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United Nations envoy Jane Holl Lute on Sunday held further consultations with the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities on restarting the stalled peace negotiations for the reunification of Cyprus.

Bucharest, April 7 /Agerpres/ - Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Sunday sent a message on the occasion of the International Roma Day (April 8), in which she showed that this celebration has a double significance - of joy, as well as homage to Roma victims of the Holocaust of World War II.

Turkey was "disappointed" over European Commission's first vice president's remarks on local elections, the country's foreign ministry spokesman said on April 7.

Turkish president and his Russian counterpart will meet on April 8 for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia cross-cultural year, the Russian ambassador to Ankara told Anadolu Agency.     

Libyan forces under Khalifa Haftar battled their way to the south of Tripoli on April 5, prompting the U.N. Security Council and the G7 to demand a halt to the military advance on the capital.

Turkey's ruling party spokesperson said on April 5 that objections of political parties to election results are "quite normal," voicing confidence over the capability of the top election authority, which will have the final say.      

Representatives from Turkey's business circle on April 5 voiced their expectations for structural reform in the economic area in the upcoming less than a five-year period before the next elections.       

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Mansur Yavaş won the mayoral seat in Turkish capital Ankara by over 124,000 votes, claimed a party official on April 5, despite an appeal by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) against the results.

The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency held a "Turkey Today" discussion panel as part of a series of events organized in strategically key countries for Turkey in the Russian capital on April 4.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, on an official visit to the Slovak Republic, welcomed the fact that the Romanian-Slovak trade has exceeded for the first time the three-billion-euro threshold at the end of 2018.