Foreign Ministry

Turkey has summoned Greece’s ambassador to Ankara to the Foreign Ministry to express the government’s reaction over the Greek Cypriot administration’s decision to halt the reunification talks

A total of 77,059 voters have cast ballots in polling stations abroad in Bulgaria's early parliamentary elections by 7 pm Sofia time on Sunday.

Nearly half of them, 38 766, voted in Turkey, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Joksimovic: Support for opening first chapter by end of year

VIENNA -- Jadranka Joksimovic has said that Serbia has received strong support from Austria.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected a proposal to acquire an island drifting across the Pacific Ocean.

It has described the 30 000 km territory, which is roughly the size of Belgium, as "movable property" and "an artificial floating object".

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met on Monday with Peter Friedrich, Baden-Wuerttemberg's Minister for Bundesrat, Europe and International Affairs, who is heading the delegation of this German federal state in the 3rd session of the Serbia - Baden-Wuerttemberg Joint Commission, which started in Belgrade on Monday.

The Bosnian Foreign Minister and Social Democratic Party leader, Zlatko Lagumdzija, met the Charge d'Affaires of the US Embassy, Nicholas Hill, on September 23, to rebut charges of neglect and corruption contained in a recent blog post by two senior US officials.

A bus carrying 25 Romanian passengers aboard returning to Romanian from Kusadasi, Turkey, on Sunday capsized at the Republika Pass, Bulgaria, between Gurkovo and Veliko Tarnovo. First reports by Romania's Interior Ministry (MAI) mention that one passenger died and five were seriously injured.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has said he is seriously concerned with the abduction of Estonian police official Eston Kohver on September 5, 2014.

In a statement, he has called the incident "a violation of international law on behalf of the Russian Federation".

The Foreign Ministry is calling on Russia to immediately release Kohver and secure his return to Estonia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met outgoing French Ambassador Francois-Xavier Deniau on Friday and the two agreed that the dialogue between the two countries had improved.

Serbia and France are linked by a tradition of friendship, and their relations are intensive, they said.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned the US charge d'affaires over a media report that the United States had spied on Turkey intensively since 2006.