Balkans

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said Wednesday in Banja Luka that Serbia will continue to support Bosnia’s Serb republic (RS) and its leadership. Jeremić was in Banja Luka to congratulate the newly elected RS President Milorad Dodik. Jeremić and Dodik discussed the situation in the region, RS and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbia supports …

Serbian President Boris Tadic will visit the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Thursday (November 4th), the first Serbian head of state to do so. Tadic and his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic will pay their respects to victims of the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. They will first lay wreaths at …

The Central Election Commission (CIK) confirmed at a session Tuesday (November 2nd) the results from the October 3rd general elections. At a state level, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which emerged as the biggest Bosniak party in the vote, will get eight seats in the House of Representatives, while the …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Kosovo on November 3 and 4. He is scheduled to hold talks with Kosovo’s acting president Jakup Krasniqi and meet with the Turkish community in the towns of Prizren and Mamusa.

Macedonia and Ukraine have perfect political relations, which should be also backed by bilateral economic cooperation, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said after meeting Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev. Gruevski, who is on an official two-day visit, said further

The UN Security Council will hold session on Kosovo on November 12. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed in his latest quarterly report to the UN Security Council the announcement that the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština will begin soon, and expressed readiness

Greece is ready to assist Georgia in the European and Euro-Atlantic integration process. Greek officials made the statement during recent Georgian-Greek political consultations in Tbilisi, the Georgian Foreign Ministry told Trend. The consultations were attended by the heads of the two countries’ foreign ministry departments. Within the talks, head of …

Information available to experts on international terrorism indicate that Bosnia Herzegovina is presently one of the epicentres of extremist Islamic circles in Europe, as it represents a hub for potential Islamic terrorists – the so called “white” or “European” Al-Qaeda . Money from Islamic countries that is laundered through “humanitarian” …

The bomb mail received Tuesday in the Bulgarian embassy in Athens has not specifically targeted Bulgaria, according to a statement by Bulgarian foreign affairs minister Nikolay Mladenov. Speaking for the Bulgarian National Radio, Mladenov said that in view of the series of a total of 10 bomb mailings sent out …

Newly elected member of the tripartite presidency Bakir Izetbegovic on Monday (November 1st) apologised for every innocent victim killed by the BiH army. Speaking to Serbian radio B92, Izetbegovic said all innocent victims are equal and offered his personal apology, but at the same time