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Madrid - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Tuesday called for “constructive dialogue” to solve the Georgia conflict, with Ban expressing concern over the increasing number of displaced people in the region.

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski met with his Portuguese counterpart on Tuesday to discuss Georgia, Ukraine and the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty.

Beirut - A military investigation into last week’s attack on a Lebanese army helicopter by the Islamic group Hezbollah was likely to expand the hypothesis that there was more than one person involved, judicial sources said Tuesday.

Ljubljana - Telekom Slovenije, a state-controlled Slovenian telecommunications firm, has agreed to buy a cable TV operator in the Serb-dominated part of Bosnian-Herzegovina for 1.3 million euros (1.9 million dollars), the company said on Tuesday.

Brussels: Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze thanked the European Union for its support Tuesday and called for closer ties with Brussels.

Berlin - Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), ailing in the polls, divided on policy and facing a leadership crisis, are set to name charismatic Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as their candidate for the chancellorship in elections next year, according to a report Tuesday.

Belgrade: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide the fund of €150 million for the eastern section of Corridor 10 from Nis to Dimitrovgrad — The Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic stated yesterday.

Pristina: The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj stated that there should be talks between Pristina and Belgrade on topics “of common interest for both sides” but the talks should be without mediators.

Belgrade: Serbian Labor Minister Rasim Ljajic yesterday apologized for recent comments made by a state secretary with his ministry, Zeljko Vasiljevic. The State Secretary had recently stated that Serbia should “import” women from Asia, in order to provide bachelors in some rural areas of the country with wives.