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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross held a phone conversation, according to a Turkish diplomatic source on Jan. 12. 

Çavuşoğlu and Ross discussed bilateral economic relations, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Ross requested the phone call, it added.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva spoke with her counterpart from Croatia Gordhan Grlic Radman about the devastating earthquake that rocked the Balkans at noon today, the Press Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

Sven Marcelic, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Zadar, told BIRN that one problem facing Croatia during the EU presidency is that, owing to the pandemic, "it is completely enclosed within a national framework", and so cannot fulfill its leadership function in the EU "at a moment when de facto it does not preside".

Bulgaria welcomes Croatia's decision to place the Western Balkans among the priorities of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2020, Bulgaria's Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva said in Zagreb, where she met with her Croatian counterpart Gordan Grlić Radman within the frameworks of her official visit to Croat

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva arrived at Franjo Tudjman Airport in Zagreb last night. She is on an official visit to the Republic of Croatia at the invitation of Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić-Radman, the Foreign Ministry said.
 

People from the Croatian coastal town of Sibenik have launched a petition calling on the French authorities to continue the search for the missing crew members of the Bourbon Rhode, which sank on September 26 in the Atlantic, among whom is their fellow citizen, Croatian Captain Dino Miskic.

Croatia has suspended a senior diplomat at its embassy in Berlin over Facebook posts in which she promoted the European Union's newest member as populated only by "white Europeans".

Elizabeta Madjarevic, the embassy's first secretary, was recalled to Croatia and her dismissal has been initiated, the foreign ministry said on Monday.

Journalists and editors will gather Tuesday at the headquarters of the Croatian Journalists' Association, HND, to stage a protest walk toward the nearby building of the national culture ministry.