March 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
France on Monday condemned a Syrian air raid into Lebanon, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had seriously violated the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon. “The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in
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March 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Turkey
The next trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov, Ahmet Davutoglu and Maya Panjikidze will be held in Batumi on March 28, Mammadyarov said at a briefing on Tuesday.
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March 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey’s prime minister says he hopes this week’s Kurdish spring festival will herald the start of a peaceful resolution of the nearly 30-year-old conflict with Kurdish rebels. Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Tuesday, ahead of Thursday’s spring festivities
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March 19, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia – Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The meeting will be held in New York in the frames of the debates on Kosovo during the UN Security Council meeting. The UN Security Council will debate …
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March 19, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that “the information arriving in Washington did not correspond to the situation in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue”. The progress made in the dialogue was not being assessed correctly, he said after his meeting in Rome late on Monday with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.
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March 19, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Enlargement Commissioner Fuele told Kosovo leaders to up the fight against corruption in order to boost its chances of opening a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Brussels. “Kosovo has to show even more courage. More efforts
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March 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Romania, Romania News
Mircea Dusa, Romania’s defence minister said on Tuesday that United States plans to deploy anti-missile interceptors in Romania will continue and interceptors will be deployed in 2015. “I have very serious assurances from the American side that the investment in Romania will continue,” Dusa said.
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March 19, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
European Union officials told the Serbian government that reform of the justice system was crucial if Belgrade is to reach the rule-of-law standards required for membership. Speaking to Serbian lawmakers who were visiting Brussels on Tuesday in the hope of boosting the country’s
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March 18, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Genc Mucaj, Albania’s new ambassador to Turkey, presented his credentials to President Abdullah Gul on Monday afternoon. The press was invited to attend the ambassador’s presentation of his credentials to the president.
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March 18, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Kosovo said that a peace treaty would facilitate the reconciliation but would also ensure that Serbia pays compensation for the late 1990s war, said Hajredin Kuci, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister and justice minister.
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