By empty (4/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has once again insisted that the Iran nuclear problem should be resolved diplomatically. Meeting with a UN deputy secretary general for political affairs in Moscow on Tuesday, Lavrov \"placed special emphasis on the need to resolve this problem diplomatically. It was also pointed out that the principal efforts to clarify the remaining problems should be made by the IAEA, and Iran needs to actively cooperate with the agency,\" the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

By empty (4/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Six people, including a mother and her newborn baby, have been injured in two incidents in eastern Afghanistan, reportedly by American forces. Both the incidents took place in Khost province. A six-year-old boy was also injured in one of the incidents.

By empty (4/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgia wants to bring its relations with Russia back to normal, President Mikheil Saakashvili said at a Monday meeting with members of the parliamentary majority. Russia\'s latest decisions to ban the sale of Georgian agricultural products on the Russian market \"were certainly political,\" he said. \"We will do everything we can to help Georgia become stronger, both politically and economically, and continue to move forward,\" Saakashvili said.