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ADDIS ABEBA - Serbia wants to develop good relations and economic and political cooperation with African Union member states, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, said on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, will be paying a visit to Ethiopia on Monday and Tuesday, January 26 and 27, to take part in the 26th session of the Executive Council of the African Union.

Turkey held talks with Algeria on the crisis in Libya as part of efforts made by Algeria to convince rival parties in the restive Arab country to sit down at the negotiation table, according to an Algerian diplomatic source.

The number of foreign nationals applying for Bulgarian citizenship fell by a quarter last year, Vice President Margarita Popova said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic thanked departing Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelkader Mesdoua for making an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the Serbian-Algerian relations during more than six years of his term of office.

Egypt is open to importing gas from Israel, its oil minister said in state-owned media Jan. 14, another sign that it may lean on its neighbor to help tackle its energy troubles.

Egypt is going through its worst energy crisis in decades and is seeking fresh sources of natural gas, which powers most of its homes and factories, including Algeria, Russia, and Cyprus.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic received Algerian Ambassador Abdelkader Mesdoua in a farewell visit on Monday, and discussed further cooperation in the field of defense.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic talked with outgoing Algerian Ambassador Abdelkader Mesdoua on Wednesday.

Stefanovic and Mesdoua agreed that the friendship between Serbia and Algeria spans over many years, and that bilateral cooperation will be improved even further, the interior ministry stated in a release.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic presented on Monday Ambassador of Algeria Abdelkader Mesdoua with the Order of the Serbian Flag (Class 2) for his contribution to developing and strengthening peaceful cooperation and friendly relations between Serbia and Algeria.

Outgoing Ambassador Mesdoua thanked for the honor that was bestowed on him with this decoration.

All of them are complaining, but it is mostly Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and Israel that have had the strongest reactions against Turkey, on the grounds that Turkey “interferes too much with our domestic affairs.”