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The regular quarterly report by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, will be presented to the UN Security Council in New York today. In the latest report, UN Secretary General Ban

Macedonian Minister of Defence Fatmir Bisami will arrive on an official visit to Bulgaria. On Thursday Besimi will meet with Bulgarian counterpart Anyu Angelov, as well as with high-ranking officials with the defence staff of the Bulgarian armed forces. The accent of the talks will be put on the bilateral …

A Bulgarian parliamentary delegation, headed by National Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva, will make an official visit to Albania. The Bulgarian delegation includes Ekaterina Mihaylova, Deputy Chairperson of the National Assembly and Chairperson

A two-day conference on integration and contribution of Southeast European states to a common security and defense policy of the EU will be opened Thursday. The conference, which is part of the project of security

Montenegro should start membership EU negotiations next month, the Enlargement Commissioner said, promising that the EU will continue to accept new members. “The European Union continues to grow. Croatia

Bulgaria’s Ambassador in Sarajevo Angel Angelov presented his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic, on Tuesday.

The second round of presidential elections in Serbia has started a day after Democrat leader Boris Tadic won the largest percentage of votes in the first round, on 26.7 per cent, closely followed by the Progressives’ Tomislav Nikolic who won 25.5 per cent. Tadic and Nikolic therefore will go into …

European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule, during a visit to Skopje, has expressed his satisfaction with the dialog between Macedonia and the EU and with the progress achieved. The Commission said the European program is the core of the public debate, despite the existence of lots of challenging issues.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says that vandalism, threats and attacks on facilities of the Serbian Orthodox Church are on the rise in Kosovo, which could make difficult the on-progress Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. In his latest report, the UN chief says the number of crimes against minority

Bosnia will organize local elections on October 7 in 139 municipalities, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on Monday in Sarajevo. CEC President, Branko Peric, said that 3,213,562 citizens will be eligible for vote, 190,000 more than the last local election in 2008. “Some of the financing will come from …