August 30, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić called on Priština on Thursday to respect the agreements reached so far and asked the UN to stay in Kosovo and Metohija. The UN is an “honest broker and a guarantor that the other side will not undermine the
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday intelligence gathered by Ankara left no doubt that the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for a poison gas attack near Damascus last week.
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States is still seeking an international coalition for possible military action against the Syrian regime, despite the British Parliament’s vote against participating. Hagel outlined the U.S. position at a news conference in Manila on August 30.
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Deputy Prime Minister and Georgian Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Armenia Today reported with the reference to the Armenian
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan will pay a working visit to Moscow. President of Russia Vladimir Putin will meet with Armenian President
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Egyptian police captured senior Muslim Brotherhood official Mohamed El-Beltagi yesterday, security sources said, as they pressed on with a crackdown that has put most of the Islamist group’s top leaders behind bars.
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
French President Francois Hollande said a military strike on Syria could come by Wednesday and that Britain’s surprise rejection of armed intervention would not affect his government’s stand.
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
German FM Guido Westerwelle has been quoted as saying that his country was “neither asked to, nor is considering” taking part in a possible attack on Syria. “We are in favor of the UN Security Council finding
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Turkey
The next meeting of Azerbaijan-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council will be held in the second half of November, Turkey’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismail Alper Coskun said.
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August 30, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Britain will not join any military action against Syria after a stunning parliamentary defeat on Thursday of a government motion on the issue, dealing a setback to US-led efforts to punish Damascus over the use of chemical weapons against civilians.
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