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The EU said it hoped for a "positive outcome" in talks in Brussels on March 2 between the Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers aimed at resolving a gas supply dispute threatening deliveries to Europe.

Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom threatened last week to cut deliveries to Ukraine and divert supplies instead to eastern parts of the country controlled by pro-Kremlin rebels.

Serbia "not sitting on two chairs" - FM

BELGRADE -- Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Belgrade was "not sitting on two chairs" when it comes to its relations with Russia and the EU.

Belgrade "has its own a stance which was valued," he told a regular monthly news conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic announced on Sunday that he would visit the NATO seat in Brussels on March 18 together with Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic concerning the agreement on the individual action plan of partnership between the country and the NATO.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is an exceptional place where heat can be produced using ecologically advanced heat pumps which would provide heating for Belgrade citizens, officials said during a conference on heating and cooling held in Brussels.

BELGRADE - The goal of the Serbian government is to accelerate the realisation of all launched projects and the work on closing agreements concerning new infrastructure projects, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said in the talks with Director of the Directorate-General for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Ne

The Romanian and Georgian Foreign Ministers, Bogdan Aurescu and Tamar Beruchashvili, respectively, have signed, on Friday, at the Government House, in the presence of the two countries' Prime Ministers, Victor Ponta and Irakli Garibashvili, a program of collaboration between Romania and Georgia in the realms of culture, education and science, mass-media, youth and sports.

Bulgaria's operations with EU funds have improved substantially over the past few years, according to President Rosen Plevneliev.

Speaking Friday at a conference in Brussels organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies, Bulgaria's head of state said that Bulgaria was not on the list of EU countries with the highest rates of EU funds fraud of the European Court of Auditors.

Georgian Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili expressed concern about Russia's "creeping annexation" of the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Beruchashvili was particularly concerned about the agreements Russia has signed with the two separatist regions, which aim at deepening integration, The Moscow Times reports.

According to Bloomberg, a 50-minute phone conversation between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly elected Greek PM Alexis Tsipras — their first substantive exchange since the latter’s election on Jan. 25 — reportedly brought the 40-year-old leftist leader “back to reality”.

WASHINGTON - The US backs the policy of the Serbian government and the reforms it is implementing, and wants good relations with Serbia, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic, has said after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry.