Until recently Turkey used to be the only country in the region, with which Georgia held more or less normal relations, not counting Azerbaijan. But the latest demarche of the Georgian Foreign Ministry showed that actually Official Tbilisi cannot live in harmony with her neighbors. First Georgia strained relations Armenia, then Iran, and now Turkey. It is possible that tomorrow Azerbaijan may replenish this range of "bad neighbors". Thus far Saakashvili vows fidelity to "brother Ilham", but no one knows how long he will be able to keep it. It's quite understandable that the Georgian President's steps are all directed against Russia, but consequently they are also directed against the Russian-Turkish alliance.

The successive meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Prague once again was unproductive. Such was, at least, the impression of the statements, which as always, were filled with on-duty, non-committal phrases. In a word, no "breakthrough" occurred. Nevertheless, Mathew Bryza as always stayed true to himself and again said inopportunely that "an agreement on the Basic Principles was achieved", which immediately caused sharp reaction in Stepanakert.