October, 2013

• 2 October

  Serbian President, Russian Ambassador discuss South Stream Project

  Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić says Serbia’s course is clear as it wants to have close cooperation with Russia that does not hinder the country’s EU integration process. During Wednesday’s meeting between the Serbian president and Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin it was concluded that all preparations for the beginning of works

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• 2 October

  Chinese Embassy in Syria hit by mortar shell, 1 injured

  A mortar shell hit the compound of the Chinese Embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus, damaging the building and injuring a Syrian employee. It was the first time that the Chinese Embassy was hit since the Syrian conflict broke out 2-and-a-half years ago.

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• 2 October

  Tunisian Ambassador returns to Cairo

  Diplomatic sources have said that Tunisian Ambassador Mahmoud Khmer returned to Cairo on Tuesday evening after a two-month vacation.

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• 2 October

  French President reiterates support for Mali

  French President Francois Hollande gave his full backing to Mali leader Ibrahim Boubakar Keita, who left Paris abruptly Tuesday to tackle growing violence with Tuareg tribes in the north of the country. Keita had been expected to stay here until Thursday and meet parliamentary and other government officials but the …

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• 2 October

  Belgrade could reconsider its call to Kosovo Serbs to vote in the upcoming elections

  Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday that Belgrade “could be forced to reconsider” its call to the Kosovo Serbs to vote in the upcoming elections in the province. This is because “Priština is refusing to accept voter applications submitted by over 30,000 internally displaced persons,” the chairman

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• 2 October

  Turkish president warns of emergence of radical Islamists in Syria

  Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday warned of an emergence of radical Islamists in Syria in the neighbor’s long-running armed conflict. “Civil war is the most merciless of wars. As these conflicts drag out, radicalism and extremism take root to establish their own infrastructure and threaten not only the

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• 2 October

  UN disarmament experts launch mission in Syria

  International disarmament experts arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital to begin the daunting task of cataloguing the country’s arsenal of chemical weapons ahead of its destruction. Nineteen inspectors from The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled by road from Lebanon a day after UN experts left Damascus after probing alleged gas …

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• 2 October

  U.N. condemns torture in Libyan detention centres

  Torture is widespread in Libyan detention centres run by brigades which emerged during the 2011 revolution, a UN report said Tuesday, urging Tripoli to bring all facilities under full state control. “The report indicates that torture is widespread and most

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• 2 October

  Egyptian army chief urges quick political transition to restore stability

  Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Tuesday for a quick political transition to restore stability after he directed the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and installed an interim government.

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• 1 October

  Ban discusses Syria with El-Arabi

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met here late Monday with Nabil El-Arabi, Secretary General of the Arab League, discussing with him issues pertaining to the Syrian crisis. Ban briefed his counterpart on recent developments at the United Nations relating to Syria and expressed strong hopes that the successful

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