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Kammenos talks with US counterpart in Washington called off
Defense Minister Panos Kammenos will not be meeting his US counterpart Thursday as the encounter has been called off by Washington, sources told Kathimerini Tuesday.
Kammenos had been due to meet Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on his latest visit to the USA but will not hold talks with him or Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work.
Turkish FM to visit Washington before Obama's April 24 declaration on Armenian issue
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu will visit Washington from April 18 to 21, during which he is likely to focus influencing the wording of the White House?s official commemoration on the upcoming centennial anniversary of the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915.
US President Intends to Drop Cuba From State Sponsors of Terrorism List
US President Barack Obama announced in Congress on Tuesday that he intends to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
This move will be an important step towards restoring diplomatic relations between the two countries, which have been characterised by hostility in the past five decades.