April 5, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius visited Mali on Friday where he revealed plans to start withdrawing French troop before elections in July. Paris plans to reduce its soldiers to 2,000 by
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April 5, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
Turkey is not yet ready to allow an embassy to be opened in Ankara by the Syrian opposition coalition, which recently opened an embassy in Qatar. The Syrian opposition opened its first embassy in Qatar a day
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April 5, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish President Abdullah Gül praised the governments of Baltic nations Latvia and Lithuania on Thursday for their support of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, saying that they had publicly declared
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April 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbia will always insist on the safety of its people in Kosovo above everything else, regardless of whether Belgrade and Priština resume their talks. This is according to Serbian government’s Office for
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April 5, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania met with his Hungarian counterpart Csaba Hende during an official visit to Budapest.
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April 5, 2013 Albania, Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
OSCE announced that it will send hundreds of monitors to observe June’s national elections in Albania. An OSCE report says
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April 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Macedonia
The dialog between Macedonia and the European Union will resume on Tuesday when European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule is to visit Skopje. Commissioner Fule will be accompanied by
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April 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
U.S. Ambassador Michael Kirby said on Friday that the U.S. supported the Belgrade-Priština dialogue and voiced confidence that an agreement could be reached. “The Serbian government has been putting great efforts in an
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April 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Six-member PACE delegation, led by Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), will arrive in Bulgaria on a two-day mission to assess the electoral framework and campaign prior to the early parliamentary elections scheduled for 12 May.
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April 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has confirmed his participation in a public debate on the operation of the international criminal tribunals. The debate is due to take place in the UN General Assembly on April 10.
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