France on Monday condemned a Syrian air raid into Lebanon, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had seriously violated the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon. “The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in

The next trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov, Ahmet Davutoglu and Maya Panjikidze will be held in Batumi on March 28, Mammadyarov said at a briefing on Tuesday.

Turkey’s prime minister says he hopes this week’s Kurdish spring festival will herald the start of a peaceful resolution of the nearly 30-year-old conflict with Kurdish rebels. Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Tuesday, ahead of Thursday’s spring festivities

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia – Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The meeting will be held in New York in the frames of the debates on Kosovo during the UN Security Council meeting. The UN Security Council will debate …

Enlargement Commissioner Fuele told Kosovo leaders to up the fight against corruption in order to boost its chances of opening a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Brussels. “Kosovo has to show even more courage. More efforts

Genc Mucaj, Albania’s new ambassador to Turkey, presented his credentials to President Abdullah Gul on Monday afternoon. The press was invited to attend the ambassador’s presentation of his credentials to the president.

European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin has said that “Unregulated relations between Serbia and Kosovo would block European integrations but what is more important, they would put a red flag on Serbia in the eyes of foreign investors”.

The Turkish and American foreign ministers discussed the developments in Iraq and Cyprus over the phone on March 16. The Kerry-Davutoğlu talk was focused on the developments in Iraq as tension between Iraqi

Stefan Fuele, the European Union commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, will make an official visit to Belgrade on Monday. The visit comes before the talks that will be hold this week between the Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said in Brussels on Friday that the leaders of the bloc asked the union’s foreign ministers to discuss the arms embargo on Syria on March 22-23. “We agreed to task our foreign ministers to assess the situation as a matter of priority, already at …