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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission will arrive in Belgrade on Thursday, it has been announced. They will immediately begin technical talks with the Serbian government on the sixth revision of the stand-by arrangement between the IMF and Serbia, IMF Resident Representative in Serbia Bogdan Lissovolik said.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded today a training course for police investigators on war crime cases. Twenty-five police inspectors and two prosecutors from the District Prosecutor’s Office of Banja Luka and Doboj, as well as two investigators from the BiH Prosecutor’s Office in Sarajevo took part in …

The European Union will support Bosnia in its bid to join the bloc as a united country that would be able to speak with one voice, visiting EU President Herman Van Rompuy said here on Wednesday. He was speaking after

Albanian government’s initiative to start reforming the election system was the main topic discussed on Tuesday (October 19th) between Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and OSCE head Eugen Wollfarth, who says the

BiH Prosecutors pressed charges on Tuesday (October 19th) against former Bosnian Muslim armed forces officer Osman Sego for war crimes committed against civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. According to the charges, Sego was involved in crimes against Croatian civilians between July 1993 and March 1994 in Bugojno. He was …

Kosovo’s Parliament Speaker and Acting President  Jakup Krasniqi said on Tuesday (October 19th) that resolving the current institutional crisis depends on the will of the parties in parliament. After a regular meeting of

The European Parliament Rapporteur on visa liberalisation for the Western Balkans, Tanja Fajon, arrived in Kosovo on Wednesday (October 20th) for meetings with officials in charge of EU integration and visa

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić is visiting Slovenia and he will speak to his hosts about Serbia’s EU integration and the planned Belgrade-Priština dialogue on Kosovo. The Serbian FM said after the meeting with his Slovenian

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov will leave on Wednesday on a two-day visit to Serbia. Ivanov is to meet with Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic. The two will discuss the bilateral cooperation between the two countries, the development of the economic ties and the European integration of the region.

The Bulgarian Parliament has cited legislation inadequacies as a reason not to delay the scheduling of a referendum on Turkey’s EU accession. After debates on the referendum petition tabled by the nationalist party