Foreign Ministry

Serbia wants to renew ties with Zambia - Dacic

BELGRADE -- Serbia is interested in renewing its traditionally friendly relations and bilateral cooperation with Zambia, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.

he made the comments after meeting with Zambian Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba in Belgrade on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia is interested in renewing its traditionally friendly relations and bilateral cooperation with Zambia, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said after meeting with Zambian Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The move by Moscow to lift an embargo on supplying Iran with S-300 air defense missile systems is "unhelpful", a Pentagon official has said.

On Sunday Russia announced it would renounce a ban on selling the equipment to Iran after substantial progress was marked in talks of world powers with Iran over the country's controversial nuclear program earlier in April.

Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu met on Monday in Barcelona with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto, on the sidelines of the ministerial Conference joining EU Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from Southern European Neighborhood Policy partner countries.

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Another 10 Romanian citizens and a family member were evacuated on Sunday from Yemen, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed in a release to AGERPRES.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu participates this Monday, in Barcelona, in the informal ministerial Conference joining EU Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from Southern European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) partner countries.

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About 150 nationals of Russia and other countries including Bulgaria have left war-torn Yemen on board a second Russian plane on Sunday, TASS reported.

The Il-62 passenger aircraft landed at Chkalovskiy Airport near Moscow early on Sunday. This was after the second evacuation flight of a Russian plane from Yemen over the past 24 hours and the seventh one over the past two weeks.

The Universal Exhibition Expo Milano 2015 styled "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" opens on May 1. Romania has its own pavilion, with the theme "Living with Nature," the Foreign Affairs Ministry informed in a release to AGERPRES on Thursday.

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Turkey has hosted a working group of the coalition to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL), during which further measures to stem the flow of foreign fighters across the border were discussed. 

Freedom of expression topped the agenda of European Parliament President Martin Schulz's April 8 visit to Turkey, where he met a number of senior officials.