September 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selaković and his Bosnian counterpart Barisa Čolak on Thursday in Belgrade signed an agreement on extradition. It concerns the two countries’ citizens charged with and convicted for criminal acts of organized crime, corruption, money laundry and other grave crimes.
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
Turkey’s ambassador is due to return to Egypt on Wednesday after he was recalled last month over the bloody crackdown on supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president, a foreign ministry diplomat said.
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar Al-Assad regime was “clearly documented” and there must be “a sanction” to prevent further such violations and “crimes
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
China reiterated on Wednesday that only political solution can serve to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria. “We are seriously concerned about possible unilateral military actions taken by relevant countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry
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September 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
“There is nothing dramatic – there is enhanced migration flow, there are risks for realisation of such a wave of immigrants,” said Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, speaking at parliament during the brief parliamentary control sitting held on the first day of the work of the Bulgarian National Assembly after …
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned America and its allies against taking one-sided action in Syria. He said any military strikes without UN approval would be “an aggression”. US President Barack Obama has called for punitive action in
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Obama administration’s longtime sceptics of a Syria strike have reversed their position, defense secretary Chuck Hagel testified to the Senate on Tuesday. Hagel, a former senator and a Vietnam combat veteran, put aside his previous hesitations about another entanglement in the Middle East and told the Senate foreign relations …
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September 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Thousands of supporters of overthrown Islamist president Mohamed Morsi took to the streets in towns and cities across Egypt on Tuesday evening to denounce Egypt’s new military-backed rulers – their second show of mass
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September 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday that no agreement had yet been reached on the strategic Prevlaka peninsula, which both countries have claimed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. After a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart Filip Vujanovic, Josipovic said that the two governments were still actively trying to resolve the …
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September 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina will on Thursday sign an agreement on mutual extradition of citizens charged and convicted for criminal acts of organized crime. The agreement will include corruption and money laundering charges, the
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