May 20, 2013 Balkans News, Serbia
Westerwelle said that if tangible results are achieved in the implementation of the Belgrade-Pristina deal, he could send a positive signal to his country’s parliament as it deliberates over whether to recommend granting a start date for EU accession talks with Serbia. “Serbia can do good for Europe, and Europe …
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May 20, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, South East Asia
Pakistanis headed to polls in Karachi on Sunday, right after the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a political leader who had accused rivals of vote stealing. Hussain was the senior vice president of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
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May 20, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras on Saturday in Baku. They said relations between Azerbaijan and Greece were developing successfully in
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May 20, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
After winning adulation across Mali for a five-month military offensive that crushed Al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels.
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May 20, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign. “To resign would be to flee,” he said on Saturday when asked if
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May 20, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
The EU Delegation to Georgia issued a statement on the May 17 events in Tbilisi. “The heads of diplomatic missions of EU member states and the EU Delegation in Georgia
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May 20, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Brussels’ foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has congratulated Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on the country’s EU accession, which is set for July 1. “Your EU accession is good not only for you but will be extremely good for EU member countries,” she said
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May 20, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey will start this week negotiations for an agreement regarding the freight traffic between the two countries, said Bulgarian Minister of Transport Kristian Krastev Sunday. Krastev will meet Turkish counterpart Binali
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May 20, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić on Monday in Belgrade met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and the two held a news conference afterwards. The German foreign said that he could not prejudge the decision
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May 18, 2013 Eurasia, Special Analysis
The recent election of Pope Francis I (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Argentine of Italian origin), who comes from the Jesuit order, to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the State of Vatican, as well as the circumstances that triggered the unusual decision of his predecessor Benedict XVI …
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