Military operations other than war

A new plan being put forward by the European Commission for managing natural disasters like the deadly flash floods that hit western Attica last week contains significant incentives for European Union member-states to strengthen their prevention and management systems.

Turkey has dispatched a total of 70 trucks of humanitarian supplies to quake-hit regions in northern Iraq, the head of a
Turkish aid agency said on Nov. 15.

Defense Ministry and Serbian Army members are participating in ten peacekeeping missions, under the command of the UN and the EU, says Aleksandar Vulin.

The Serbian defense minister added that it was "time for Serbia to start considering participation in civilian missions next year."

France's lower house of parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law intended to bring an end to a nearly two-year-long state of emergency, reported BBC. 

The law will incorporate several measures first authorised under the emergency arrangement.

They include easier searches of homes and confining individuals to their home towns, without judicial approval.

Ethiopia's parliament on Aug. 4 lifted a nationwide state of emergency decreed last year after Africa's second most-populous country was rocked by months of protests.

Ana Brnabic told the Summit of the US-Adriatic Charter (A5) in Podgorica that Serbia is a military neutral country, committed to cooperating with all partners.

China has officially opened its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, state media said on Aug. 1, a major step for the country's expansion of its military presence abroad.

Chinese military personnel, officials and guests attended a flag-raising ceremony and military parade to mark the occasion, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

A bill to extend the state of emergency for another three months was submitted to the Turkish parliament on July 17.

France has deployed anti-terrorist measures within a state of emergency to curb peaceful protests, Amnesty International says. It adds that emergency laws were used not to protect civilians after the 2015 Paris attacks, but to restrict their human rights.

FM: Serbia committed to peacekeeping operations

Ivica Dacic said in New York on Tuesday that Serbia "significantly contributes to peacekeeping forces in UN missions" and in the regional leader in this.