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SOFIA –  Bulgaria has shown self-confidence to nominate a candidate for NATO Secretary General and it deserves this self-confidence, Solomon Passy, chairman of the parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and MP from the National Movement for Stability and Progress /NMSP/, said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television.

SOFIA –  The Political Council of the governing three-party coalition is to hold a meeting on Friday, the press center of the Council of Ministers announced. The leaders of Bulgarian Socialist Party, National Movement for Stability and Progress and Movement for Rights and Freedoms Sergey Stanishev, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Ahmed …

SOFIA: Bulgaria named former foreign minister Solomon Passy as its official candidate for the post of the head of NATO, the government announced yesterday. “The government took a decision to officially support the candidature of Solomon Passy for NATO Secretary General,” Sofia said in a statement. NATO’s current head, Dutchman …

BRUSSELS: Romania has taken some “backward steps” in fighting corruption despite European Union criticism, while fellow EU newcomer Bulgaria has made a number of positive moves, the bloc’s executive arm said yesterday. In interim reports on each, the European Commission told both countries, the poorest members of the bloc, that …

Skopje, February 12 (MIA) – Chairman of the State Election Commission (SEC) Aleksandar Novakoski had separate meetings Thursday with the Head of OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission, Peter Eicher, and Swedish Ambassador to Macedonia Lars Peter Freden. The meetings focused on SEC’s preparations for the forthcoming presidential, local elections in the …

Brussels, February 12  – Macedonia’s commitment and determination to remain loyal to its objective and pledge for full-fledged integration to NATO is the main message that was conveyed by country’s Foreign and Defense Ministers – Antonio Milososki and Zoran Konjanovski – to Alliance’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at …

Berlin, February 12  – Macedonia has great opportunity to join NATO, the European Union and get free visa regime by yearend, but the realization of these objectives depend substantially on the organization of forthcoming elections, German Foreign Office Minister of State Guenther Gloser said Thursday in Berlin after meeting Vice-Premier …

12 February 2009 – A senior United Nations official will meet with Serbian ministers later this month for wide-ranging discussions on Kosovo, which proclaimed its independence a year ago in a move that Serbia rejects. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for Kosovo Lamberto Zannier received an invitation to meet with …

Belgrade, 12 Feb.  – European Union enlargement commissioner Ollie Rehn on Thursday urged Belgrade to arrest and hand over the two remaining fugitive suspects charged by the United Nations’ Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The arrest and handover for trial at the Hague of former Bosnian Serb …

Germany’s mobile operator T-Mobile and its landline operator T-Home planned on Thursday to invest 180million euros (about 231 million U.S. dollars) in Macedonia in the next three years. Macedonia Telecom’s CEO Nikolai Beckers said T-Home’s investment plan has already been drawn up, while T-Mobile’s plan has entered the final stage …