Balkans

Albanian Parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli is on a visit to Skopje. During her visit Topalli will meet with Macedonian counterpart Trajko Veljanovski and will address to the members of the parliament.

Serbian President Boris Tadic will resign so that Serbia will hold joint parliamentary and presidential elections on May 6. “I decided to shorten my mandate to allow presidential elections to be held on May 6. I will be a candidate,” Tadic said. Serbia announced last month that parliamentary, regional and …

Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis is to visit Armenia on 3 and 4 April at the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Eduard Nalbandyan. The Cypriot minister will meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Armenian Patriarch Karekin II.

Bulgaria will close its diplomatic office in Bonn and will open one in Frankfurt, Germany. This decision will enable Bulgaria to have a more dynamic economic

Germany and UK urged Bosnia on Tuesday to make important progress towards EU and NATO membership. “2012 can be the year when Bosnia-Hercegovina makes decisive strides towards both membership of the EU and NATO,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his British counterpart William Hague said, according to the Bosnian …

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received yesterday the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov. The two stressed that the friendly relation between the Armenia and Bulgaria represent a good reason for improvement and development of cooperation in different fields like culture, education, high technologies, energy, tourism, agriculture and others, in which, according to …

Bosnia will mark on Friday 20 years since the 1992 war, a war that has left deeply divided the country’s Muslims, Serbs and Croats. War started on April 6, 1992, the same date when Bosnia was recognized as an independent country. 

The UN envoy in the Greek-Macedonian name issue, Matthew Nimetz, said he is optimistic for the name dispute between Skopje and Athens and he believes that the two sides can overcome their differences with consistency and real dialog. He said, however, that each side should take into account the interests …

Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said on Sunday after a joint conference with his Bulgarian counterpart that Georgia and Bulgaria have the same geopolitical challenges – relationship with Russia. “Borisov himself told me that recently he had to suspend two projects funded by Russia in Bulgaria – the construction of …

During a two-day forum on 28-29 March Greece, Israel and Cyprus enhanced collaboration on energy investments for exploiting natural gas reserves in southeastern Mediterranean Sea. It is expected that a trilateral memorandum in the fields of electricity and natural gas to be signed soon. “The axis of Greece, Cyprus and …