Eurasia Press & News
Representatives of the police at EULEX will discuss the principles for applying of the technical agreement on cooperation with representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Interior today in Belgrade, Serbian media inform. The technical agreement will make the regional cooperation in the fight against crime more efficient and will contribute …
Read More »Montenegro will not join WTO this year
Montenegro will not become member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) this year, the Montenegrin online edition pcnen.com reports. That became clear after the failure of the third stage of the bilateral talks with Ukraine in relation to the other controversial issues in this process.
Read More »Athens, Skopje Deal Achievable
Athens and Skopje could reach a deal on their name row if they focus solely on finding a compromise appelation, Macedonia’s President Georgi Ivanov says. “Various non negotiable issues, such as Macedonian identity and language […] were included in the past talks,” Ivanov told the chief editors of German media …
Read More »Russia to Support Serbia at ICJ
Russia will defiantly support Serbia at the International Court of Justice’s hearing on Kosovo’s declaration of independence, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. Serbia filed a case against Kosovo after its unilateral declaration of independence in February 2008. The International Court of Justice hearing, which is to probe the legitimacy, or …
Read More »EC Urged to Expand Visa-Free Scheme
The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has urged the European Commission, EC, to change its plan for visa-liberalisation in the Balkans. The committee asked the EC to tentatively add Albania and Bosnia to the White Schengen list, pending the fulfillment of benchmarks, and to urgently open talks on the visa …
Read More »IMF to Help Serbia, if it Reforms
The governor of the National Bank of Serbia, Radovan Jelasic, says that the IMF is ready to help Serbia, but “only if there is serious reform”. Following the conclusion of the annual IMF-World Bank meetings in Istanbul, the Serbian government has less than three weeks to decide on how to …
Read More »Albania and Serbia in Diplomatic Flirtation
Albania’s Foreign Minister Ilir Meta and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic, have agreed to strengthen cooperation between their two countries. The pair’s meeting came on the sidelines of a regional conference of the so-called Visegrad states in Budapest on Tuesday, and was followed by a joint press conference. While the …
Read More »Mufti: Religious rights threatened
Chief mufti of the Islamic Community in Serbia, Muamer Zukorlić, has told EP Rapporteur Jelko Kacin that the rights of Serbian Muslims are in danger. Zukorlić met with Kacin in Slovenia to gave him a detailed report on the state of religious rights in Serbia, especially the “unlawful behavior of …
Read More »NGO to release victim census for Kosovo
The Humanitarian Law Center will present to victims’ families the results of their census of dead and missing persons in Kosovo from January 1998 to Dec. 2000. According to the center, 13,321 individuals were killed, wounded or went missing during the armed conflicts in Kosovo in the period from January …
Read More »Milososki to attend meeting of Visegrad Group foreign ministers
Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki will take part today at the meeting of the Visegrad Group foreign ministers, upon invitation of his Hungarian counterpart Peter Balash. The meeting will be attended by the ministers of the Visegrad Group – Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, of the next two presiding …
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