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Kazakhstan urges OSCE to avoid 'double standards'

ASTANA, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - The Kazakh foreign minister called on the OSCE to improve its effectiveness and avoid a policy of "double standards" at a meeting of the Ministerial Council in Helsinki on Thursday. "It is...

OSCE gives cool response on Russian security pact

Russian plans for a European security pact drew a cool response from a long-established, trans-Atlantic group Thursday, with the U.S. saying there was no need for a new "security architecture." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...

Russia, U.S., France call for final peaceful solution on Nagorno-Karabakh

HELSINKI, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Russia, the United States and France called here on Thursday for an early comprehensive peaceful solution on Nagorno-Karabakh, a conflict-stricken region breakaway from Azerbaijan. The three...

NATO cool to Russian security proposals

Russian proposals for a new security pact in Europe are redundant and an attempt to weaken NATO, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday. President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia has called the NATO military alliance a Cold War relic,...

Europe, U.S. cool on Russian security pact plan

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Russian proposals for a new security pact in Europe received a cool response on Thursday, with senior European and U.S. diplomats saying they saw no need for an alternative to NATO.

Kazakhstan passes bill on religious groups

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Kazakhstan's lower house of Parliament approved controversial legislation Wednesday to increase government control over religious groups, drawing criticism from a major international group Kazakhstan...

Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project will finish in next three years, minister says

Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım has said the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (Ahılkelek) railway line project will be finished within the next three years. Speaking at a conference in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku commemorating...

Progress made over Karabakh conflict-U.S. mediator

Source: Reuters By Christian Lowe HELSINKI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenia are showing a new resolve to settle a conflict that could threaten oil exports to the West if it flares again into fighting, an ...

RA FM: European security system needs improvements

PanARMENIAN.Net/ Currently in Helsinki, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met Wednesday with OSCE Secretary-General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut to discuss the OSCE activities and exchange views on OSCE...

Lavrov: peaceful solution to Karabakh conflict should be developed

PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed the necessity to coordinate base principles on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. “We call on the sides jointly with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs to arrive at an...

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