Border demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro should be completed by the end of the year, Interior Minister Ivan Brajovic and his Kosovo counterpart Bajram Rexhepi said on Monday (June 21st) in Podgorica. “The administrative boundaries of former Yugoslavia have already been transformed into state borders,” Brajovic said. The two ministers …

The governments of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) held their first joint meeting Monday (June 21st) in the coastal city of Split. They concluded that bilateral relations are good and are based on mutual respect of

In a speech Monday (June 21st) to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said he expects that after the International Court of Justice delivers its opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s independence, the UN General Assembly will urge all sides to find an agreement on …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and commented on the Macedonia name dispute. “It is unfortunate that a solution has not been found so far,” reports quoted him as saying.

EU Council must fix a date for starting talks for Macedonian membership very soon. This is what French MEP and Chairman of the European People’s Party (EPP) Joseph Daul who pay visit to Macedonia. Joseph Daul met with President George Ivanov and PM Nikola Gruevski in Skopje.

The Greek government will “undertake a diplomatic initiative” in an attempt to salvage the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis gas pipeline project which was scrapped by Bulgaria last week, Bulgaria media reported on June 22 2010.

Serbian President Boris Tadić will take part in the Summit Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of South East Europe in Istanbul on Wednesday. During the day, Tadić will also participate in the Summit of Heads of State of South East Europe under the sponsorship of UNESCO, the …

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has denied the request of Gojko Jankovic, convicted of war crimes by the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo, to review his case. Jankovic, wartime commander of a paramilitary unit that operated together with the Army of Republika Srpska, VRS, in the …

Albania’s Minister of Interior Lulzim Basha declared on Monday that Albania’s Presidency of the Regional Initative for Migration, Asylum and Refugees would be dedicated to creating a Balkan Schengen system.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE, has begun its discussion of a draft report on Kosovo that points to poor respect for the rule of law as one of the main problems facing Kosovo. The report, which was prepared by the CoE rapporteur for the political affairs …