May, 2013

• 21 May

  Dacic meets Thaci in Brussels again

  Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaci, who head the governments in Belgrade and Priština, are once again meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. They are discussing the concrete steps to implement the Brussels agreement, which they initialed on April 19.

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• 20 May

  German Foreign Minister Encourages Serbia’s EU Progress

  Westerwelle said that if tangible results are achieved in the implementation of the Belgrade-Pristina deal, he could send a positive signal to his country’s parliament as it deliberates over whether to recommend granting a start date for EU accession talks with Serbia. “Serbia can do good for Europe, and Europe …

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• 20 May

  Pakistanis headed to polls one day after political leader’s death

  Pakistanis headed to polls in Karachi on Sunday, right after the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a political leader who had accused rivals of vote stealing. Hussain was the senior vice president of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

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• 20 May

  Greek PM met Azerbaijan President

  President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras on Saturday in Baku. They said relations between Azerbaijan and Greece were developing successfully in

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• 20 May

  France is pressing for political solution in Mali

  After winning adulation across Mali for a five-month military offensive that crushed Al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels.

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• 20 May

  Syrian President welcomes US-Russian peace initiative

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign. “To resign would be to flee,” he said on Saturday when asked if

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• 20 May

  EU urges Georgia to follow European values

  The EU Delegation to Georgia issued a statement on the May 17 events in Tbilisi. “The heads of diplomatic missions of EU member states and the EU Delegation in Georgia

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• 20 May

  Catherine Ashton congratulates Croatia on EU integration

  Brussels’ foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has congratulated Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on the country’s EU accession, which is set for July 1. “Your EU accession is good not only for you but will be extremely good for EU member countries,” she said

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• 20 May

  Bulgaria and Turkey to discuss border crossing problems

  The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey will start this week negotiations for an agreement regarding the freight traffic between the two countries, said Bulgarian Minister of Transport Kristian Krastev Sunday. Krastev will meet Turkish counterpart Binali

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• 20 May

  German FM meets Serbian PM

  Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić on Monday in Belgrade met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and the two held a news conference afterwards. The German foreign said that he could not prejudge the decision

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