President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov received the head of the Center of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ashgabat, Sergei Belyaev, who ended his mission in the country, the Turkmen government said on Friday. According to the report, representative of the major international organization stressed that the OSCE highly appreciates and supports the peace-making policy of Turkmenistan and international initiatives that meet goals of general welfare.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations called on Iran Thursday to engage in "constructive and serious dialogue" and comply with its obligations to resolve the dispute over its nuclear programme, dpa reported. "Iran's persistent failure to comply with its obligations under (UN Security Council) resolutions and to meet the requirements of the IAEA Board of Governors resolutions is a cause of urgent concern," the ministers said in a statement issued at the close of their meeting.

The possibility of war in the Middle East is very slim, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast said today, during his speech at the university in Belgrade, ISNA reported. Mehmanparast underscored that the main problem in the region are the foreign military forces that create instability. He noted that the instability is being created by the West, which has its interests in the region under threat.

Representative of Turkish Nationalist Movement Party in the Adana city Mustafa Halacoglu proposed to erect a monument in the city to the victims of the Khojaly genocide committed by Armenia against the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Zaman newspaper reported. "Monuments to Khojaly victims should be erected in all major cities of Turkey to prevent future generations to forget the crimes committed by Armenia against Azerbaijanis," Halacoglu said.

“The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Ukraine was $1.4 billion last year. The volume of trade turnover between our countries is dynamically developing,” Ukraine’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alexander Mishchenko said, APA reports. He said the heads of both states repeatedly underlined the importance of raising economic relations to the level of political relations. “Our resources allow us to raise the volume of trade turnover by $2 billion, I hope we will achieve it.

The Iranian parliament (Majlis) will impeach Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare Abdolreza Sheikholeslami this Sunday, First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Iran Mohammad-Reza Bahonar said, Fars reported. Bahonar noted that over 20 parliamentaries signed an impeachment document, which was later approved. He also said that parliamentaries want former Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi to resign, however, the government protects Mortazavi.

Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Baramidze left for a working visit to Turkey, Prime Minister's Office told Trend on Wednesday. According to the report, Baramidze will attend the 15th Eurasian Economic Summit which opens on Wednesday in Istanbul. Representatives of the United States, Austria, Bosnia, France, Germany, Ukraine, Greece, Switzerland, Estonia and other countries are invited to the summit.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Washington is not seeking new enemies in Asia, dismissing the notion of a new Cold War in the dynamic region, Xinhua reported. "We are not seeking new enemies. Today's China is not the Soviet Union. We are not on the brink of a new Cold War in Asia," Clinton said in a foreign policy speech on Asia-Pacific at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, when he is expected to discuss recent developments in Syria Today`s Zaman reported. Erdoğan's office said the prime minister, who is currently on an official visit to China, will pay an official visit to Saudi Arabia between April 12 and 14. The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet to discuss Syria on Friday, a Saudi official told Reuters on Tuesday, in a mark of accelerating diplomacy on a crisis in which both regional powers have condemned President Bashar al-Assad.

“Syrian leadership started to implement Kofi Annan’s plan for solving the crisis”, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a joint briefing with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem, APA reports. Russian FM said that they discussed the implementation of the plan in details: “Annan’s plan provides the implementation of reforms by Syrian government, fulfillment of special commitments by opposition, stop of armed violence against all sides, rendering humanitarian assistance to the population and start of political dialogue between the sides.