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BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic met with UK Ambassador to Serbia Sian Macleod on Thursday to discuss planned projects and aspects of future bilateral cooperation.

North Macedonia took over the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Sunday and will lead it for the next 12 months. The foreign minister of the country, Bujar Osmani, became the chairman of the OSCE and defined the restoration of mutual trust and the need to resume the dialogue on security issues as the main tasks for the current year.

There are those who enjoy observing a suffering Europe due to economic and energy crisis in Türkiye but a weakening Europe is not to Türkiye's advantage, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said, stressing that the country should focus on the problems of the continent in these difficult days and ongoing war in Ukraine.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe not only records attacks by the Ukrainian army, but also sends NATO data on the movements of Russian forces in Luhansk.

This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian delegation, Andrey Belousov, commenting on the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed in 1994. That agreement was signed by the United States of America, Russia, the United Kingdom and Ukraine in Budapest.

The European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the OSCE Mission and the United Nations have told the state authorities that they must make the process more transparent, while domestic organisations have warned of possible politicisation of the process.

Ljubljana – The coalition Freedom Movement and the Left are reserved about both appeals public figures have addressed to the government regarding Slovenia’s stance on the war in Ukraine, while the two opposition parties have expressed unequivocal support for today’s cross-partisan open letter calling for stronger support for Ukraine.

Bombings were also heard from the area of the village of Elenovka – OSCE confirms “multiple incidents” of mortar bombings in the area

Following a preliminary assessment visit to Hungary in January to meet election officials, civil society representatives, and ruling party and opposition politicians, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in its report that aspects of the election that could benefit from further assessment and the presence of election-day observers included: "voter registra

"As you have heard from the Secretary of State, the National Security Adviser and others, we do not know if the Russians are playing diplomatic games, but we hope they are not playing. Our intention is to seriously move diplomacy forward so that its doors remain open and if the Russians are ready for that, they will move through diplomacy," said a White House spokeswoman.