Libya

Katmerciler Ekipman announced that it has won another bid to supply Turkey’s police force with 50 riot control vehicles equipped with water cannons, known as TOMAs, in a written statement issued to the Public Disclosure Platform on Nov. 24.

The police will pay 11.7 million euros to the company for the TOMAs, said the statement.

State Secretary for European Affairs, George Ciamba will be attending in Brussels on Monday a meeting of the European Union's General Affairs Council (GAC), the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) reports in a release to AGERPRES.

Italian authorities said Nov. 15 that more than 900 people had been rescued at sea in 24 hours, in a blow to hopes that the approach of winter would stem the flow of migrants attempting perilous crossings of the Mediterranean.
      

Libya on Nov. 14 released nine Turks who had been captured by the army and handed them over to representatives from Ankara, a government statement said.

A businessman who tried to hire the Noor One tanker, which was seized in June after more than a ton of heroin was found on board, is due to appear before investigating magistrate Maria Skarpou on Tuesday, Kathimerini has learned.

Twin car bombs struck near the shuttered Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassy buildings in the militia-controlled Libyan capital on Nov. 13, an AFP correspondent and a UAE official said.
      
Two guards posted outside the empty Egyptian embassy compound were wounded in the first blast, Libya's LANA news agency reported.
      

The Foreign Ministry has announced that U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon held talks with Turkish officials in Ankara on Nov. 12, as Turkey’s involvement in global efforts to prevent a full-blown civil war in Libya become more visible.

Bulgaria's caretaker minister of foreign affairs Daniel Mitov, retains his job in the new regular government.

He is one of the youngest ministers.

"Balkan region is Germany's new interest"

BELGRADE -- Belgrade and Zagreb are committed to cooperation, foreign ministers of Serbia and Croatia, Ivica Dačić and Vesna Pusić, said in an interview for TV N1.

Dačić believes that everything that happened in the past should serve as the basis for a common future.

BELGRADE - Belgrade and Zagreb are committed to cooperation, the ministers of foreign affairs of Serbia and Croatia, Ivica Dacic and Vesna Pusic, said in an interview for Belgrade TV N1.

Dacic believes that everything that happened in the past should serve as the basis for a joint future.