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 Georgia celebrates Unity Day today. The holiday was announced by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Sept. 1, 2008 after the war with Russia in August 2008. Over 1.5 million people from throughout Georgia gathered on Freedom Square two years ago to listen to the president. He said that Sept. 1 would hence forth be known as Unity Day. |
 The holding of the upcoming OSCE summit in Astana will improve Kazakhstan's credibility in the international community and provide an impetus to the country's development, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a joint parliamentary session today. |
 Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday welcomed opening of a case in Denmark against media organs supporting terrorist PKK organization, Anadolu Agency reported. Foreign Ministry statement referred to a decision made by Copenhagen City Prosecutor's Office to open a case against Roj-TV and Mesopotamia Broadcast A/S METV company on charges that they promoted and supported the activities of the terrorist organization PKK. |
 U.S. President Barack Obama is to declare the end of combat operations in Iraq in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, saying " tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," according to excerpts of the speech released by the White House, APA reports quoting news.xinhuanet.com website. |
 A passenger aircraft crashed in the Iranian Mashad Airport this morning. The TU-154 aircraft's undercarriage caught fire as a result of damage of tire chassis, Iranian news agency İLNA reports. The fire was extinguished by fire men and passengers were evacuated. The Tu-154 aircraft is owned by Iranian airline "KİSH AİR". No injured and dead are reported. |
 Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi says fuel for the Tehran research reactor will be produced within a year, Press TV reported. He also stressed the country's need for 20 percent-enriched uranium required for civilian purposes and noted that Iran has been forced to produce 20 percent-enriched uranium for medical and therapeutic purposes, IRNA quoted Salehi as saying on Monday. |
 In the second half of October the PACE delegation will arrive in Azerbaijan to monitor the parliamentary elections, the organization told Trend. The mission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will consist of five persons and stay in the country from Oct.19 to 22. |
 Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed on presence of Turkey and Brazil in nuclear talks with the West, ILNA reported. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in an interview with the Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Der Spiegel on Monday, ''We want to talk to the so-called Vienna Group about the exchange of fuel We deliver low enriched uranium in return for 20 percent enriched fuel for our research reactor in Tehran.'' |
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said vigilance of regional nations' resistance fronts which spread from Lebanon to Iran would overwhelm all enemies, ISNA reports. "Iran and Lebanon share heavy responsibilities and missions against Arrogant powers and enemies of humanity," he said in a meeting with some officials from Palestine's Amal Movement in Tehran. |
 An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale took place near the Damghan city of Iran's Simnan Province at 23:53 last night , Trend quoted FARS News Agency. The quake killed 3 people, including 2 kids, and injured 40. |
 The United States allocated $9.5 million in assistance to the displaced persons in Kyrgyzstan, White House said. US President Barack Obama issued a special order for that. Earlier the United States announced that it intended to help to the displaced persons suffered from the confrontations in Kyrgyzstan. |
 Heavy rains caused landslides and floods in the Turkish Black Sea province of Rize today. Seven people are dead and six are missing, the Cihan news agency reported. According to reports from the affected areas, the natural disaster has caused serious damage to residential and administrative buildings. There is no electricity or water in several areas. |
 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has today said that Turkey, even temporarily, will not open its border with Armenia during NATO exercises, APA reports quoting DHA news agency. "The exercises, which will be held in September in Armenia, take entirely humanitarian character. They are connected with earthquakes or natural disasters," Turkish FM said. |
 "Education will remain the first priority issue in Kyrgyzstan," Roza Otunbayeva, President of transition period, said Thursday at a meeting with teaching staff and students at the International University in Central Asia in the town of Tokmak, news agency "24.kg" reported. |
 An incident involving the use of arms took place in the center of Yerevan, near Arabkir military commissariat at Azatutyan Avenue, APA reports quoting Armenia Today. Yerevan’s police chief and other officers arrived at site immediately. Witnesses said several young men in physical uniform arriving in the territory in Jeep started to shoot out crying “no one can play a trick with us”. |
 US Department of State declared that the issue on the status of the Russian military base in Armenia was the matter of Russia and Armenia, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told journalists, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti. ”I think this is a matter concerning only the two countries - Russia and Armenia. |
 Iran must demonstrate the peaceful nature of its nuclear testing as a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban member, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization's (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission Tibor Toth told Trend today. |
 Conrad Ray Burns, former United States Senator from Montana, only the second Republican to represent Montana in the Senate since the passage in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution and the longest-serving Republican senator in Montana history, expressed his full support to the candidacy of Matthew Bryza as US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, APA’s Washington DC correspondent reports. |
 Turkish Prime Minister's helicopter made an emergency landing near the city of Ordu after Recep Tayyip Erdogan felt bad, the Yeni Safak newspaper reported. The helicopter departed from the city of Samsun to Ordu, where Erdogan was supposed to make a speech before the people due to the forthcoming referendum Sept.12. |
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed his special envoys for Middle East, Asia, Afghanistan and Caspian Sea affairs, Press TV reported. In separate decrees issued on Sunday, Esfandiyar Rahim-Mashaei was appointed as the presidential envoy for Middle East and Hamid Baqaei for Asian affairs. Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh was assigned as the special envoy for Caspian Sea issues and Abolfazl Zohrehvand is Iran's representative for Afghanistan affairs, Mehr News Agency reported. |
 Bushehr nuclear power plant of Iran has started operation today, APA reports. A solemn ceremony was held at the plant. Vice-president of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi and Chief of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko also attended the ceremony. |
 “In Eurasia, Moscow is using its entire geopolitical toolbox to shift the balance of power in the region. Its tools include diplomacy (including recognition of the self-proclaimed republics), strategic-information operations, arms sales, status-of-forces agreements, base construction - even regime change - to secure its "sphere of exclusive interests”, senior research fellow in Russian and Eurasian studies and international energy policy at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Policy at the Heritage Foundation Ariel Cohen said, APA reports. |
 Iran will not deliver grain to Armenia if it doesn’t ascertain its relations with Azerbaijan, member of the Iranian parliament from Erdebil, head of the Iran-Azerbaijan inter-parliamentary friendship group Seyid Kazim Musavi told APA exclusively. He said droughts damaged 20 percent of cornfields in Russia this year. |
 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has lifted the state of emergency on three more regions as fires abated, leaving one region still under alert, the Kremlin announced Friday. The emergency was lifted in the Moscow region as well as in ishny Novgorod and Mordwinia as firefighters gained control over the remaining fires, the Kremlin said, according to Interfax. |
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