EU High Representative Catherine Ashton Wednesday welcomed the signing in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou of a peace deal between the Malian authorities and the main rebel group, National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).

Georgian-Ukrainian relations were discussed during a meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and Ukrainian Foreign Minister and OSCE chairman Leonid Kozhara in Tbilisi.

Slovenia is in favor of giving Serbia an EU talks start date as soon as possible, Serbian and Slovenian FMs Ivan Mrkić and Karl Erjavec have said. Slovenia is convinced Serbia deserves to get a date