Foreign Ministry

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to receive his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Athens on December 5 and 6 when the two are to co-chair the third session of the Greek-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday following several days of rising tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

First Vice Chairman of the Liberal Christian Alliance (ACL) Catalin Predoiu considers that Titus Corlatean's stepping down as Foreign Affairs Minister is just a "smoke screen", and urges Prime Minister Victor Ponta to take over this portfolio as interim and sort out the issue of the diaspora ballot casting.

Resigning Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean on Monday said the Foreign Ministry (MAE) is still fully sticking to its position that there is no legal basis for opening additional polling stations for Romanians abroad.

Titus Corlatean on Monday announced he was resigning as foreign minister, arguing that he cannot accept to breach the law 'for political and electoral purposes and interests.'

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, with his almond mustache and typical Pinocchio smile on his face was boasting at an Ankara meeting how under his government, Turkey will be steered to a prosperous centennial of the republic and beyond.

Foreign Ministry: No observers in Ukraine

BELGRADE -- Representatives of Serbia's official institutions had not been employed as observers in the electoral process in the east of Ukraine on November 2.

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced on Wednesday that such representatives had in no way been involved in that process.

The Romanian voters living abroad can use the form of the declaration on their own responsibility that they had not already cast a vote in the presidential runoff on Nov.

MEP Monica Macovei, also a candidate in the recent first round of the presidential election, on Tuesday asked for Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean be dismissed from office for the incidents in the voting process conducted for Romanians abroad.

Bulgaria does not accept presidential and parliamentary elections held on Sunday in Ukraine's Donbass as legitimate, Foreign Ministry officials say.

Genoveva Chervenakova, who heads the institution's press service, told the Bulgarian National Radio the vote was not in line with international law.

Iran has accused Turkey of prolonging the three-year conflict in neighboring Syria by insisting on President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow and supporting “terrorist groups,” the official IRNA news agency has reported.