Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan summons German ambassador ahead of president’s visit to Baku
The spat appears to have originated from a now deleted Instagram post from the German president containing the Nagorno-Karabakh flag.
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Armenia
Germany wants peace in the South Caucasus, President Steinmeier says during historic Armenian visit
It is the first time a German president has visited Armenia, in a trip that will also see him travel to Azerbaijan.
Georgia
Germany imposes new entry bans on Georgian officials over protest crackdown
The identities of those sanctioned are unknown.
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgian opposition interpret German Embassy post about Berlin Wall as ‘warning’ to Georgian Dream
Georgia’s opposition groups have interpreted a German Embassy post commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall as a warning to the ruling Georgian Dream party. The German Embassy has denied the post’s relation to current events in Georgia. ‘Peaceful revolution is possible. The fall of the Berlin Wall is an example of this’, the Embassy wrote in a post on Facebook on 9 November. ‘For decades, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had its citizens locked in a system of oppression and violence. The
European Union
NATO declaration cuts reference to Georgia’s membership prospects
The NATO declaration adopted at a Washington summit does not reference Georgia’s path towards membership, as Georgia’s rift with the West continues to deepen. In the declaration adopted on Wednesday, Georgia is mentioned only once, in a call on Russia to ‘withdraw all of its forces from the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, stationed there without their consent’. The 2008 Bucharest and 2018 Brussels Summit Declaration stated that NATO ‘welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirat
Belgium
Georgia criticises EU and Ukraine over wanted former UNM officials
Georgia has requested that Germany and the EU detain and extradite Zurab Adeishvili, a wanted former United National Movement (UNM) official, after he took part in an official visit to Brussels and Berlin as part of a Ukrainian delegation. Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office submitted its request for Adeishvili’s extradition on Monday. Adeishvili is wanted in Georgia on charges of abuse of power and the humiliation and inhumane treatment of prisoners while serving as Prosecutor General and then Ju
Chechnya
Russia designates Chechen activist in exile ‘foreign agent’
Russia’s Justice Ministry has reportedly added Aslan Arzuyev, a Chechen human rights activist based in Germany, to its register of ‘foreign agents’. According to the ministry, Arzuyev ‘made calls for action, the results of which could lead to a violation of the territorial integrity of Russia’, ‘disseminated false information aimed at creating a negative image’ of the country and the army, spoke against the war in Ukraine, and created material in collaboration with‘foreign agents’. Arzuye
