December, 2013

• 19 December

  Serbia Accession Talks set for January

  The EU has set January 21 as the starting date for membership talks with Serbia.

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• 19 December

  Bulgaria supports Western Balkans and Turkey’s EU accession

  Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has reiterated his country’s support for the EU integration efforts of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey.

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• 19 December

  Azerbaijan, France discuss regional security issues

  Azerbaijan and France held consultations on bilateral military cooperation in Baku on December 17.

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• 17 December

  Ashton to submit report on Serbia

  EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will today officially present to the Council of Ministers her report on Serbia’s implementation of the Brussels agreement.

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• 17 December

  Moldovan president visits Turkey for first time since 1999

  Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti arrived in Ankara on Tuesday to sign a number of agreements with his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül.

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• 17 December

  US Defense Secretary, Russian defense minister discuss missile defense

  US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu conducted Monday their inaugural video teleconference, during which they discussed a number of issues including missile defense, Syria, cyber

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• 17 December

  Conference on peace in Syria to be held in Switzerland in January

  The United Nations plans to precede its internationally brokered peace talks between Syria’s warring sides next month with a one-day meeting of foreign ministers in the Swiss city of Montreux.

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• 17 December

  Turkish PM says EU deal reflects a new start in relations

  Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the deal with the EU a “milestone” and a new era in Tureky-EU relations. “We are not coming to become a burden, but to help with it. The visa requirements should have been removed long ago. The fact that they haven’t been removed yet has only harmed …

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• 17 December

  Russia confirms Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad

  Russia confirmed Monday that it has deployed Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, on border with Poland.

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• 17 December

  Yanukovich, Putin meet in Moscow

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine should make concerted efforts to boost relations. During a meeting of the inter-government commission with his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovich, Putin said

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