Zurab Pataridze, former Georgian envoy to Turkey, has been approved as ambassador to Kazakhstan by the parliament of the country. 

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Cyprus issue should be solved in order to advance NATO-EU cooperation.

UN mediator in the Greek-Macedonian name issue, Matthew Nimitz, will ask Athens and Skopje come out with official position on his latest proposal by the beginning of June.