Victoria Nuland

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland voiced support for Serbia along the path toward full membership in the EU.

She did this in a meeting with leader of the Democratic Party (DS) Bojan Pajtic, and underlined the importance of the opposition's role in the democratic oversight of the government.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that "not everyone in the region is willing to share with Serbia the burden of the work to stabilize the region."

Nikolic made the comments on Tuesday in Belgrade, during his meeting with U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland. According to him, "Serbia has invested a lot of effort to stabilize the situation in the region.

Commissioner Hahn arrived on a rescue mission in Skopje on Tuesday after opposition leader Zoran Zaev last Wednesday said crisis talks with the government had failed and the EU- brokered deal on snap elections was dead in the water.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will pay a visit to Belgrade on Tuesday.

Nuland will meet Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.

The US Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, on Monday visited Macedonia to try and help solve the crisis over the illegal surveillance scandal centred on Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

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.

A scheduled meeting this week in Washington D.C. between US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Greece’s DM, Panos Kammenos, has been postponed, according to reports.

No reason was given for the postponement, according to information first published by the tovima.gr site and the longtime correspondent in the US capital, Mihalis Ignatiou.

The US will be standing next to Bulgaria in tough times. The statement was made by Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Hoyt Yee following his meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov.

The United States gives importance to the ?quality of Turkish democracy? not just in political and economic terms, but also as a security issue, said Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, following high level contacts in Turkey on April 16, ahead of a NATO meeting in May and Turkish elections in June.

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.