June 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Croatia’s newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia, Ivan Starčević, whose diplomatic residence is in Athens.
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June 5, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
EU leaders could order the European Commission to create a platform for Serbia’s accession at the end of June. A date for the formal launch of negotiations should be determined in October.
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June 5, 2013 Eurasia, Special Analysis
The Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013 abruptly brought to attention the situation in the North Caucasus where, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia faces the same threat of radical Islam as the West does elsewhere. Most observers, who label the North Caucasus “Russia’s southern underbelly”, agree that the …
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June 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on Tuesday in Algeria along with his accompanying delegation for a two-day visit. Upon arrival, Erdogan was received by his Algerian counterpart Abdulmalek Sellal.
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June 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
“When will Macedonia and Serbia get a date to launch the EU accession talks if not now?” This is what Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said during the joint sitting of the Macedonian and Serbian governments held in Belgrade yesterday.
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June 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey’s government apologised on Tuesday to protesters hurt in clashes with police during days of demonstrations and called for an immediate end to the protests. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc moved to calm
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June 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
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.
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June 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
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.
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June 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Newly-appointed Croatian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Starčevic (residence in Athens) presented his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan.
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June 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Macedonia
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.
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