Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan will leave for a working visit to Berlin on March 13-14 at the invitation of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. He will meet with senior officials representing the

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today ended his official visit to Croatia. A guard of honour was lined up for the President of Azerbaijan at the Zagreb Airport.

A caretaker government has been appointed to run Bulgaria ahead of early general elections in May, the President announced.Marin Raykov will head Bulgaria’s caretaker government until the May 12 elections, the Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev announced on Tuesday. “The prime minister should be a good diplomat. He must be sensible …

Ahead of the next round of Kosovo talks, Serbia’s President says a deal on the Serb-run north is within reach now that Kosovo has agreed to certain ‘concessions’.Tomislav Nikolic said that a deal between Kosovo and Serbia over northern Kosovo was within sight, following talks in Brussels in which Kosovo …

Serbia’s Vice-Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, has dismissed reports that he wants opposition parties in the Serb-led entity to win the 2014 elections.Aleksandar Vucic, Vice-President of the Serbian government, has dismissed reports in the Sarajevo media that Belgrade plans to help the opposition in Republika Srpska win the next general election …

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic said that the country “has never been closer to getting a date for the start of EU accession talks”. After talks with foreign officials Mrkic said that “no one explicitly said that an agreement on Serb municipalities in Kosovo is the key precondition for that”.

Former Yugoslav Army commander Nebojsa Pavkovic and deputy prime minsiter Nikola Sainovic said at their Hague Tribunal appeal that they are not guilty of murder and persecution of Kosovo Albanians during the 1999 conflict. The two have been sentenced in 2009 to 22 years of jail each for deportation, murder …

Bulgaria’s president named on Tuesday career diplomat and former deputy foreign minister Marin Raykov as caretaker prime minister until early elections on May 12, following the resignation of the government last month. “My choice for prime minister is that of the current ambassador to France, Marin Raykov. He will also …

The seat of the Macedonian government will get its promised Baroque façade shortly after the March 24 local elections, officials have said.After several delays, the Macedonian government’s Procurements Bureau said it was about to choose from among four domestic construction firms that have offered to carry out the revamp. “We …

Berlin. European Parliament President Martin Schulz thinks that the debates over the inflow of poor immigrants from East Europe are exaggerated, Deutschlandradio reported. “There is no mass poverty migration from Romania or anywhere else,” Schulz remarked.