April 19, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The visit is Prince Faisal bin Farhan’s first since the start of the civil war and follows the Syrian foreign minister’s trip to Saudi Arabia last week. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan landed in Syria on Tuesday, the first such visit since the start of the civil war …
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April 19, 2023 Africa, Eurasia
Following an attack on the EU ambassador in Khartoum and a US diplomatic convoy, the United States called on the parties to the current conflict to secure the safety of diplomatic personnel. Fear for the safety of diplomatic personnel in Sudan’s capital Khartoum grew after a US diplomatic convoy came …
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April 19, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Reza and Yasmine Pahlavi arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday in a visit that could further fuel tension between Iran and Israel Reza Pahlavi, the son of late Iranian Shah, arrived in Israel on Monday on a trip that showed Israeli embrace of the Iranian figure who is seeking a …
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April 19, 2023 Africa, Eurasia, Middle Orient
Mekdad’s three-day visit to Tunis marks the first by a Syrian official since the North African country cut ties with the Syrian regime in February 2012 over its brutal crackdown against peaceful protests. Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad headed to Tunisia on Monday for a three-day visit in the latest …
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April 19, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
At a moment of escalating war of words, Iran’s president said Israel will face destruction should it strike his country, which the Jewish state has long considered as an existential threat. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi threatened Israel with annihilation in an address marking the Islamic Republic’s Army Day in Tehran …
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April 19, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The planned visit by a Hamas delegation to Riyadh reflects Saudi Arabia’s new diplomatic priorities, which do not include normalization with Israel. Meeting in Jerusalem with US Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel wants normalization and peace with Saudi Arabia. “We view [normalization] as …
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April 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
In the elections for mayors and councilors in majority-Serb municipalities in the North of Kosovo, only two candidates for mayors and one electoral list from the Serbian community ran. Apart from the Civic Initiative “Mitrovica”, which includes one party of the Bosniak minority, there are other Albanian parties, and their …
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April 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
The US expects Serbia and Kosovo to fulfill everything agreed in the previous negotiations, including the formation of the Community of Municipalities with a Serbian majority, the State Department told the Voice of America this evening in response to a question about the implementation of what was agreed in Ohrid. …
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April 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
Even today, ten years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, he insists that this and other agreements must be fulfilled and the Association of Serbian Municipalities be formed, the attitude and memory of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, regarding that first agreement on the principles of normalization of …
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April 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
Now it can be seen that, after ten years, the Brussels process has returned to the beginning in a political sense. Once again, the Serbs are outside the institutions and are boycotting the elections, and they were returned to that again in 2013. The government in Belgrade got ten years, …
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