Balkans

UN Security Council members have called for restraint and urged the resumption of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presented his regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo at the UN Security

The UN Security Council will meet on Tuesday in New York to discuss Kosovo and review the latest quarterly report on submitted by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The focus of the meeting will be the crisis that started late July with the Kosovo Albanian

Serbia-Croatia relations are extremely important, and dialogue should not be tainted with tactless statements, Serbian President Boris Tadic said in Prague today. The Serbian President said in Prague on Monday that some recent statements by Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Serbian

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey told regional regions from Sarajevo they should create a new vision of the Balkans as a stable and prosperous region. Ahmet Davutoglu is on a several-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Austria’s Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said that he “would like to see Serbia receive the EU candidate status this fall”. If it were up to Austria, the answer would be ‘yes’, but it requires the agreement of all 27 EU member states, he said. Spindelegger said that he is also …

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu celebrates the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The foreign minister performed Eid prayer at Sarajevo’s Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque together with Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Tuesday.

Montenegro’s opposition is seriously considering walking out of the national parliament and local assemblies if an agreement is not reached on the status of the Serbian language in the country’s education system. The opposition is considering the boycott as a solution if agreement is not reached quickly on the status …

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik says the Serb-run entity will end the political logjam over Bosnia’s institutions immediately if there is sufficient compromise. Milorad Dodik said Bosnia-Herzegovina’s top decision-making body, the Council of Ministers, could be formed immediately if the Bosnian Serbs got the ministeries they sought.

The Turkish government has published a decree for the returning of all properties seized by the Turkish State in the last 75 years to minorities, their foundations or individual representatives.

The UN Security Council has postponed its meeting on Kosovo for Tuesday morning. The meeting was scheduled for Monday morning, but the problems caused by inclement weather in New York resulted in the postponement. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will present his quarterly report on Kosovo during the meeting, but the …