The “Old Fox”, former president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze came up with another, yet somewhat belated sensational statement. In an interview with Asaval Dasavali paper he declared that his “worst ever fault before the people and the country is transfer of the power to Mikheil Saakashvili”.

The situation turned out to be an expected one: François Hollande preferred relations with Turkey to the Armenian issue. At a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared: “As to events of 1915, we will not demonstrate the position of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration.”

As expected, the recent meeting in Geneva on Syria yielded no results. No party was eager to assume responsibility for Bashar al-Asad’s dismissal; this provision was never mentioned. The opposition was indeed discontented, its major demand being immediate resignation of the Syrian president and transfer of the power to namely opposition, which has been known so far only by terrorist attacks and persecution of Christians and Shia.

Georgia's foreign policy is based on three major points: U.S. opinion, Azerbaijan and Turkey's moves, and anti-Russian statements. Also, the latters sometimes seem to reflect Saakashvili's personal dislike after the disgraceful August 2008 rather than actual attitude of the Georgian society.

Another round of talks between the six world powers and Iran failed to reach consensus on Tehran’s nuke program. The parties did not manage to come to an agreement in principle, their stances being absolutely opposite. Iran believes it has the right for nuclear energy, and he can’t be denied this, while the West opposes it, stirred by Israel’s artificial concerns.

Azerbaijan’s hopes that the Eurovision Song Contest would open wide if not the whole world but at least Europe for it, were not to come true.The European eyes did not fail to notice Aliyev’s dictatorship behind a pompous façade. According to some estimates, Azerbaijan spent USD 3 billion to host the Eurovision; still, the resolution on "Violation of human rights, democracy and the rule of law" adopted by the European Parliament on May 24 says that all actions aimed at suppressing the freedom of expression and assembly in Azerbaijan should stop immediately. Azerbaijan's hosting of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in its capital Baku on May 26 should be an opportunity for it to show its commitment to democracy and human rights, it adds.

The recent events in Syria, in particular, the Hula massacre should make the West seriously consider the addressee of its support and the expediency of a civil war in Syria which has already started. Actually, it started back a year ago, under the mask of anti-Asad statements.Well, this time NATO has not interfered so far; lessons of Libya are well learnt. Still, the Western media depict Bashar Asad as a monster who annihilates his own people in an attempt to preserve the power. Even western media reports are now referring to the intercommunity tensions behind this situation; every time the UN intends to discuss the crisis in Syria, insurgents launch another attack to demonstrate they are still there.

Afghanistan, namely the country’s future after withdrawal of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was the key topic of the NATO summit held last week in Chicago. NATO has already spotted its reputation in Afghanistan; in early 2012, a videotape was published online featuring US military’s jeering at Afghan, allegedly Taliban corpses. Several weeks later, a large number of religious literature, including dozens of copies of Koran, the Islamic holy book, were burnt on the territory of the U.S. military base in Bagram.

The NATO summit in Chicago did not in fact yield anything new, except for the Afghanistan ruling which was the main reason for the gathering, actually. The agenda featured withdrawal of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that did not succeed in its mission, which was admittedly doomed to failure.

François Hollande became the first socialist president after François Mitterrand who finished his two-term tenure in 1995. Hollande won the 2012 elections not because of people’s admiration for socialists, but rather due to their aversion to Nicolas Sarkozy who did his best to lose the battle.