Bulgaria and Romania cooperated well in their efforts to enter the Schengen Area, the countries’ interior ministers said days after their bids to join the zone were blocked by the EU. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov and his Romanian counterpart Traian Constantin Igas met in Sofia on Tuesday for a …

A meeting was held at the level of working groups of Azerbaijan and Georgia in the first half of June on the issue of delimitation the state border between the two countries, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Geodesy and Cartography said.

Strong, successful and independent Georgia is part of the national security of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said after his meeting with the Chairman of the Georgian Parliament on Monday.

Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič met with Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić and said his country supported Serbia’s entry into the European Union “without reservation”. He also stated that Bratislava’s stance not to recognize Kosovo remained unchanged.

Bosnia’s State Presidency members are due to announce their candidate for prime minister on Tuesday, but it’s unlikely that he will be approved by parliament. Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the country’s tripartite presidency, said on Monday that he will support Dr. Slavo Kukic for prime minister, as Bosnia …

Mayor of Yerevan Karen Karapetyan and Mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava attended the opening ceremony of an Armenian cultural center in the Georgian capital. The two stressed the importance of maintenance of cultural ties and cooperation between the neighbor countries. His Holiness Karekin II Surpreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All …

Serbian President and leader of the Ruling Democrats Boris Tadić stated on Sunday that the start of EU accession talks in 2012 would be a historic event. According to him address to the party’s main board on Sunday in Belgrade, this would also be the country’s greatest achievement.

A NATO conference in Belgrade this week will bring together scores of defence officials from across the globe, but it will not change Serbia’s neutral stance towards the alliance, the government says. 

A major conference on the Western Balkans has gotten underway in Sarajevo, focusing on efforts to move the region forward. The conference “The Western Balkans: Progress, Stagnation or Regression” opened on Sunday, organised by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University and the Bosnian-American

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Belgrade this afternoon and started her visit to Serbia. Clinton arrived here from Bosnia, for meetings with top Serbian state officials, and first met with Serbian President Boris Tadić.