Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 12 percent year-on-year in January-August after contracting 5.6 percent in the same period last year.

The London-listed Anglo Asian Mining produces gold at Gedabek, Gosha and other mines in Azerbaijan in a joint venture with the state.

The document provides for the expansion of bilateral cooperation in the field of oil and gas, petrochemistry, renewable energy sources.

Subject to approval from the government of Azerbaijan, the deal, with an effective date of 1 July 2021, is expected to complete in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Little common ground has been found on the main issues separating the two ex-Soviet states – principally the restoration of blocked transit routes, now the focal point of attempts to move on from the hostilities.

The loan will allow Georgia to purchase 700,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccines, enough to inoculate around 300,000 people in the country of 3.7 million.