Representatives of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), co-rapporteurs on Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark) and Boris Tsilevich (Latvia) arrived in Georgia earlier today.

President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev will award the ambassadors of Lebanon and Egypt with high state orders on the occasion of their retirement from the posts.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan and the Council of Ministers of Albania signed an agreement on cooperation in Baku on Monday. This is stated in the report of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan released on Monday.

France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius visited Mali on Friday where he revealed plans to start withdrawing French troop before elections in July. Paris plans to reduce its soldiers to 2,000 by

Turkish President Abdullah Gül praised the governments of Baltic nations Latvia and Lithuania on Thursday for their support of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, saying that they had publicly declared

Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania met with his Hungarian counterpart Csaba Hende during an official visit to Budapest.

OSCE announced that it will send hundreds of monitors to observe June’s national elections in Albania. An OSCE report says

As of Monday, Croatia has applied the standard rather than the light visa regime toward tourists from non-EU countries. The country was required to align its visa system

Macedonia has one week to present its progress in terms of the European integration, so as European Commissioner Stefan Fule to work out a positive report for the country, which will not bury down country’s hopes for being given a date to launch the EU accession talks.

Differences between Belgrade and Pristina are small but deep. This is what High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, said after the 12-hour negotiations between the two countries in Brussels.