Balkan News

As Serbia delays the start of the fifth round of Belgrade-Pristina talks, the Kosovo side suggests that Belgrade just doesn’t want to sign any firm agreements. The fifth round of Belgrade-Pristina talks scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday has been postponed as a result of procedural issues, Milivoje Mihajlovic, head of …

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 …

Participants of the Strategic Military Partner Conference in Belgrade will adopt conclusions and wrap up the conference on Wednesday. Representatives of 60 countries, including members of NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić. Gordon started his tour of the Balkans in Bosnia-Herzegovina and will also visit Priština, and then Croatia by June 17.

Testifying at Radovan Karadzic’s trial, an expert witness says that Bosnian Serb authorities organised the removal of the non-Serb population from areas under their control. Dorothea Hanson, an expert witness who drafted a report on the establishment and functioning of Serb crisis committees and wartime presidencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, …

Bosnia’s central presidency on Tuesday finally nominated a prime minister to end an eight-month political impasse but warned that the crisis would be exacerbated if the candidate is rejected. The chairman of the rotating three-man presidency, Bosnian Serb Nebojsa Radmanovic, announced the nomination of Bosnian Croat Slavo Kukic but added …

A NATO meeting aimed at international military cooperation opened in Belgrade Tuesday where lingering bitterness over the 1999 bombing campaign of the city sparked protests against the event.

The UN Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus for another six months and urged the leadership of the Greek and Turkish Cyprus to accelerate the pace of talks aimed at reunifying the long-divided island.

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 …