November 7, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic called on Serbs on Thursday to vote in the repeated local elections in Kosovo at three polling stations in Kosovska Mitrovica.
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November 7, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has appointed Stanimir Vukičević as the new ambassador in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Zorica Tomić was dismissed from the
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November 7, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
French President François Hollande’s long-awaited visit to Turkey will take place on Jan. 27-28. Hollande, whose election in 2012 was welcomed by Ankara due to his softer tone on the Turkish bid to join the European Union, has long been expected to visit Turkey. The decision
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November 7, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Pakistan, South East Asia
A Pakistan court Wednesday ordered the release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf from house arrest, two days after he was granted bail in connection with the attack on Islamabad’s Red Mosque. The former military ruler has already got bail in two other cases — the 2007 assassination of former prime minister …
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November 7, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is awaiting a faster EU accession process. Erdogan’s comment came after Turkey began on Tuesday its 22nd round of EU accession negotiations called Chapter
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November 7, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Delegates of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany started another round of nuclear talks with Iran on Thursday. The P5+1 group (Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany) was represented by EU High Representative for
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November 6, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday that the tripartite meeting of the UN, Russia and the United States wasn’t able to set a date for the long delayed Syria peace talks, known as Geneva II.
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November 6, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
EU’s Catherine Ashton is meeting on Wednesday in Brussels with prime ministers Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaci to resolve the fate of the elections in Kosovo.
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November 6, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Despite attacks on polling stations in northern Kosovo, the US praised late Tuesday the country on its “historic” local elections, and called for a smooth transition into the next round of voting. “We applaud the commitment of both the Governments of Kosovo and Serbia to encourage voter participation and enable …
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November 6, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey will keep implementing reforms oriented towards eventual EU accession, but its desire to join the union might not last for too long, stated Turkish President Abullah Gul. Tuesday Gul was on an official visit to Norway, where he met Norwegian King Harald V.
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