Opponents of the Syrian regime refused to meet with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Friday.
Read More »Japanese PM to visit India
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be on a three-day official visit to India starting January 25th during which Japan and India would review all aspects of their wide-ranging bilateral relationship, Indian Foreign Ministry
Read More »Serbia, Bulgaria pledge to boost partnership
Initiation of Serbia’s EU accession talks opens new possibilities for comprehensive deepening of the partnership between Serbia and Bulgaria.
Read More »France condemns use of violence in Ukraine
France will summon Ukrainian ambassador in Paris over the recent violence in Kiev. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has given instruction to the foreign ministry to summon the Ukrainian
Read More »Syrian gov’t envoys threatens to leave talks
Syrian government envoys threatened on Friday to leave a peace conference on ending the conflict should efforts to secure a face-to-face meeting with opposition representatives fail.
Read More »Indian FM, Kerry discuss diplomatic situation
The United States and India could soon reschedule a visit by the U.S. energy secretary that was cancelled because of a diplomatic row, New Delhi said after foreign minister Salman Khurshid met his counterpart U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday.
Read More »Egypt President says police state is over
Egypt’s military-backed interim president said Thursday that the country’s uprisings have put an end to the police state and to abuses, part of a campaign to rebrand the security forces amid a heavy handed crackdown on Islamists and other critics of the government.
Read More »French President to visit Turkey to discuss bilateral relations
French President François Hollande is preparing to pay a two-day official visit to Turkey on Jan. 27-28 upon the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül, to add new momentum to the relations between the two
Read More »Ban Ki-moon, Chinese FM discuss Syrian crisis
The UN said on Thursday that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Montreux, Switzerland to discuss the Syrian conflict.
Read More »Turkish EU Minister says membership is an indispensable goal
While describing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent visit to Brussels as “extremely successful,” the EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said EU membership is an “indispensable goal” for Turkey, despite certain flaws and mutual resentments.
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