January, 2014

• 24 January

  Japanese PM to visit India

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be on a three-day official visit to India starting January 25th during which Japan and India would review all aspects of their wide-ranging bilateral relationship, Indian Foreign Ministry

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• 24 January

  Serbia, Bulgaria pledge to boost partnership

  Initiation of Serbia’s EU accession talks opens new possibilities for comprehensive deepening of the partnership between Serbia and Bulgaria.

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• 24 January

  France condemns use of violence in Ukraine

  France will summon Ukrainian ambassador in Paris over the recent violence in Kiev. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has given instruction to the foreign ministry to summon the Ukrainian

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• 24 January

  Syrian gov’t envoys threatens to leave talks

  Syrian government envoys threatened on Friday to leave a peace conference on ending the conflict should efforts to secure a face-to-face meeting with opposition representatives fail.

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• 23 January

  Indian FM, Kerry discuss diplomatic situation

  The United States and India could soon reschedule a visit by the U.S. energy secretary that was cancelled because of a diplomatic row, New Delhi said after foreign minister Salman Khurshid met his counterpart U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday.

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• 23 January

  Egypt President says police state is over

  Egypt’s military-backed interim president said Thursday that the country’s uprisings have put an end to the police state and to abuses, part of a campaign to rebrand the security forces amid a heavy handed crackdown on Islamists and other critics of the government.

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• 23 January

  French President to visit Turkey to discuss bilateral relations

  French President François Hollande is preparing to pay a two-day official visit to Turkey on Jan. 27-28 upon the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül, to add new momentum to the relations between the two

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• 23 January

  Ban Ki-moon, Chinese FM discuss Syrian crisis

  The UN said on Thursday that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Montreux, Switzerland to discuss the Syrian conflict.

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• 23 January

  Turkish EU Minister says membership is an indispensable goal

  While describing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent visit to Brussels as “extremely successful,” the EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said EU membership is an “indispensable goal” for Turkey, despite certain flaws and mutual resentments.

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• 23 January

  Bulgaria ready to assist Serbia on EU integration

  Bulgaria is ready to offer technical and expert assistance to Serbia in its path towards EU integration, revealed the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin. On Thursday, he met with his Serbian counterpart Ivan Mrkic, who is on an official visit to Sofia.

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