Heiko Mass

Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Mass rejected on Monday Greece's request to impose an arms embargo on Turkey amid the ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkish and Russian delegations are set to meet in Moscow on February 17 amid escalated tension in the Syrian province of Idlib where the Turkish and Syrian military forces pit against each other with concerns of fresh armed conflicts between the two.

A joint initiative by Germany and France to address illicit firearms trafficking has moved the issue of controlling the illegal trade in small arms from the Western Balkans up the political agenda, the German Federal Foreign Office told BIRN.

The American paper said that US and Germany were on the opposite sides when it came to a plan about border change between Serbia and Kosovo and solving one of the last major territorial disputes in Europe.

Italy has refused to allow two warships that picked up by the migrants to dock on its shores, until other EU countries agree on how to share the burden of helping people rescued in an attempt to cross the Mediterranean and reach Europe.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said Tuesday that a settlement reached with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the name dispute was in Greece's national interest.

The German Justice Ministry's invitation to an official reception to former Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar as a guest of honor is a "provocation" ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Turkey, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Müftüoğlu has told reporters.