Member states of the Council of Europe

Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council that the Balkans remains "a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode again."

Turkish Agriculture Minister Faruk Çelik has said the losses from Russian sanctions on Turkey's agricultural products are estimated to be around $764 million.

Macedonian police has used tear gas to push back illegal migrants who tried to storm through the country's border with Greece on Wednesday.

Turkish officials have said they are not overly worried about Russian trade sanctions against Turkish goods, adding they are in search of alternative markets as the loss of the Russian market is not in intolerable amounts. 

Members of the Serbian assembly said today, as NATO invited Montenegro to start membership negotiations, that Serbia should be militarily neutral.

However, they also said that Serbia within the framework of neutrality should enhance cooperation with NATO.

Turkish construction companies operating in Russia are facing several difficulties, including additional financial audits or cancelations in new projects, amid Ankara's ongoing diplomatic crisis with Moscow, Turkish Contractors Association (TMB) head Mithat Yenigün has said. 

Greece is playing a central role in the dialog between European Union and Turkey as the main issue is to better control the Greek-Turkish border, a German government official said ahead of the EU-Turkey Summit meeting.

The number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell 4.02 percent year-on-year in October to 3.3 million people amid escalating security concerns and a decline in the number of Russian tourists. 

Overall in the first 10 months of 2015, the number of foreign visitors dropped 1.4 percent year-on-year to 33.05 million, data from the Turkish Tourism Ministry showed on Nov. 27.

Any trade retaliation by Russia over Turkey's downing of a jet flying sorties in Syria would hurt Russian farmers more, Turkish Agriculture Minister Faruk Çelik said on Nov. 27, pointing to import-export figures.

Turkey has not yet received official notification of any embargo by Russia, Çelik also told reporters. 

Aleksandar Vulin stated on Thursday that the number of migrants entering Serbia from the direction of Macedonia has fallen considerably.

The minister of labor and social affairs added that Serbia "still acts in an organized and humane way."