Filip Dimitrov, who was Bulgaria's first non-Communist prime minister for just over a year in 1991 and 1992, has been tipped as likely to get the new job of EU representative to Georgia.

Appointments to the EU's new "Foreign Action Service" are to be announced next week by foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Dimitrov has a mixed reputation in his home country. While setting Bulgraia on its western path and strengthening human rights and starting market reforms he is also widely believed to have contributed to the country's sharp econonomic contraction at the start of the 1990s by mishandling many aspects of the transition.

Georgia and Iran have entered into talks on agricultural co-operation, including wheat imports into the Caucasian state, reports Gruzia Online.

Georgia's devolping relationship with Iran excited interest earlier this year after Mikheil Saakashvili spoke warmly of the country - which backed Georgia against Russia in the war of August 2008 - and there was talk of a visit by Iranian president Ahmedinejad.

Georgia has recently seen a sharp increase in the price of staples, including bread, brought on by a currency devaluation - itself fed by diminishing foreign investment -  and a global increase in wheat prices. Seemingly wheat is also in short supply in the country - Russia has embargoed all foreign wheat exports and ministers have emphasised the importance of new import sources.

Mikheil Saakashvili has predicted ten million tourists will visit Georgia by 2015 - almost a ten-fold increase - or a 58% annual growth: a figure no major tourist destination has ever been able to sustain over such a period.

The bizarre prediction ranks alongside the Georgian president's June 2010 claim that the country would be as rich as Dubai in "five, six or seven years": meaning a minimum of 39% annual economic growth.

Currently around one million people visit Georgia from abroad ever year - but not all of these are tourists.

It is possible to see large increases in tourism numbers: between 1990 and 2007 Turkey emerged as one of the world's leading tourism destinations, with visitor numbers rising from around 5 million to 22 million in that period: but that is just 9% annual growth.

The world's boom tourist destination in this period was China, with visitors rising from around 10 million to 55 million: 11% per annum growth. Georgia's tourism volumes would have to grow over three times better than that to come close to Saakashvili's target - and all this in a time where economic relations with the traditional tourism source for the Caucasus state, Russia, are in the deep freeze.

Poland's new president, Bronislaw Komorowski, has signalled that he will not take the same uncritical attitude to Mikheil Saakasvili as his predecessor Lech Kaczyński, who died in a shock air crash in April this year.

Asked by Polish newspaper "Republic" (Rzeczpospolita) if the Georgians could count on him to show the same support as his predecessor he says "certainly not. Because I do not go abroad only because I am asked to by the the President of Georgia."

He does add, though, that "Poland should not give up what is one of the principles: we support the indivisibility of the territory of Georgia."