Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with Quartet Envoy Tony Blair that the Middle East issue is not easy to solve. “The reason for this claim is the 60-year-long continuity of the middle east story”, Mottaki added in his short conversation with the former British …
Read More »Ahmadinejad: World Arrogance Seeking Dominance in Region
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that the world arrogance is seeking to dominate the region through Zionism and militarism. “The arrogance is seeking to dominate the region by means of Zionism and militarism,” Ahmadinejad said, alluding to US and its western allies. Speaking in a meeting with …
Read More »Western Bodies in Bosnia “Dead Horse” – Lajcak
The outgoing international peace envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak, said he is leaving his post and the troubled country because the international bodies there are a “dead horse”, doing nothing while rival local leaders held the country back. Speaking in the Telering talk-show program at OBN Television on …
Read More »EULEX Restores North Kosovo Customs Points
Police from the European Union law and justice mission in Kosovo have set up two customs control points in north Kosovo, almost one year after a crowd of angry Serbs burnt down the border posts in reaction to the Albanian majority’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The two border points, …
Read More »Macedonia Won’t Open EU Talks Before July
Macedonia will not start European Union accession talks during the Czech presidency that runs until the end of June, Czech deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar told local media. The Czechs would be happy to see this happening, Pojar told the “Evrozum” show on A2 TV late on Sunday, but “this …
Read More »Bosnia Serb Party Leaves Coalition, Govt Stable
The junior partner in the Bosnian Serb ruling coalition, the Party of Democratic Progress, PDP, said it was walking out of the government led by the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, and going into the opposition. The walkout does not affect the stability of the government in the Serb-dominated …
Read More »Gunmen kidnap American U.N. official in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan – Gunmen abducted an American official of the U.N. refugee agency on Monday after shooting dead his driver in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said. Police identified the official as John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Quetta. He …
Read More »Cairo court says gas exports to Israel can continue
CAIRO – A Cairo court ruled on Monday that Egyptian gas exports to Israel can continue, pending a review of a November court verdict that the exports should stop. The government had ignored the November verdict anyway and the Israeli company which buys the gas has not complained of any …
Read More »India says Pakistan seems serious on Mumbai probe
NEW DELHI – Pakistan seems serious about investigating the Mumbai attacks and has sought clarifications on a dossier of evidence from India, but still is not doing enough to tackle militancy, India’s national security adviser said. “What I am aware of is that after the receipt of the dossier by …
Read More »Kazakhstan to nationalize top banks as crisis bites
ASTANA – Kazakhstan announced plans on Monday to effectively nationalize two of its leading banks as the global financial crisis tightened its grip on Central Asia’s biggest economy. The government said it will buy 78.14 percent of shares in the biggest bank, BTA, which has assets of $28 billion. BTA, …
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