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Georgia has welcomed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to investigate its 2008 war with Russia. The Georgian government was willing to provide all materials required for the court, Hatuna Josava, a director from the Justice Ministry, said Saturday. Earlier reports said that, at the request of Russia, the Hague-based …

Bosnian Serb leaders voiced their intention to hold a census in the Serb dominated part of the country Republika Srpska following last week’s failure by the country’s central parliament to pass a law that would open the way for a nationwide census in 2011. “Republika Srpska’s government has submitted a …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called on farmers to lift blockages, noting that in the hard conditions of the financial crisis the authorities in the country cannot grant them financial support. The protesting Greek farmers have been blocking the Bulgarian-Greek border

Bulgarian Prime Minister pays an official visit to Germany at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as of January 24-January 26, 2010, the government press office announced. PM’s agenda envisages meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the President of the Bundestag Dr Norbert Lammert and

Montenegrin PM Milo Đukanović thinks that a whole Bosnia-Herzegovina does not have an alternative. He said in Washington on Thursday while giving a lecture at a university that “any secession idea could have tragic consequences to stability of the region”. “Bosnia-Herzegovina must survive and we think that all efforts leading …

European Union should encourage solving open issues between Western Balkan countries, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said last night in Paris. He pointed the recent border issue settlement between Slovenia and Croatia. The two countries made a great step forward by signing the arbitrage agreement.

File No. 1175 of the Moldovan Parliament’s archive that contains Law No. 691-XII on Moldova’s Declaration of Independence, the copy of the text of the Declaration of Independence, the proceedings of the extraordinary session of the Parliament of Moldova and other documents that disappeared after the April events was recovered. …

The chiefs of Serbian and Romanian MoD military cooperation departments signed on Thursday in Belgrade a plan for bilateral military cooperation for 2010. The plan, signed by Milorad Perić and Alexandru Cotoara-Nicolae, envisages exchange of high-level visits, joint exercises and exchange of experiences in the defense system reform.

A delegation of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) visited the Serbian parliament on Thursday. They conferred with representatives of the ruling majority and the opposition in the on Serbia’s progress in fulfilling its commitments stemming from Council of Europe membership, reports said.

The former head of state Vladimir Voronin asked the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) to put off the questioning meeting set for January 22. He filed an application to the PG on January 21. According to the PG’s press service, in his application Voronin says he has a tight schedule, including …