Balkans

11 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbia will delay its answer to the International Monetary Fund over whether it will accept the financial body’s suggestion to suspend an increase in pensions until later this week, an official said on Tuesday.

11 November 2008 Skopje – Poland supports Macedonia’s efforts to integrate into Euro-Atlantic structures and will not change its position regarding the use of its constitutional name in bilateral relations, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski said late on Monday in Warsaw.

10 November 2008  Tirana – Eight people were arrested after the collapse of an apartment building in southern Albania left two women dead, a young girl missing and four others injured.

10 November 2008 Belgrade – Special Serbian police units came out empty handed after a raid on a factory in the western town of Valjevo in an apparent attempt to arrest General Ratko Mladic, sought for war crimes by the UN War Crimes Tribunal.

10 November 2008 Pristina – The Social Democratic Party of Kosovo, PSD, has criticised the government over the European Commission’s progress report on Kosovo.

10 November 2008 Sarajevo – Leaders of Bosnia’s three main political parties have reached an agreement over some of the most hotly contested issues concerning the future of the country, whose debate has poisoned the political atmosphere for the past two years.

10 November 2008 Belgrade - President Boris Tadic says Serbia will not agree to the deployment of EULEX before receiving solid guarantees that Belgrade`s conditions have been fully taken into account.

10 November 2008 Belgrade - The leader of the opposition Democratic party of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica says the government should face a no- confidence vote over the deployment of the EU’s Rule of Law Mission. EULEX, to Kosovo.

10 November 2008 Skopje – Macedonia must build a climate of trust and political responsibility if it wishes to join the European Union, the EU’s ambassador in the country said on Monday.

10 November 2008 Pristina – Representatives of the EU and UN have reached an agreement with Serbia’s government on the deployment of the EU’s Rule of Law Mission, EULEX, to the country, the Kosovo daily Zeri reported on Monday.