France on Thursday praised as “a success” the outcome of the international donor conference for Mali held Wednesday in Brussels where participants pledged Euros 3.2 billion (USD 4.1 billion) for the reconstruction and development needs of that country.

Speaking after a meeting with Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov emphasized the importance of Kosovo for the EU

The conflict in Georgia has always been on the agenda of the Council of Europe (CE) ministerial meeting, the organisation’s Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said at a meeting with Georgian Foreign Minister Maia