Caucasus News Update – UNHCR inaugurates residential block for Iraqi refugees in Armenia (AlertNet)

UNHCR inaugurates residential block for Iraqi refugees in Armenia (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR UNHCR inaugurates “Social House” – a special residential centre with 46 apartments for Iraqi refugees in the southern Armenian village of Darbnik.

VTB Bank (Armenia) awards best customers of Armenian Water Sewerage Company (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Since the first drawing of lots the number of dutiful customers of the Armenian Water Sewerage Company increased by 3C per cent.

Dora Bakoyannis: Armenia plays an important role in ensuring security in South Caucasus (PanARMENIAN.Net)
OSCE hope, the advancement to be recorded at the forthcoming meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.

Armenian-Georgian relations on the level of diplomatic gestures (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Karen Bekaryan: Georgians have a stereotype that Yerevan is more interested in Armenian-Georgian relations than Tbilisi.

Saakashvili suspects Russia of planning to divide Georgia (Interfax)
TBILISI. June 3 (Interfax) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has accused the Russian authorities of planning to overthrow the Georgian government.

Second Russian soldier defects, Georgia says (KYIV Post)
The ministry granted him the status of asylum seeker. TBILISI (Reuters) – A second Russian soldier has defected from his unit in breakaway South Ossetia and asked for asylum in Georgia, Georgia said on Thursday.

Troops gather on Georgian border (Independent)
It’s easy to see how things could spiral out of control: the two sides are braced for combat. At Ergneti on Georgia’s border with South Ossetia, Georgian military police stand guard behind high barricades made of sandbags and two metre-high slabs of concrete. Out of sight barely 20 metres away, the forces of South Ossetia and Russia are mustered behind barricades of their own, their national …

N Caucasus abuse ‘widespread’ (BBC News)
Human rights abuses in the North Caucasus are giving the lie to Moscow’s claims of normalisation, Amnesty says.

Armenia: Saakashvili Visit to Yerevan Produces Lots of Smiles, Little Action (EurasiaNet)
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Armenia touting a “bright future” for bilateral relations. But now that his two-day visit is over, experts say the visit failed to make much headway on two issues that are a source of friction between the states — relations with Russia and the fate of ethnic Armenians in Georgia.

Georgian opposition leaders to seek intl support (Interfax)
TBILISI. July 3 (Interfax) – Georgian opposition leaders announced a plan to drum up international support for the opposition via a rally planned for the day late this month on which U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is due to arrive in Tbilisi for a visit.

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