Member states of the United Nations

BELGRADE - The exhibition entitled "Traditional African Murals" by Natasa Njegovanovic Ristic will be opened at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade on Tuesday.

The exhibition will display photographs of painted, relief and mosaic decorations used in house exterior and interior design and settlements in different parts of the African continent.

South Korea has proposed to resume high-level talks with North Korea on several issues, including preparation for "peaceful unification".

The adoption of a human rights declaration by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that was designed to shield wealthy Gulf monarchies, including 2022 World Cup host Qatar, from criticism by human rights and trade union activists is likely to increase pressure on the sports-focused Gulf state to significantly alter its controversial migrant labor system.

Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding with Kyrgyzstan aimed at increasing trade the volume to $1 billion between the two countries on Dec. 26.

BELGRADE - Serbian citizens will be able to enjoy cheaper phone calls with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia, as the prices of the services will gradually decrease in the next three years, Director of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RATEL) Milan Jankovic said on Thursday.

Large queues at supermarkets are the norm in Romania during the Christmas holiday season, and this year consumers are likely to spend similar amounts of money compared to previous years, according to preliminary estimates.

Around 69 per cent of people plan to give Christmas gifts, a recent survey from the Centre for the Studying of Market and Opinion, CSOP, said.

Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials met in Cairo to discuss a possible reconciliation as part of Saudi efforts to broker an end to the 18-month standoff over Doha's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, security sources said.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have found themselves among the 10 countries with the highest levels of militarization in the world, according to the Global Militarization Index 2014 revealed by the Bonn International Center for Conversation.

North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United  States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Dec. 23, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said.
   

Speaker visits Moscow, reiterates policy on sanctions

MOSCOW -- Russia is "very grateful to Serbia for not succumbing to pressure from Brussels and Washington" when it comes to imposing sanctions against Russia.

This is what Russian State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin told Serbian Assembly President Maja Gojkovic in Moscow on Monday.