Eurasia

The U.N. hopes to relaunch talks next week on ending the four-decade division of Cyprus after the island’s Greek and Turkish communities agreed on a roadmap, a spokesman said Feb. 8. “We are hoping to hold a meeting at the beginning of next week… we are hoping for a meeting as soon …

The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Arrived in Baghdad on Monday. A statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited “Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hoshyar Zebari, received at Baghdad International Airport

Syrian government and opposition delegates are starting a fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks. The first face-to-face meetings mediated by U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar

Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Rodić conferred in Belgrade with NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Richard Shirreff. According to a statement from the Serbian MoD, they spoke about “regional cooperation and Serbia’s role in the creation of a secure environment in the Balkans.”

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has expressed hopes that the issue of Bulgaria’s accession to Schengen will be resolved by end-2014. Vigenin, as cited by the BGNES news agency, told journalists Friday that no decision on Bulgaria’s Schengen

Greece supports the resumption of talks for a “viable and fair” solution to the Cyprus issue, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday. A joint declaration that will pave the way for restarting the stalled talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders is likely

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili will be on his first official visit to Azerbaijan on February 12-13, the Georgian Embassy in Azerbaijan said. 

A special court trying Pervez Musharraf for treason on Friday summoned the beleaguered former dictator to appear on February 18 and warned a non-bailable arrest warrant would be issued if he failed to do so.

Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says the government has decided to take part in a second round of peace talks in Geneva, set to begin next week.

Focus of the United Nations Security Council this month will be issues related to Syria, said Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite of Lithuania and Security Council President for the month of February. She said that the 15 members will hold informal consultations on the chemical weapons situation in Syria, and will hear …