Eurasia Press & News

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that the US-Russia led Syria peace conference in Geneva, which is planned for June but likely to be pushed back to July, is bound to fail if the Syrian opposition is excluded from the talks.

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili received NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai on Monday. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s residence.

Newly-appointed Croatian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Starčevic (residence in Athens) presented his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan.

Macedonia should finally decide to leave behind the Balkan past and instead work constructively for its future. This is what Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos has said.

Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak stated in Belgrade on Tuesday that Slovakia supports the start of pre-accession talks between Serbia and the EU. Lajčak informed his Serbian counterpart

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul urged calm on Monday after days of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters and promised them their message had been “received”.

Montenegro is ready to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan in all fields and in particular culture and education, Minister of Culture of Montenegro Branislav Micunovic said at a session of the Second World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue which took place on Thursday in Baku.

Greece blocks Macedonia’s NATO membership over the name issue but we will be always next to it and will not allow change of the name. This is what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

An extraordinary delegation of the European Parliament is arriving in Tbilisi on June 3 with a two-day visit. The delegation includes MPs Libor Rouček, (Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats), Krzysztof Lisek

EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton condemned police violence in Turkey as anti-government protests in dozens of cities there entered a fourth day Monday. A statement issued by her office Sunday said she had “expressed deep concern at the violence that occurred in Istanbul and