Foreign Ministry

Worried about a draft resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as genocide, a group of Turkish politicians have set out for Washington to ensure that the resolution does not pass.

Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek arrived in Washington and is expected to meet his counterpart at the House of Representatives on March 25.

Time flies! It?s already three months since the ?fourth sequel? appeared here, but it?s time for more headlines from the Istanbul press in the year 2023:

A Seminar will be held at 09:30 tomorrow, Thursday, 19 March 2015, at the Foreign Ministry's Kranidiotis Amphitheatre (1 Akadimias St.) on the subject of "Business opportunities for Greek Enterprises in the framework of EU funding mechanisms".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed on Tuesday the Bulgarian Petko Draganov as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Draganov succeeds the Slovak Miroslav Jenca, who was recently appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, the site of UNRCCA informs.

AGERPRES General Director Alexandru Giboi was heard by the Culture, Arts and Mass Media Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, on the technical error occurred in the brochure "Germany-Romania. 135 years of diplomatic relations."

Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES PHOTO

China has surpassed Germany to become the world's third largest arms exporter, a Stockholm-based think tank said in a report on March 16.
   

Greek officials walked out of a meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member states in December after protesting a document referring to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by its constitutional name, which is the subject of a dispute with Athens.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic announced on Friday that 20 new ambassadors and six new consuls would be appointed in the months to come.

The Government on Wednesday passed a memorandum concerning the nomination of Romania's candidate for a judge office with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) under which incumbent judge Camelia Toader is re-nominated for office.

Photo credit: (c) Angelo BREZOIANU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Romania sacked Brandusa Predescu, the spokeperson of the Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday for mismanaging the printing of a commemorative brochure, which was handed to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier during his visit to Romania this week.