January, 2015

• 22 January

  Ukraine accuses Russia of sending over 9,000 troops to back separatists

  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that more than 9,000 Russian troops were backing Ukrainian separatist fighters that Moscow will be under pressure to reel in at high-stakes peace talks in Berlin. Poroshenko´s claims followed days of heavy fighting that has left an already shaky September truce in tatters …

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• 22 January

  Ukraine military withdraws from Donetsk airport

  Ukraine’s Defence Ministry says it has withdrawn its troops from the main terminal of Donetsk airport The defence ministry has said that the military has kept control of some areas of the airport where harsh fighting has been underway for the last few weeks. Six soldiers are believed to be …

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• 22 January

  NATO warns of stronger Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine

  NATO’s military leaders will re-establish contact with their Russian counterparts amid fighting in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels, according to NATO’s top military commander. NATO’s top military commander General Philip Breedlove told a news conference at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Thursday: “We have talked an awful lot about …

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• 22 January

  Algerian FM welcomes reconciliation agreement in South Sudan

  Algeria has welcomed Thursday, through its Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Abdelaziz Benali Cherif, the signing of the reconciliation agreement between the parties to the conflict in South Sudan, and hoped that this agreement would help reach a final solution to their dispute. “We welcome the signing, on Wednesday 21 January, of …

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• 22 January

  Malian FM hopes next round of talks to be decisive

  Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdoulay Diop expressed, Wednesday, the wish to see the next round of the inter-Malian negotiations enter a “decisive” phase and “not that of a debate” for the final settlement of the crisis in the country. “Today, it is no longer time for debate. Our wish …

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• 22 January

  Meeting focused on Mali peace held in Algiers

  A consultation meeting, bringing together the representatives of the mediation team, the movements of North Mali, Malian government and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), opened Thursday in Algiers.

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• 22 January

  Pakistan, Turkey to increase parliamentary cooperation

  Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Cemil ?i?ek during a meeting on Thursday agreed to further enhance interaction between the parliamentarians of the two brotherly countries and to share legislation experience. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 10th session …

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• 22 January

  Turkey aims to establish mutual understanding with Egypt

  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey and Egypt should come together to understand each other instead of having a battle of words. Davutoğlu underlined that Egypt is the “backbone” of stability in the region. “If Egypt is strong, stability in the region will be strong too. If Egypt …

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• 22 January

  Turkish PM says closing border with Syria is not easy to achieve

  Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey is unable to close its 510-mile-long border with Syria, which has been crossed by thousands of foreign terrorist volunteers. “We cannot put soldiers everywhere on the border. In any case, there isn’t any state on the other side [of the frontier],” Davutoğlu said on …

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• 22 January

  US, India extend nuclear talks

  India and the U.S. extended their talks in London by a day on Thursday to iron out the kinks in the way of operationalising the landmark civil nuclear deal with officials making all efforts to stitch a “concrete” outcome during President Barack Obama’s visit, starting in three days. The talks …

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