Eurasia Press & News

Syria has received the first shipment of Russian missiles that are part of a more sophisticated air defence system, President Bashar Assad said on Thursday. Bashar Assad’s comment on the arrival of the long-range S-300 air defence missiles

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday addressed the Syrian opposition coalition which has been holding week-long talks in Istanbul. Turkish diplomatic sources said Davutoglu made a speech at the opposition meeting in line

Macedonian plans to host a summit of regional presidents end in fiasco after most of the guests pull out for a variety of reasons – forcing Macedonia’s president to call off the meeting. Gjorge Ivanov said there was no point in holding the summit, or the complementary

MEPs and MPs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine hope to achieve a breakthrough in their relations at this November’s Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, but not at the expense of democracy, rule of law and peace. At the Third Euronest Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels on 28-29 May, they …

Syria’s opposition National Coalition Wednesday said it welcomed the US-Russian plan to hold a Syria peace conference in Geneva. In a statement released in Istanbul after days

Talks on the implementation of the Belgrade-Priština agreement and electric power and telecommunications started in Brussels at 11:00 CET. Belgrade’s implementation team is led by

The UN secretary-general has asked the Hague Tribunal to examine the possibility of Serbian war crimes convicts serving their sentences in their home country. Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic asked the UN

Turkish President Abdullah Gül welcomed yesterday the EU decision to lift the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition. “It’s obvious that nobody can suppress people through arms and the army. In this respect, we

Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will attend the plenary session of the European Parliament (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels on Wednesday.

President Bujar Nishani on Tuesday said he would not participate in the summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process, SEECP, after his Kosovo counterpart was not invited. Nishani said he would not be going to Macedonia out of “disappointment with the destructive conditionality that