Jean-Yves Le Drian

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic will be on a one-day working visit to France on Tuesday at the invitation of Minister of European and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian.

The government announced this, adding that Dacic was invited by France's Minister of European and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Dacic is scheduled to meet with Le Drian, and with Secretary General of the International Organization of the Francophonie Michaelle Jean.

France's foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, leave Syria and said that Turkey and Iran were violating international law through their actions in the country, according to Reuters.

Syria and Russia on Wednesday accused the United States of lying about chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian conflict as a way of derailing efforts to bring an end to the fighting.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the "demands" placed on Europeans by US President Donald Trump in connection with the nuclear deal with Iran "are sometimes resembling ultimatums," the France press reported.

The United Nations Security Council will hold talks about the situation in Syria on Jan. 22, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on his Twitter feed on Jan. 21.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has hit out at Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic of trying to carve out an “axis” of influence stretching through Syria to the Mediterranean Sea.

Deputy Prime Minister for Justice Reform and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva will be on a two-day visit to the French Republic on 23 and 24 October, reported BGNES.

French reporter Loup Bureau, who had been held on "terror" charges in Turkey in a case that sparked tensions between Ankara and France, arrived in Paris on Sept. 17 after being freed.

Bureau, 27, arrived onboard an Air France jet at Charles de Gaulle Airport on a flight from Istanbul, the campaign group Reporters without Borders (RSF) said in a tweet.

French journalist Loup Bureau has been released from jail, his lawyer said on Sept. 15.

"We are pleased to announce the release of journalist #LoupBureau. He will be expelled from Turkey shortly," lawyer Martin Pradel said on his Twitter account.