The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has refused wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s request to issue “a stay of proceedings” in his case.

On April 8, Georgian Parliament unanimously approved Irakli Kavtaradze as an ambassador of Georgia to Azerbaijan. He served as a Secretary on Foreign Relations of the ruling United National Movement Party

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Paris on Wednesday that he hopes French President Nicolas Sarkozy will change his stance on EU membership for Turkey.