Iran denied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to ship its surplus enriched uranium to Russia under new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

• Date: 03.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip prevented on Sunday a group of Palestinian children who lost parents in the July-August war with Israel from making a rare goodwill visit to the Jewish state, organizers of the trip said.

• Date: 28.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.12.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to the Russian government on Sunday to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to implement a ceasefire plan agreed in Minsk in September aimed at ending the conflict.

• Date: 28.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine, naming NATO expansion among key external risks, the Kremlin said on Friday, days after Ukraine made fresh steps to join the Atlantic military alliance.

• Date: 26.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 26.12.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine's pursuit of NATO membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev's bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.

• Date: 25.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 25.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Wednesday NATO was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties with the Atlantic military alliance if Ukraine's hopes of joining it were realized.

• Date: 24.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A fresh round of peace talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be held in the Belarussian capital on Dec. 24 and 26, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement on Monday.

• Date: 23.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

European security watchdog the OSCE prolonged the mandate of its observer mission at two Russian checkpoints on the border with Ukraine by three months on Thursday, the longest extension so far.

• Date: 18.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 18.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/