Communist MP Grigore Petrenco stated at a press conference on Friday that the convention’s content is a mystery as its text has never been published. “There is absolutely no transparency, we don’t know the provisions, the distances prescribed in the convention, and its beneficiaries”, said Petrenco, adding that he demanded …

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said that the Serbian government has made significant efforts over the last year in its European integration. “We are now waiting for the new report from (Hague Chief Prosecutor) Serge Brammertz to the UN Security Council in early December, to check if the Serbian government …

President Boris Tadić will continue his three-day visit to Italy on Saturday, meeting with Roman Catholic Church leader Pope Benedict XVI. Tadić will also be talking to the Vatican secretary of state and foreign minister before meeting with the Pope. He will discuss questions related to the joint goal of …

Croatia has sent a report to the Hague Tribunal stating that measures have been taken for sending all documentation request by the court to The Hague. “The report states everything that has been done, and I think that a lot has been done,” Croatian Justice Minister Ivan Šimonović said.

Turkey has announced plans to improve the rights of its Kurdish minority. The reforms are seen as a way of boosting Turkey’s chances of EU membership and include the creation of an independent anti-discrimination commission to prevent torture and discrimination. The plan also involves allowing the Kurdish language to be …

Serbian President Boris Tadic signed a decree for accreditation of Tomislav Curkin as Ambassador of the state to Macedonia. With another decree Tadic recalled the former Serbian Ambassador to Macedonia Zoran Popovic.

After one month campaign for local elections, the first after the declaration of independence of Kosovo, the election silence begins on Saturday at 00:00 a.m. In local elections to be held on Sunday, over 1.5 million voters, citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, will be eligible to vote in 750 …

Following a ceremony of signing Azerbaijan-Bulgaria documents on Friday in Sophia, Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria held a joint press conference. Bulgaria President Parvanov noted the documents signed today elevated bilateral relations to a qualitatively new level. According to him, an active political dialogue exists …

Bulgaria’s parliament is scheduled to debate on Friday a a declaration demanding that President Georgi Parvanov recall the Bulgarian ambassadors to Turkey and the United States. The center-right ruling GERB party, far-right ‘Ataka’, the rightist Blue Coalition and the conservative ‘Law, Order, Justice’ party (RZS) submitted on Wednesday the declaration, …

Following years of tensions, Romania and the Republic of Moldova moved closer Friday with the signing of several bilateral agreements, officials say.