January 17, 2014 Balkans, Special Analysis
After Croatia’s accession to the European Union in July 2013 and the “Enlargement Report” for 2014 of the European Commission – which recommended granting the EU candidate status to Albania and the Western Balkans’ countries including, for the fifth time in a row, the opening of accession negotiations with the …
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart in Paris next week. The ministers, in presence of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs (ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russia, Jacques Faure of
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January 17, 2014 Albania, Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is on an official visit to Albania where he is to meet with Lulzim Basha, mayor of the capital city Tirana.
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday in a call the White House described as “part of their ongoing consultations on shared security challenges and advancing the special
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January 17, 2014 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
The European Parliament (EP) passed on Thursday a resolution on Kosovo welcoming the European Council decision to open SAA negotiations.
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News
The US expressed its concerns Thursday on a bill passed by the Ukrainian parliament – or Verkhovna Rada, as it is also known – that curtails freedoms of speech, assembly and association in the Eastern European nation which has
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Syrian government announced Thursday that it will attend the UN-sponsored Geneva conference for Syria peace planned next week, but voiced rejection to the declared agenda of the conference.
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
The civil war in Syria continues to pose a threat to Turkey, and the German government will continue to give support to the Turkish air force as part of the NATO mission, Germany’s Foreign Minister
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Friday he had handed Russia plans for a ceasefire in Syria’s biggest city, Aleppo, and was ready to exchange lists with rebel forces on a possible prisoner swap.
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January 17, 2014 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged the Syrian opposition to attend a key peace conference which aims at bringing an end to the three-year conflict in Syria.
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