July, 2013

• 16 July

  EC asks Serbia to make team for EU negotiations

  The European Commission has called on Serbia to choose a chief negotiator and a team for the membership negotiations with the European Union immediately.

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• 16 July

  Slovenian President will visit Skopje

  Slovenian President Borut Pahor is to pay a two-day visit to Macedonia. He is expected to meet with his Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov. The delegations of the two countries are to hold a meeting as well.

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• 16 July

  General strike in Greece after reforms

  Greece on Tuesday braced for a fourth general strike of the year against fresh austerity measures the government is imposing in order to keep receiving EU-IMF loans. Unions have called for a one-day national mobilisation against a new bill that

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• 16 July

  Russia stages biggest military exercise since collapse of Soviet Union

  Russian President Vladimir Putin was on Sakhalin where he observed a part of the large-scale military exercise staged by the Russian military. It involves 160,000 troops and 5,000 tanks, and represents the

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• 15 July

  Georgia and Cyprus discuss bilateral relations

  The political consultations were held between the Georgian and Cypriot Foreign Ministries in Batumi on Monday.

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• 15 July

  UN Secretary General says Mali upcoming election must be respected

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for the results of Mali’s upcoming election to be respected even if the vote is “imperfect”, amid scepticism about the country’s ability to stage the poll.

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• 15 July

  EC says oral report on Bulgaria will not contain political assessments

  Mark Gray, a spokesman for the European Commission, has stated that the upcoming oral Cooperation and Verification Mechanism report on Bulgaria will be factual and will not contain political assessments.

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• 15 July

  Stefan Fule to visit Serbia

  EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will arrive on a two-day visit to Belgrade Wednesday. He will meet with Serbia’s senior officials to discuss Serbia’s

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• 15 July

  Egypt’s PM meets US Deputy Secretary, discussed latest deveopments

  Egyptian Prime Minister-designate Hazem el-Beblawi met Monday with visiting US Deputy Secretary Bill Burns and US Ambassador Anne Patterson. They discussed the latest developments in Egypt and the implementation

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• 15 July

  Georgian President visited Moldova, held meetings on political processes

  Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili held the bilateral meetings within his working visit to Moldova. Saakashvili has already met with Moldovan president Nicolae Timofti and Prime Minister Yuri Lanke. The current political

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