Eurasia

The French Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed the implementation of an agreement in Mali on the relocation of certain Tuareg populations in areas of north Mali in line with accords signed between the parties. After more than six months of intervention in Mali, French forces this week handed over security

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi from office by the army and the suspension of the constitution have reached ‘an extremely sensitive and alarming stage’.

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili regrets the current state of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Ivanishvili made this statement at a press conference on Wednesday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held an extraordinary meeting at his Istanbul office to assess the latest developments in

Nijaifi, Croatian Ambassador to Iraq discuss mutual relations. The Parliament Speaker, Osama al-Nijaifi, discussed with the Croatian

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has sent a letter to Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras in which he calls for speeding up the process of negotiations over the name dispute between the two countries. 

Adli Mansour was on Thursday sworn in as interim head of state at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, Egypt. This came a day after the military overthrew President Muhamed Morsi in a coup.

Georgia will continue its aspiration for NATO membership. A meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Council held in Tbilisi last week testified to this, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said. 

Rosemary DiCarlo, Acting Permanent Representative of the US who took over as chair of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the month, has stated that they would endeavour for finding a solution to Syria issue at the UNSC.

Out of 36 applications for the July 28 presidential elections, Mali’s Constitutional Court has approved 28 names, according to its president Amadi Tamba Camara.