Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s special envoy submitted his message to the Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. At the meeting with the Kenyan president, Ahmadinejad’s aide Jalil Besharati raised the issue of Gaza and also elaborated on the Islamic Republic’s relations with African countries. Referring to the continued siege of …
Read More »Leaders’ Agreement Throws Bosnia Into Disarray
A surprising agreement by the leaders of Bosnia’s three strongest Serb, Croat and Bosniak parties over a new territorial and constitutional setup has brought more confusion and confrontation to the country’s political landscape. A joint statement by the three leaders – Milorad Dodik from the Bosnian Serb Union of Independent …
Read More »Jeremic Invites EU Officials To Serbia
Serbia’s foreign minister Vuk Jeremic invited European Union officials to come on a fact-finding mission and see first-hand Belgrade’s efforts on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Belgrade signed the key Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU last year, but the Netherlands is blocking its …
Read More »German ‘Abducted by CIA’ Sues Macedonia
Khaled El Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese origin who claims he was kidnapped by the CIA during his stay in Skopje in 2003, filed a second lawsuit against Macedonia on Monday. El Masri says that Macedonian police assisted the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency in kidnapping and transferring him …
Read More »Political Row “Freezes” Albania CoE Vote
Efforts by Tirana to dismiss an Albanian deputy in the assembly of the Council of Europe, CoE, have temporarily frozen Albania’s voting rights and created a political storm at home Albania’s parliament speaker, Jozefina Topalli, asked the CoE in a letter to replace Aleksander Biberaj, currently the deputy head of …
Read More »Bosnia Leaders Agree New Administrative Setup
Leaders of Bosnia’s three strongest ethnic parties on Monday agreed on what appears to be a new administrative and territorial setup for the troubled Balkan country. The agreement envisages the country divided in four rather than the current two regions set up at the end of the 1992-95 war between …
Read More »Macedonia VMRO Picks President Candidate
he VMRO DPMNE party of Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski picked Georgi Ivanov, a political science professor at Skopje University, as its candidate in the March 22 presidential election. Ivanov, a political newcomer but a personal favorite of many senior VMRO officials, captured the overwhelming majority of delegates at the …
Read More »Serbia Dinar Hits Record Low
Serbia’s dinar currency hit a record low on Monday, with its official middle exchange rate at 95.4564 dinars to the euro, a drop of some seven percent this year. Other emerging market currencies such as Hungary’s forint, Romania’s leu and Poland’s lek have suffered since the onset of the global …
Read More »Macedonia Opposition Makes Presidential Pick
Macedonia’s main opposition party, the Social Democrats, on Monday proposed university professor and former Foreign Minister Ljubomir Frckoski as the party’s candidate for the March 22 presidential election. The party will formalize Frckoski’s candidacy on a convention later during the day, Social Democrats acting President Zoran Zaev told reporters at …
Read More »Serbia Must Accept Kosovo To Join EU – Thaci
Serbia will never make it into the European Union if it keeps trying to sabotage Kosovo’s newly-declared independence and territorial integrity, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said in an interview. In an interview with Austrian daily Der Standard, Thaci said Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia last February, wanted “good …
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