Monday’s talks between the parties in the ruling Alliance for European Integration and communists did not bring a solution to the problem with the election of a president. After the meeting the MPs said this was a good beginning. The representative of the
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Israeli defense minister visits Greece to boost cooperation
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday pledged to further expand blossoming military cooperation with Greece, at the start of an official visit to Athens. “We are committed to work together and deepen our relationship,” Barak said after talks with his Greek counterpart, Dimitris Avramopoulos.
Read More »UN Secretary General wants Cyprus to solve tensions by July 1
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called upon Greek and Turkish Cypriots to resolve their differences before July 1, when Cyprus takes over the rotating European Union presidency, in a letter published Tuesday. This would pave the way for an international
Read More »Kosovo crossings in Serbia fixed
Kosovo citizens can again enter Serbia at the Merdare border, after Belgrade fixed a technical glitch that had delayed crossings for several days. For three days in a row, hundreds of passengers were stuck at the main
Read More »Serbian President receives Medal of the Serb Republic
Serbian President Boris Tadić is among the recipients of the Medal of the Serb Republic, presented on the 20th anniversary of the Serb entity’s founding. RS President Milorad Dodik signed a decree awarding the medal to several former RS presidents and a number of Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) dignitaries and …
Read More »Afghanistan will move embassy from Bulgaria to Greece
Afghanistan would shut its embassy in Bulgaria and open a mission in Greece in a few months to assist thousand of illegal migrants in that country, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday. The embassy in Athens would open by the end of March to address …
Read More »Republika Srpska celebrates 20th year anniversary
Bosnia’s predominantly Serb entity is celebrating twenty years since its creation on Monday, with the Serbian president and other top politicians set to make appearances. Republika Srpska, one of the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, is celebrating its founding on Monday
Read More »Skopje prepares for upcoming name talks with Greece
Macedonia will lean on the world court ruling related to its name dispute with Greece at the forthcoming UN talks with Athens. Skopje planned to use the ruling in the next set of talks, scheduled for January.
Read More »EU facilitator for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue not satisfied with results
I expect a new Belgrade- Priština meeting to be held in January and I believe that an agreement is already close, EU facilitator Robert Cooper has stated. When asked whether he was satisfied with the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, Cooper said that he was not.
Read More »U.S. extradites war crimes suspect in 1990s
The United States on Tuesday extradited a Muslim Bosnian woman suspected of killing six Croats in 1993 during a war that ripped the region apart, the prosecutor’s office in Sarajevo, Bosnia, said. The woman, Rasema Handanovic, 39, is suspected of taking part in the mass killings of Croatian civilians in …
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