Eurasia Press & News

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Egypt’s president has invited the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet next week in Egypt in the first direct talks since Abbas dissolved a coalition government with Islamist Hamas, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Thursday.

Preşedintele Traian Băsescu şi premierul Călin Popescu Tăriceanu participă la Consiliul European de Vară de la Bruxelles.

În jur de 200.000 de euro stau în calea destrămării Alianţei PNL-PD. Secretarii generali ai celor două partide, Dan Motreanu şi Vasile Blaga, au încercat, ieri, la Parlament, să lichideze conturile, astfel încât ruptura dintre liberali şi democraţi să devină oficială.

Preşedintele PC, Dan Voiculescu, a declarat la Târgu-Mureş că partidul său va iniţia un proiect de lege prin care etnicii maghiari care nu cunosc limba română să rămână fără cetăţenie.

PSD a depus, miercuri, moţiunea simplă pe sănătate. Social-democraţii au mai depus marţi, la Camera Deputaţilor, o altă moţiune simplă pe tema agriculturii.

PODGORICA, Montenegro — Foreign Minister Milan Rocen said on Tuesday (June 19th) that the government is working to meet EU criteria, and views these as more important than setting deadlines for accession.

BUCHAREST, Romania — President Traian Basescu issued a decree Tuesday (June 19th) appointing Public Works Minister Laszlo Borbely as acting minister of IT and communications.

LUXEMBOURG — EU security chief Javier Solana met with Albanian Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha on Tuesday (June 19th) and urged the various Albanian political parties to reach consensus on a candidate to succeed outgoing President Alfred Moisiu.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) — The chief international official in BiH denounced on Tuesday (June d19th) a call by the Muslim and Croat members of the tripartite presidency to abolish the Bosnian Serb entity.