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UNMIK is ready to fully support a probe into the Kosovo organ trafficking, the latest report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says. It also expresses the expectation that progress will soon be made towards opening the Belgrade-Priština dialogue which has not yet begun due to the toppling of the …

Bosnian police arrested Sasa Baricanin on Tuesday on suspicion of war crimes committed against the non-Serb population in Sarajevo during the country’s 1992-95 war. Baricanin was arrested in Pale, some 25 kilometers southeast of Sarajevo, on an order from the State Prosecutor’s Office.

Albanian opposition leader Edi Rama on Tuesday called for fresh anti-government protests in the capital Tirana on Friday for the third week in succession. Rama said the marches in the Tirana and at least four other cities were to demonstrate “peaceful resistance” to the government. Rama on Tuesday reiterated a …

Romania and Bulgaria should enter the Schengen Agreeement together, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has stated. “Romania can not enter Schengen without Bulgaria, since the two states are parts of one and the same

Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković thinks that his country will become a candidate for EU membership by the end of this year. He said on Monday during his visit in Brussels that it was necessary

The mayor of the Kosovan municipality of Đeneral Jankovic Rufki Suma and the municipal councilors want to sue Serbia for war crimes committed on the territory of the municipality in 1999. The initiative was welcomed by experts in human rights in Kosovo. According to the executive director of the Council …

Macedonian Parliament will hold a debate on the A1 television channel situation at an extraordinary sitting. The sitting will be held without the MPs from the opposition who for several days now are boycotting the parliament, with the exception of the Liberal Democracy Party. Chairman of the Parliament Traiko Veljanovski …

Members of BiH’s tripartite presidency kick off a two-day visit in Zagreb on Monday (January 31st). Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic will meet with President Ivo Josipovic, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic. This is the first visit to Croatia by BiH presidency members in …

Republic of Srpska (RS) Constitutional Court is to decide on Monday whether national interest of Bosniaks (Muslims) were threatened. The case relates the election of Aleksandar Džombić as the prime minister of the Bosnian Serb entity. 

The European Union is engaged in talks to reduce Greece’s debt as international monitors fly into Athens this week. There is growing concern that Greece will be unable to end its worst crisis in decades, without a sovereign default. Plans to buy back Greek debt at a discount – a …