Georgia said Thursday it has accepted a Swiss proposal that could open the way for Russia to join the World Trade Organization. Russia needs to reach individual agreements with all 153 members of the WTO, and the lack of progress in negotiations with Georgia has been the last significant stumbling …

The speaker of parliament, Jakup Krasniqi, says it’s not up to the Kosovo government to remove Serb barricades in the north as that is the responsibility of international peacekeepers. A senior official in Kosovo says the government in Pristina expects NATO peacekeepers in KFOR to remove Serb roadblocks erected in …

Serbia and Croatia will begin conducting joint military exercises if an agreement is ratified by the countries’ two respective governments, Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said today. Elaborating on the document before Serbian MPs, Malovic said today that the agreement opens possibilities for conducting joint military exercises.

The European Parliament approved Tuesday a resolution urging all EU Member States to allow Bulgarians and Romanians onto their labor markets by the end of 2011. In a press release, the EP informs that a draft resolution prepared by Romanian MEP from the European People’s Party (EPP) Traian Ungureanu, showing …

KFOR Commander Erhard Drews believes that the Wednesday meeting in Zvečan is unnecessary. Even though Kosovo Serbs have invited him, Drews will not appear at the meeting, said commander’s spokesperson on Tuesday evening.

A Serb leader in North Kosovo says the 50,000 Serbs living there want to merge with Serbia, and will not live in an independent Kosovo, whatever the EU and NATO say. The head of the Serbian National Council, Nebojsa Jovic, says that 50,000 Kosovo Serbs living in the area north …

Macedonia receives a positive report from the European Commission for a third time and implements essential reforms in its judicial system, education, healthcare, fight with crime and corruption for a third time, reads the conclusion from a conference organized by the youth organization of the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE. According to …

The last of the four war-crimes cases concerning atrocities originally alleged to have been committed by former ethnic Albanian rebels during the 2001 armed conflict have been annulled by the Macedonian justice system. On Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office in Macedonia stated that it had given up from

Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian spiritual leaders will meet in Yerevan in late November, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II said at a meeting with the mediators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. The meeting will be held within the meeting of the presidium of the CIS inter-religious council.

The next round of Georgian-Russian WTO talks will be held on Oct.25, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a traditional briefing on Monday. Kalandadze stressed that Russia does not agree to the requirement on transparency of Georgia’s