Turkey’s sanctions against Syrian government mainly target bilateral economic, military, political and banking ties in order not to effect its people. Turkey’s sanctions against Syria, which will likely be announced in early October, will be as comprehensive as possible and will be shaped so as not to hurt the country’s …

The Balkans will only become a permanently stable region when all the countries that comprised the former Yugoslavia are accepted as members of the European Union, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly. 

Bulgaria may receive its first gas deliveries from Azerbaijan in 2013, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said after a meeting with his Azeri counterpart Natig Aliyev in Baku. Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) and Greece’s power utility DEPA have pledged to complete the gas inter-connection between Bulgaria and Greece in …

Serbia’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković has said that Serbia has fulfilled all conditions necessary to get the EU candidate status. He added, however, that Serbia would not give up on its state policy.

The European Commission’s report on Macedonia’s progress will be fair and based on facts and will cover the country’s achievements made in the past 12

Serbian President Boris Tadić will address the UN General Assembly on Friday, within the General Debate that began on September 21. The Serbian president will hold a series of bilateral meetings with officials from around the world on the sidelines of the session. 

The Moldovan government has welcomed an agreement reached in Moscow today on the resumption, after five years, of official talks on resolving the conflict over the disputed Transdniester region. Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Eugen Carpov, who headed Moldova’s delegation

The plan which was unanimously adopted at the UN Security Council session in 2008 contains six points that refer to the dialogue with Belgrade. The six points refer to police, customs, judiciary, transportation

Mission to close down by the middle of next year; functions to be handed to EU delegation in Sarajevo. The member states of the European Union have decided to close its 300-member police mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM) by the middle of next year. The decision, which has not …

Serbia’s PM Mirko Cvetković said Wednesday that EU membership was Serbia’s strategic goal and that the government had been working hard on it for years. He added that it would guarantee a better future for all its citizens. Speaking at a business conference entitled Euro Vision, Cvetković