Member states of the United Nations

Turkey says, openly or by implication, the following about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): ISIL is certainly a threat to the world and to Turkey.

BELGRADE - The participation of the Serbian Armed Forces in EU peacekeeping missions and maintaining the status of military neutrality contributes to getting Serbia closer to EU membership, which is one of our main foreign policy priorities, Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said on Monday.

FM welcomes postponement of visit

BELGRADE -- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić has said ti was "good the visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama to Belgrade has been postponed."

According to Dačić, "tensions need to be calmed" after the Serbia-Albania football match incident last week.

Romania and the Republic of Moldova can unite today only in united Europe and Chisinau's accession to the European Union and the development of the two neighbouring states together will ultimately lead not only to a symbolical flower bridge, but to a continuous development line between Bucharest and Chisinau, Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, running for president of Romani

Visit of Albanian PM postponed for Nov. 10

BELGRADE -- The official visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, scheduled originally for October 22, has been postponed for November 10.

This has been announced by the Serbian government.

BELGRADE - The prime ministers of Serbia and Albania, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama respectively, agreed on Sunday in a telephone conversation that the official visit by the Albanian prime minister to Serbia should be postponed for November 10.

Lebanon has all but closed its borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people displaced by fighting, UN and Lebanese officials said Oct. 18.

Ukraine and Russia stood on the verge of resolving their latest gas war in time to keep the war-scarred nation and EU clients warm through the winter months.

ISIL was taking heavy losses in the Syrian battleground of Kobane Oct. 19 as Iraqi forces fought the jihadists buoyed by US backing for top government security appointments

BELGRADE - The Diocese of Backa of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has called on all citizens, particularly the Diocese's believers in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, to refrain from any form of violence towards their fellow citizens of Albanian ethnicity and Muslim religion.