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Acting President Jakup Krasniqi said on Monday (October 4th) that there will be no early general elections this year. Just last week, the ruling coalition partners — the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive on official visit to Belgrade on October 12-13. In the frames of the visit Clinton will meet with Serbian President Boris Tadic, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, Minister of Defense Dragan Sutanovac. Talks will be dedicated to the Belgrade-Pristina …

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission made the following statement: “According to the preliminary assessment of OSCE/ODIHR and their International Election Observation Mission for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the elections on 3 October proceeded …

Slovak FM Mikulas Dzurinda stressed at the meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković that the Slovak government will not consider recognizing Kosovo. He also said that Bratislava supports the initiation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština.

Serbian President Boris Tadić says Serbia can join the EU in 2016 at the earliest, but that it could come a lot later if reforms in are carried out at a slow pace. “The earliest possible date of Serbia’s EU accession is 2016, on condition that negotiations start late in 2011 …

The United States congratulated late on Monday Bosnia and Herzegovina on their general elections and urged the leaders to find a common ground to form the next government.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said Slovenian-Croatian model should be applied in an effort to unblock Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community.

Zeljko Komsic and Nebojsa Radmanovic are likely to win re-election as BiH tripartite presidency members, the State Election Commission (CEC) announced in the early hours of Monday (October 4th) based on early results. Bakir

Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will meet Tuesday with US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton in Washington, DC. The main topics in the discussion will be investments, energy projects and cooperation in the security sphere.

Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on Sunday (October 3rd) that Bulgaria will meet the criteria to enter the Schengen zone by March 31st 2011. He made this statement upon