EU-Turkey meeting on visa-free travel postponedMay 10, 2016 - 15:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The meeting scheduled to be held in Brussels on Friday, May 13 between the ministers of Turkey and the European Union was postponed due to AK Party's emergency convention decision taken last week, Daily Sabah reports. The EU meeting, to be attended by EU Minister and Turkey’s Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozkır and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, was delayed at least for a month. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) had announced Wednesday that it will hold an emergency convention on May 22 after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced he is stepping down from his post. Sources close to the EU said the ministers were to discuss Ankara's roadmap and the steps it needs to take to ensure visa exemption as well as the evaluation of EU-Turkey relations. Bozkır was expected to travel to Strasbourg and Brussels next week to meet with EU leaders as well as representatives from the political parties in the European Parliament to explain Ankara's reform process and to voice concerns regarding the visa liberalization process. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |