Balkans

The heads of states of Western Balkan countries have called for closer regional cooperation at their annual summit which was not attended by the Serbian president.This year’s regional summit on cooperation was held in Montenegro’s coastal town of Budva on Wednesday and was attended by the president of Montenegro, Filip …

Kosovo must address war time sexual violence in the law dealing with the rights of war victims, a round table organized by UN Women in Pristina concluded.Members of the round table, which discussed “The status and state of survivors of sexual violence during conflict,” called for the prosecution of all …

The opposition Nasa Stranka party has complained to the State Statistics Agency about the census questions concerning nationality or ethnicity, religion and mother tongue.Nasa Stranka [Our Party] a small left-wing party, has complained to Bosnia’s State Statistics Agency, urging it to change the question in the April 2013 headcount regarding …

Serbia’s President has rewarded sympathetic international public figures with special merits as part of celebrations ahead of Serbia’s Statehood Day on February 15.President Nikolic has bestowed the Sretenje medal, second class, on the US lawyer Ramsey Clark for his public and humanitarian work, according to the latest Official Gazette. Clark …

Croatia must show the EU in January that it is moving towards fulfilling the final criteria for membership in the bloc, an official said following meetings on Wednesday.Zagreb is expected to submit a report by the end of January on its progress towards completing the 10 tasks highlighted in the …

Trust is key in the relationship between NATO and its partners, Bulgaria’s foreign minister said in an address to the alliance on Wednesday.”The best way to achieve this is through all partners being involved in the decision-making process,” Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said at a meeting of NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Partnership …

Burning Macedonian flags in Albania, and pelting the Macedonian Prime Minister’s car, were unacceptable incidents, the Presidents of Macedonia and Albania agreed in Montenegro.Macedonia’s President, Gjorge Ivanov, and his Albanian counterpart, Bujar Nishani, met on Wednesday at the sidelines of the fourth regional presidential summit under the working title, “Cooperation …

Prime Minister expresses sorrow over the shock death of the ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, who was reported to have killed himself in Brussels on Tuesday.Serbia’s Prime Minister on Wednesday expressed his sorrow about the death of the country’s NATO ambassador who committed suicide in Brussels on Tuesday. Media reports …

The Hague Tribunal verdict in the case of the former intelligence chief of the Bosnian Serb army, Zdravko Tolimir, will be delivered on December 12.The International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has announced that the verdict in the case of Zdravko Tolimir, a former high ranking official of …

The Council of Ministers has asked the Bosnian Parliament to adopt a new draft Law on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in order to solve their most pressing needs.The draft law – which was done by the Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees – ensures that all refugees …