OSCE chair Cassis visits Georgia as Tbilisi seeks the 2027 chairmanship
German-language Caucasus Watch reports that Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, the OSCE chair-in-office, met Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili on October 16 and visited the administrative boundary line with the Tskhinvali region. The visit came as Georgia makes its first bid to chair the OSCE, for 2027; reports cited by the outlet say some EU member states prefer Cyprus.