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Relations between Macedonia and Croatia are excellent with no pending issues, Prime Ministers Nikola Gruevski and Jadranka Kosor concluded at the meeting held today. Croatia’s Prime Minister is on a visit to Macedonia. The two Prime Ministers stated that Macedonia and Croatia are both following their way of EU integration. …

Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo’s local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ”save” Kosovo by doing so. Bogdanovic said that: ”Those Serbs who would take part in the elections should ask themselves whether they are …

Former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov’s Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, DSB, has clubbed together with the far-right Ataka party, threatening to call for impeachment of Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov. Kosovo, whose party is part of the coalition supporting the current right-of-centre GERB party, said his party would back an impeachment procedure …

Sonja Biserko said that she believes that Radovan Karadzic’s tactic to prolong his trial is part of a strategy from Belgrade to obstruct the War Crime Tribunal’s work. Sonja Biserko, director of the Helsinki Committee in Serbia, believes that the work of the Hague Tribunal has had almost no effect …

Postizanje kompromisa između domaćih političara jedini je način za napredak BiH ka Evropskoj uniji i NATO-u, kazali su juče Čarls Ingliš i Bose Hedberg, američki i švedski ambasador u našoj zemlji. Ingliš je naglasio da Sjedinjene Američke Države i EU mogu i žele pomoći da BiH ispuni potrebne preduslove za …

OSCE mission chief in Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos said that the mission will work on strengthening the institutions, rule of law, regional cooperation. The Greek diplomat who took over as mission chief in September told daily Politika that none of these questions are more important than the other, because “all democratic …

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton told historian Taylor Branch that Europe did not do everything it could have done to help Bosnia-Herzegovina. He said that Bosnia did not receive this help because of the European fear of a Muslim state on its territory.

Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marović said that Serbia should be Montenegro’s closest ally in the region. “We expect Serbia to have the same opinion of Montenegro,” Marović said .

The United States Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon said he thinks the Athens-Skopje “name” row can be resolved soon, and in the interest of both sides. “It is true that the agreement is possible and it is important to be resolved,” Gordon said to the Voice of America, Macedonian …

New Zealand has become the 63rd country to recognisne Kosovo’s independence. Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni confirmed on Monday that he had received a diplomatic note confirming recognition from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand.