MOSCOW The Presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow on July 18 to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Wednesday.
Read More »US Navy arrives in Georgia for exercises
The American guided missile destroyer USS Stout has dropped anchor off the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi to take part naval training exercises with Georgian coastguards and Turkish ships.
Read More »GERB’s memorandum to right-wing parties
The Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) sees the formula of its government as a political project for the European development of Bulgaria which can be supported by the rest of the parties in the 41st Parliament in the name of Bulgaria’s national interests and in accordance with …
Read More »Bulgaria needs pro-European reformist majority: MEP Nadezhda Mihaylova
SOFIA In times of crisis and when Europe’s trust in Bulgaria has been lost, the country needs pro-European reformist majority and not a one that legitimates the Euroskepticism. These are the words of Nadezhda Mihaylova, MEP of the Blue Coalition and former foreign minister of Bulgaria, said in Strasbourg, her …
Read More »Boiko Borissov to rule alone
Boiko Borissov’s party will govern Bulgaria without bringing other parties into a ruling coalition, it emerged after the first round of talks between the country’s right-wing parties on July 15 2009. Borissov’s party, the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (abbreviated as GERB in Bulgarian), which won the biggest …
Read More »Bosniak leader warns of “clashes”
BANJA LUKA Clashes are possible in Bosnia if the work of state institutions is blocked and the Office of the High Representative closes, warns SDA leader Sulejman Tihić. In an interview with Banja Luka daily Nezavisne Novine, Tihić said that he did not know why his earlier statements had caused …
Read More »“Blast in south classic act of terrorism”
PREŠEVO Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that the explosion in Preševo where a woman and an ethnic Albanian child were injured was “a classic act of terrorism.“ One person has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling arms from Kosovo.
Read More »Ethnic Albanian leaders react to attack
PREŠEVO Ethnic Albanian party leaders in the south of the country on Tuesday condemned an incident when a bomb exploded in Preševo.Two people were hurt overnight in that town in the region close to the administrative line with Kosovo.
Read More »Russia Hopes To Keep Naval Base In Ukraine
Russia indicated on Tuesday it hoped to keep Ukraine’s city of Sevastopol as the main base for its Black Sea Fleet after the expiry of its lease with Ukraine in 2017, although it is building a new base. “We are not setting such a target — to depart from Sevastopol …
Read More »Critics Slam EU Plan To Let In Serbs, Not Bosnians
A plan to end EU visa requirements for Serbians but not for Bosnian Muslims who suffered at Serb hands in the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia will deepen ethnic divisions in the Balkans, critics said on Tuesday. The Green group in the European Parliament termed the planned announcement, days after the …
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