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Europe’s recommendation to grant Georgia candidate status for EU membership is “a very major step” that is goading the country’s political leaders to coalesce around a “new consensus” in favour of a European future, Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili told FRANCE 24.
Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomes Russian president Vladimir Putin to Kazakhstan with an official ceremony. The Russian leader's visit to Astana comes while Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi are in Uzbekistan, amid renewed diplomatic interest in the region. Central Asia's former Soviet republics have sought to diversify their partnerships as Moscow's sway over the region, which it considers as being under its sphere of influence, has waned since Russia began its assault in Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Moscow's Red Square to mark national Unity Day during a ceremony with the country's religious leaders, including the country's Jewish and Muslim representatives. The holiday marks the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces from Moscow in 1612.
The upper house of the Russian parliament has voted to rescind Russia's signing of a 1996 international nuclear test ban treaty. The treaty was never ratified by the US, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran or Egypt.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Jordan after meeting with Israel leaders in Jerusalem and Palestinian President in Ramallah earlier in the day. He is expected to meet with King Abdullah of Jordan on Wednesday. IMAGES
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