BiH All principal executive and legislative officials from the Serb-dominated Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska on Tuesday in the strongest terms condemned the latest decisions imposed by country’s High Representative Valentin Inzko. “The latest decision of the High Representative represents another step towards the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” media …
Read More »Albanians Outraged Over Macedonia Encyclopaedia
ALBANIA Albanian academics in Tirana have slammed a new encyclopaedia published by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences, MANU, which describes the country’s ethnic-Albanians as “settlers”. Adding his voice to a growing number of academics, politicians and NGO members who have sharply critcised the encyclopaedia, the Deputy Head of the Albanian …
Read More »Macedonia Sticks to Dual Name Solution
MACEDONIA Macedonia has never abandoned the so-called double name formula as a solution to its unresolved name, there have been only different interpretations of that position, the country’s President Georgi Ivanov said Tuesday in New York. Ivanov said this after holding meetings in New York with NATO Secretary General Anders …
Read More »Thaci: Macedonian Encyclopaedia Close to Serbian
KOSOVO Kosovo’s premier Hashim Thaci has added his voice to the controversy surrounding the publication of the encyclopaedia by the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Science, MANU, saying that it is similar to the encyclopaedia published by the Serbian Academy of Arts and Science. Thaci said the facts presented in …
Read More »Tadic Calls for Fresh Kosovo Talks
SERBIA Serbian President Boris Tadic said Belgrade will call for fresh talks with Pristina on Kosovo’s status once his government receives and advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, ICJ. Addressing students and professors at Columbia University in New York, Tadic said that for his part, there cannot be …
Read More »“No shortcuts to Europe”
Chairman of the National Council for Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajić says that Ratko Mladić must be arrested for Serbia to progress towards the EU. He said that there should be no illusions about Holland allowing the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) to be unfrozen before Mladić is extradited to The …
Read More »Verdict in Bytyqi case due on Tuesday
The war crimes chamber in Belgrade is expected to deliver its verdict today in the case of 2 suspected accomplices in the murder of the Bytyqi brothers in 1999. The trial of Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, former members of the Serbian Interior Ministry, began on November 13, 2006. They …
Read More »Georgian President Continues Official Meetings In United States
GEORGIA President Mikheil Saakashvili continues official meetings in the United States.Saakashvili met with the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton in New York on September 21. Philip Gordon, the US assistant secretary for European affairs, has introduced the details of the meeting between the Georgian president and the US State Secretary …
Read More »Bulgaria upholds 2011 deadline for entering Schengen
BULGARIA The deadline for Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen zone remains 2011, according to a statement from Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov delivered in Brussels on September 21 2009, the Bulgarian National Radio, the BNR has reported. “We are working with this ambition in mind and so I hope we …
Read More »Bulgaria was more independent 100 years ago: minister
BULGARIA 100 years ago Bulgaria was more independent country than it is today, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov said. Minister Tsvetanov is in the town of Veliko Tarnovo the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the Bulgaria’s Independence. In his words today in the time …
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