International security

Bulgaria's Defence Council has nominated Lieutenant General Constantin Popov as new Chief of Defence, replacing Vice Admiral Rumen Nikolov.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday said that the nuclear weapons test announced by North Korea undermines regional and international security, and is in clear breach of UN Security Council resolutions.

The international security agenda and the theoretical ways to study it have expanded tremendously since the end of the Cold War. Once the strict control of the global east-west military ideological rivalry lifted, various new threats and ways to analyze them emerged. These were the issues discussed in a three-day workshop organized recently by the International Relations Council of Turkey.

Russia and other permanent UN Security Council members are trying to come up with a compromise text of the Srebrenica resolution.

This was announced on Wednesday by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, who spoke for Sputnik.

China has proposed a postponement of the voting in the UN Security Council on a British draft resolution on Srebrenica.

China believes that consensus among all UN Security Council members should be achieved first.

The Russian mission at the United Nations in New York will on Monday submit a draft resolution on Bosnia-Herzegovina to the UN Security Council.

Russia on June 11 warned the United States of consequences if it moves to deploy land-based missiles in Europe in contravention of a key Cold-War era arms control treaty.

Russia could veto a resolution on Srebrenica, prepared by Britain, in the UN Security Council, the Belgrade based newspaper Danas is reporting.

The daily quoted unnamed sources who said it was "necessary for Serbia to express its opposition to the proposed document, in order to obtain Moscow's support."

Occupying the entrance floor of SALT Beyo?lu, a new installation, titled "Strait" by architect Neyran Turan, constructs a physical and imagined Bosphorus as the peculiar petrol pipeline it has become since the 1990s. 

Turkey is looking for non-NATO suppliers of weapons systems as its potential $3.44 billion anti-missile deal with a Chinese company remains a mystery Turkey shocked its NATO allies on Sept. 13, 2013, when it announced that it selected a Chinese company to build its first long-range air and anti-missile defense system.