Eurasia

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to support the formation of an international contact group that could lead to direct talks between the governments of Russia and Ukraine.

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Mrkić has arrived in Yerevan where he will confer with Armenian top officials over the next two days.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a telephone conversation on Saturday that the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity of Ukraine shall be protected at all costs.

United States President Barack Obama will welcome Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Ukraine at the White House on Wednesday, the White House announced Sunday.

Both chambers of the Russian parliament will approve a motion to join the Russian Crimea. This is the first official sign that Moscow supports the actions of the new authorities of the Crimea, who announced Thursday peninsula

The EU unilaterally open European market for products and manufacturers in Ukraine. Brussels has also approved the decision to sign a political party association agreement with Kiev “in the near future”.

Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Romania have agreed to support Serbia’s EU accession at a meeting in the Danube town of Ruse.

The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Truxtun is preparing for Black Sea military exercises with Bulgarian and Romanian naval forces. The ship departed from Greece early

Ukraine’s parliament began a procedure to dissolve the regional assembly in Crimea after it asked to join Russia, Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov said Thursday. 

Crimea’s Parliament voted to join Russia on March 6 and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula.