Foreign Ministry

Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu makes an appeal to the Romanian voters from abroad to hit the polls on Nov. 16 as early as possible.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) met with Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Belgrade on Friday and expressed full support for Serbia's chairmanship of the OSCE in 2015 and willingness to work together during that period.

The EU diplomats stated that Serbia's success in chairing the OSCE would also be their success.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet China's Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Chao on Friday, the government office for media relations has stated.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will also meet Chao afterwards, the Foreign Ministry said.

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.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has accused the three opposition parties of acting as they are favoring one oppressor over the other.

“We call an oppressor by name, we call him ‘the oppressor’ and we side with the oppressed without any discrimination,” he said.

A senior Turkish diplomat has been appointed as chair of a key intergovernmental body aimed at resolving a centuries-old conflict in the Philippines, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to receive his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Athens on December 5 and 6 when the two are to co-chair the third session of the Greek-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday following several days of rising tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

First Vice Chairman of the Liberal Christian Alliance (ACL) Catalin Predoiu considers that Titus Corlatean's stepping down as Foreign Affairs Minister is just a "smoke screen", and urges Prime Minister Victor Ponta to take over this portfolio as interim and sort out the issue of the diaspora ballot casting.

Resigning Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean on Monday said the Foreign Ministry (MAE) is still fully sticking to its position that there is no legal basis for opening additional polling stations for Romanians abroad.

Titus Corlatean on Monday announced he was resigning as foreign minister, arguing that he cannot accept to breach the law 'for political and electoral purposes and interests.'