Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will visit Kurdish-populated Diyarbakır province amidst efforts to end three decades of insurgency. Davutoğlu will travel to Diyarbakır late March 14 to deliver a speech at a university the morning of March 15.
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OSCE Helps Bosnia Speed Up War Crimes Cases
The OSCE and Bosnia’s top judicial authority have launched a joint project aimed at accelerate work on war crimes prosecutions by supporting support legal institutions. The project, which started on Monday and will continue for 15 months, is intended to help tackle the huge backlog of outstanding prosecutions
Read More »Greek Cyprus bailout looms over EU summit
The heads of states of European countries are gathering at a two-day EU summit, where they will be tackling the long-standing issue of forming a bailout plan for Greek Cyprus. The freshly elected Greek Cypriot President Anastasiades is holding his breath to come up trumps at the summit. European Union …
Read More »Romania’s goal to join euro in 2015 ‘unfeasible’: president
Romania’s goal to join the eurozone in 2015 is “unfeasible”, President Traian Basescu told lawmakers on Tuesday. “The 2015 deadline for entering the eurozone looks unfeasible to me,” Basescu said in a speech to parliament. “But it is essential for us to adopt the single currency within the next three …
Read More »Serbia Marks Tenth Anniversary of Djindjic Murder
Thousands marched through Belgrade carrying red roses as the city marked the passing of a decade since the assassination of pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.Thousands of people gathered in front of the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party in Belgrade on Tuesday for their annual procession through the capital commemorating …
Read More »OSCE Snubs Albanian Proposal to Lower Voting Age
The OSCE head in Albania, Eugen Wolfarth, on Tuesday criticised a proposal by Prime Minister Sali Berisha to rush through an extension of voting rights to 16-year-olds ahead of the June 23 elections.“Ahead of this election there is no time [for such a change],” Wolfarth said. “Such thing cannot be …
Read More »Macedonia Recalls Deportation of Jews to Camps
With the message that ‘It can be forgiven, but not forgotten,’ Macedonia on Monday marked the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish community to Nazi death camps.Representatives of the Community of the Jews in Macedonia, the Holocaust Fund of Macedonian Jews, the President, the government and other organizations …
Read More »Serbian PM says no progress reached on Serb municipalities in Kosovo
Serbian officials said in Brussels last night, “either give us the community of Serb municipalities or let’s not waste any more time”. The Serbian prime minister, Ivica Dacic, spoke after returning from the meeting at the seat of the EU, held on Monday evening. “This is about everyone’s interest in …
Read More »Turkish Foreign Ministry to meet Syriac leaders
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has invited four Syriac Metropolitans to a meeting that will take place in Ankara on March 18, amid growing interest in the community. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is also expected to participate in the meeting, alongside Turabidin Metropolitan
Read More »Azerbaijani, Montenegrin presidents have expanded meeting
Following their private talk, presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro were joined by their countries` delegations for an expanded meeting. They praised development of friendly relations between Azerbaijan and Montenegro. The sides stressed the
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