July, 2013

• 4 July

  Nikola Gruevski sends letter to Greek PM

  Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has sent a letter to Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras in which he calls for speeding up the process of negotiations over the name dispute between the two countries. 

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• 4 July

  Egypt has interim President one day after Morsi’s arrest

  Adli Mansour was on Thursday sworn in as interim head of state at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, Egypt. This came a day after the military overthrew President Muhamed Morsi in a coup.

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• 3 July

  Georgia to continue NATO membership aspiration

  Georgia will continue its aspiration for NATO membership. A meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Council held in Tbilisi last week testified to this, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said. 

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• 3 July

  UNSC pledges to find solution for Syrian conflict

  Rosemary DiCarlo, Acting Permanent Representative of the US who took over as chair of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the month, has stated that they would endeavour for finding a solution to Syria issue at the UNSC.

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• 3 July

  28 candidates to compete in Mali presidential elections

  Out of 36 applications for the July 28 presidential elections, Mali’s Constitutional Court has approved 28 names, according to its president Amadi Tamba Camara.

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• 3 July

  Turkey asks Egypt to respect democratic rules

  Ankara has called on Egyptian authorities to respect the rule of law and the people’s will by sticking to democratic norms, in an apparent reference to the army’s possible intervention into the country’s crisis-torn political scene.

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• 3 July

  Protesters rally in Bulgaria for the 20th Day

  For a sixth morning in a row, Bulgarians will stage a coffee-drinking anti-government protest in front of the Parliament building in downtown Sofia. The demonstration on Wednesday morning is expected to be the largest rally held in front of Parliament so far.

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• 3 July

  Serbia and Slovenia discuss improvement of bilateral cooperation

  Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić talked with a delegation of the Slovenian parliament led by Parliament Speaker Janko Veber in Belgrade.

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• 3 July

  Serbia expects EU to defend the agreed position with Pristina

  Rasim Ljajić says Priština “first accepted the proposed solution for telecommunications but now wants to change what has been agreed.” The Serbian minister of trade and telecommunications added on Wednesday that Belgrade “expects the EU to defend the agreed position.”

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• 2 July

  Syria conference likely after September

  A proposed peace conference on Syria will likely not happen until at least September, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, July 2, after meeting here with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kerry spoke privately with Lavrov for nearly

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