Balkans

High Representative of the international community in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko will be in Belgrade for a working visit today. Inzko will meet with Serbian President Boris Tadić, Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić and Minister for Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, his office (OHR) announced. He is also scheduled to …

Deputy Russian FM Vladimir Titov will chair a meeting of Russian ambassadors appointed to Southeast European countries in Belgrade today. The meeting participants and Titov will exchange views on the future of the development of the Russian-Serbian relations and cooperation at the regional and European level. Beside the Russian ambassador …

Chief Prosecutor of the tribunal for war crimes in the Hague Serge Bramerz will present at the UN Security Council the six-month report for Serbia. In his report Bramerz has welcomed the Serbian cooperation with the Tribunal but meanwhile he had made reproaches about the efficiency. According to Bramerz the …

Leaders of the countries which emerged from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia have committed in Bosnia on Monday night to embark on a path of reconciliation.

Bosnian forensic experts have begun exhuming a mass grave in the east of the country believed to hide the remains of Bosniak civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The remains of eight people were discovered yesterday on a site in Kaldrmica village, near Srebrenica. The preliminary examination of the …

UNMIK chief Lamberto Zannier has been appointed the key official to report to the UN on future dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade. Zannier has informed EU Foreign Policy Chief

Bosnia’s multi-ethnic moderate party was the big winner in October elections, but the lack of viable coalition partners has left the playing field open once again to ethno-nationalist parties who are bent on maintaining politically opportunistic instability. By Anes Alic for ISN Insights. Three ethno-nationalist parties and one moderate, multi-ethnic …

Initial talks between Belgrade and Pristina could start by the end of this year, Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said in an interview with Beta on Saturday (December 4th). He

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Friday (December 3rd) that talks on Cyprus’ reunification could “founder fatally” unless a substantive agreement is reached within the next few months. “I fear a critical window of opportunity is rapidly closing,” Ban said

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki sent a letter to EU counterparts Saturday (December 4th) seeking their support at this month’s Council of Europe meeting for a date to start accession talks with Macedonia. In