Eurasia Press & News
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Kosovo on November 3 and 4. He is scheduled to hold talks with Kosovo’s acting president Jakup Krasniqi and meet with the Turkish community in the towns of Prizren and Mamusa.
Read More »Macedonian PM meets with Ukraine’s president
Macedonia and Ukraine have perfect political relations, which should be also backed by bilateral economic cooperation, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said after meeting Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev. Gruevski, who is on an official two-day visit, said further
Read More »UN Security Council to hold Kosovo session on Nov. 12
The UN Security Council will hold session on Kosovo on November 12. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed in his latest quarterly report to the UN Security Council the announcement that the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština will begin soon, and expressed readiness
Read More »Georgian FM: Greece ready to assist Georgia in European and Euro-Atlantic integration process
Greece is ready to assist Georgia in the European and Euro-Atlantic integration process. Greek officials made the statement during recent Georgian-Greek political consultations in Tbilisi, the Georgian Foreign Ministry told Trend. The consultations were attended by the heads of the two countries’ foreign ministry departments. Within the talks, head of …
Read More »Bulgarian Foreign Minister: Athens attack doesn’t target Bulgaria
The bomb mail received Tuesday in the Bulgarian embassy in Athens has not specifically targeted Bulgaria, according to a statement by Bulgarian foreign affairs minister Nikolay Mladenov. Speaking for the Bulgarian National Radio, Mladenov said that in view of the series of a total of 10 bomb mailings sent out …
Read More »BiH’s Izetbegovic offers personal apology for wartime victims
Newly elected member of the tripartite presidency Bakir Izetbegovic on Monday (November 1st) apologised for every innocent victim killed by the BiH army. Speaking to Serbian radio B92, Izetbegovic said all innocent victims are equal and offered his personal apology, but at the same time
Read More »Serbia likely to receive EU candidate status in 13 months
EU candidate status could be granted in December 2011, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic told a press conference after a meeting of the EU integration committee on Monday (November 1st). He added that on November 24th, the European Commission (EC) will send a form containing between 4,000 and 5,000 …
Read More »Verdicts of suspected Mladic supporters to be announced today
A court in Belgrade is due to announce on Thursday (November 4th) the verdicts of ten people charged with supporting war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic and helping him evade justice between 2002 and 2006 by sheltering him in their Belgrade apartments. The prosecution and the defence made their final statements
Read More »UN Secretary-General concerned about situation in northern Kosovo
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia to start as soon as possible, media in Pristina reported on Tuesday (November 2nd), quoting his regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo that was distributed to UN Security Council members at the weekend. The general situation is stable, …
Read More »United States stresses support for BiH’s territorial integrity
Rebuffing comments from a former US ambassador, the US Embassy in Sarajevo reiterated Washington’s support for a united Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Our position … remains unchanged. The US fully supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of BiH,” the embassy said. The Office of the High Representative issued a similar statement, …
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