Director of Serbia’s Government Office for Kosovo, Aleksandar Vulin, announced publicly his dissatisfaction with the agreement between the Serbian and Kosovar authorities on normalisation of the relations and announced he had handed in his resignation.

United States President Barack Obama met with Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the White House Tuesday amid a flurry of meetings with regional leaders on Syria’s increasingly bloody stalemate.

Russia will welcome all measures by the Georgian government directed at improving ties between the peoples of the two states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “We will welcome all kinds of measures by the Georgian leadership, and we will