Frank-Walter Steinmeier

French President Francois Hollande hosts leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan today as Europe makes a fresh push to end the festering conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited both countries last week after a sharp escalation in violence over the disputed region in recent months as war raged in Ukraine.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbian first deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, has met with German and British Ambassadors to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm and Dennis Keefe, who presented him with an invitation to the conference of ministers of foreign affairs in Berlin on November 5.

The German government has approved a move to send a weapons package to Iraq's Kurdish regional authorities fighting Sunni insurgents called Islamic State (IS).

Germany will send anti-tank rocket launchers, rifles and hand grenades to support Iraqi Kurds battling jihadist militants fighting for the Islamic State, the Defense Ministry announced Aug. 31.

The move followed a meeting of ministers led by Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to discuss what Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen described as an "extremely critical" situation in Iraq.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will attend the Conference on the Western Balkans due to take place in Berlin on Thursday at the initiative of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that no pressure was put on him in Germany and that Berlin is primarily interested if Serbia will stay on the EU path, adding that the opening of Chapters 32 and 35 of the EU accession talks can be expected by the end of the year.

BERLIN - German Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier qualified as impressive on Friday the reforms implemented in Serbia so far, and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic noted that the relations with Germany bear vital importance for Serbia, adding that Berlin can count on Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Friday.

Ahead of the visit, Dacic said that he and Steinmeier will discuss Serbia's accession to the European Union.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Friday.

Turkey was the only NATO member that the German foreign intelligence agency (BND) spied on and the scope of the program covers the whole country, sources in the German intelligence community have told daily Hürriyet.