Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Idlib discord may spark renewed friction between Russia and Turkey following the failure of the Tehran summit to resolve the issue
Welcoming the Georgian Prime Minister, Mamuka Bakhtadze, to Yerevan the Armenian leader said that "the task is to bring the economic component in line with the level of political relations between the two nations".
Announcing the decision, Parliament Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said that the Georgian Dream had kept its promise not to support one of its own members for the post of president.
Officials of the de facto Abkhaz government insist that the death was the result of an accident, not a terrorist attack. The driver of the car that drove into the official convoy is reported to be a young Abkhaz. Law enforcement sources in Sukhumi say that he was under the influence of drugs.
"I can say with confidence that there are no unsolvable issues in our relations, and we, of course, today will discuss a very wide range of issues", the Armenian prime minister said at the start of his discussions with the Russian leader.
The NATO-Georgia Commission met at NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (5 September 2018) to discuss the situation on the ground in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and ongoing efforts to pursue peace.
British law enforcement agencies named two Russian nationals as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.