Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- OPEC oil ministers arrived in Vienna ahead of an emergency meeting in response to the global economic crisis.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stressed that Iraq’s security must not be undermined to ensure protection for the occupying forces.

(WASHINGTON) — The United States is taking another step toward getting Albania and Croatia — both isolated behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War — folded into the NATO alliance.

As a member of the European Union and NATO, Bulgaria supports Albania’s European and Euro-Atlantic prospect, both politically as well as from its experience in integration processes, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said Thursday.

Russia has not got into the difficult situation brought by global financial crisis and may emerge from it a stronger economy, President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan said on Thursday that Armenia worked for the normalization of its relations with Turkey and he was optimistic about it.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Thursday new clashes may break out in the Caucasus region if the European Union (EU) observers fail to function as security guarantors.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic signed here on Thursday, the Charter of Regional Cooperation in South-Eastern Europe, in the present of his Romanian and Moldovan counterparts.

Visiting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Thursday expressed hope that some progress could be achieved in the peace track between Syria and Israel as it is basic in the overall Middle East peace process.

A  Croatian publisher and his colleague were killed in a car bomb Thursday evening in the center of the capital Zagreb, electronic media reported.