March, 2013

• 12 March

  Turkish Foreign Ministry to meet Syriac leaders

  The Turkish Foreign Ministry has invited four Syriac Metropolitans to a meeting that will take place in Ankara on March 18, amid growing interest in the community. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is also expected to participate in the meeting, alongside Turabidin Metropolitan

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• 12 March

  Azerbaijani, Montenegrin presidents have expanded meeting

  Following their private talk, presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro were joined by their countries` delegations for an expanded meeting. They praised development of friendly relations between Azerbaijan and Montenegro. The sides stressed the

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• 12 March

  Bulgaria names Marin Raykov as caretaker PM

  Bulgaria’s president named on Tuesday career diplomat and former deputy foreign minister Marin Raykov as caretaker prime minister until early elections on May 12, following the resignation of the government last month. “My choice for prime minister is that of the current ambassador to France, Marin Raykov. He will also …

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• 12 March

  Turkish EU minister ready to ‘reset’ to solve Cyprus issue

  Turkish Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis on Tuesday stated that Nicos Anastasiades, newly elected leader of Greek Cypriot administration, had voted ‘yes’ to Kofi Annan’s Cyprus plan referendum and courageously showed his support for the resolution of the Cyprus issue and said, “We hope his new …

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• 11 March

  Government to Destroy Contaminated Milk

  After Dutch scientific analysis showed that 70 per cent of Serbian milk samples were contaminated with aflatoxin, the Belgrade government announced that contaminated milk will be destroyed.About 70 per cent of milk samples from Serbia contained aflatoxin M1 in levels higher than the EU limit, while the levels of contaminant …

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• 11 March

  Macedonia Govt to Get Baroque Look After Elections

  The seat of the Macedonian government will get its promised Baroque façade shortly after the March 24 local elections, officials have said.After several delays, the Macedonian government’s Procurements Bureau said it was about to choose from among four domestic construction firms that have offered to carry out the revamp. “We …

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• 11 March

  Debates over immigrants from Bulgaria, Romania exaggerated, says Martin Schulz: Deutschlandradio

  Berlin. European Parliament President Martin Schulz thinks that the debates over the inflow of poor immigrants from East Europe are exaggerated, Deutschlandradio reported. “There is no mass poverty migration from Romania or anywhere else,” Schulz remarked.

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• 11 March

  Greece ‘directly’ affected by Cyprus crisis: PM

  Economic problems in Cyprus “directly” affect struggling Greece and the traditional allies will coordinate policies ahead of a European eurozone summit later this week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Monday.”It is our common desire to strengthen coordination as our policies are characterised by shared views,” Samaras said after …

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• 11 March

  OSCE Helps Bosnia Speed Up War Crimes Cases

  The OSCE and Bosnia’s top judicial authority have launched a joint project aimed at accelerate work on war crimes prosecutions by supporting support legal institutions.The project, which started on Monday and will continue for 15 months, is intended to help tackle the huge backlog of outstanding prosecutions in Bosnia’s two …

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• 11 March

  Mafia Pushes to Destabilize Bulgaria amid Political Crisis – Analyst

  Bulgarian mafia and oligarchy structures are sabotaging attempts to form a caretaker cabinet, according to political analyst Ognyan Minchev. “The brutality with which those shady structures obstructing cabinet formation are an indicator of their great interests to prolong and manipulate instability,” said Minchev in an interview for the Trud daily …

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