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US President Donald Trump personally took the decision to close the Russian Federation Consulate in San Francisco and the diplomatic buildings in Washington and New York. He has made a choice and does not plan to discuss this over the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior US administration official told RIA Novosti.

The Trump administration will try to drastically cut financial aid that this country is giving to Eastern European countries, writes Bloomberg.

The on-going North Korean nuclear crisis, in addition to the previous nuclear crises with Iraq and Iran, demonstrates that we lack a coherent, peaceful approach to respond decisively to major nuclear proliferation threats.

In all three cases, world leaders have wavered between war and diplomacy. The results have been suboptimal.

The new US administration's message is that it is taking responsibility for stability, prosperity and peace in Europe, in the EU, and in the Western Balkans.

This is according to Slovenia's Ambassador to NATO Jelko Kacin, who was commenting on the recent visit of US Vice President Mike Pence to Montenegro, Montenegro's state broadcaster RTCG has reported.

The new US administration's message is that it is taking responsibility for stability, prosperity and peace in Europe, in the EU, and in the Western Balkans.

This is according to Slovenia's Ambassador to NATO Jelko Kacin, who was commenting on the recent visit of US Vice President Mike Pence to Montenegro, Montenegro's state broadcaster RTCG has reported.

North Korea has said it is considering a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after Donald Trump warned the regime that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lashed new US sanctions as a "full-fledged economic war" on Moscow, saying they crushed hopes for repairing ties and demonstrated President Donald Trump's "total weakness ... in the most humiliating way'', Economic Times reports. 

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that the United States declared a full-fledged trade war by introducing new anti-Russia sanctions, adding that there is no chance that the relations between the two states will improve.

WASHINGTON - The main goal of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Washington is to "establish an improved and direct relationship" with the new US administration, says Daniel Serwer, professor at the Johns Hopkins University.

Speaking to Tanjug ahead of Vucic's visit, Serwer said the Serbian president would "seek support for Serbia's EU ambitions."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's meeting with the US Vice President Mike Pence on Monday in the United States is an opportunity to consolidate Belgrade's ties with Washington, but also to talk about issues that are troubling the US administration, first of all - on whose side is Belgrade, reports the Voice of America.