
If Tbilisi is chosen as a place of signing, Georgia can become “the mediator and symbol of pan-Caucasian peace, while the entire South Caucasus is [actually] handed over to Turkey as an operator of the West’s interests in this region. According to our information, active preparations are being made in Georgia for the meeting between Aliyev and Pashinyan and the signing of the document heralding the era of peace.”
The newspaper also revealed that the treaty would involve Armenia’s withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia would recognize Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. This would include depriving its inhabitants of Armenian citizenship and, most of all, funding. Yerevan will be only able to carry out projects of a charitable and social nature.
