The IMF and the Serbian government successfully completed the third review of their 2.9 billion-euro arrangement, IMF mission chief Albert Jaeger told a press conference in Belgrade on Tuesday. He said that key quantitative targets under the programme have been met and that the IMF Board will likely approve the …

UN Special Envoy to Cyprus Alexander Downer said on Tuesday that talks to resolve the long-standing dispute between the Greek and Turkish communities on the island will be delayed by the April 18th vote to elect a new Turkish Cypriot leader. The two main candidates to become “president” of the …

The UN mediator in the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, is urging both countries to accelerate negotiations to resolve the long-standing row. “I believe it is very important to speed up the talks and make certain decisions,” Nimetz said after meeting Tuesday with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio …

Moscow has put forward to a new Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yanukovich, a number of categorical demands, which are required for the resumption of friendly relations between the two countries, magazine “Vlast (Power)”, as well as some Ukrainian sources, reported. The head of the administration of formal Kremlin ringleader, Sergei Naryshkin, …

Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov is expected to confer for the first time with European Council President Herman Von Rompuy during the second day of his working visits to Belgium and Luxembourg.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has congratuled Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov on his activeness for bolstering the EU. Barroso and Parvanov met in Brussels Tuesday night, after the Bulgarian President met with EP head Jerzy Buzek and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy earlier in the day.

The Hague Tribunal President, Judge Patrick Robinson, said the appeal in Radovan Karadzic case would be completed by February 2014, and all other appeals in 2013.

The EU foreign ministers yesterday extended the mandates of most special representatives worldwide, including Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) Valentin Inzko. His was due to expire next week. The EU justice and interior ministers are expected to extend Pieter Feith’s mandate as EU special representative to Kosovo by another six months …

Macedonian government will remain completely constructive in solving name dispute and we believe that UN mediator’s visit will move forward name talks. Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski made the remarks on the eve of today’s meeting with Matthew Nimetz, who arrived in Macedonia this afternoon. Gruevski said that Macedonian top officials are …

Autoritatile transnsitrene au primit permisiunea de a intra pe teritoriul Uniunii Europene, dupa ce Bruxellesul a decis sa ridice sanctiunile pana in septembrie 2010, transmite Radio Romania Actualitati. Consiliul ministrilor de Externe ai statelor Uniunii Europene a prelungit formal sanctiunile impotriva autoritatilor transnistrene pentru inca un an – pana la …