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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called his Turkish counterpart Monday to discuss the dispute about gas drilling in the Mediterranean between Turkey and Cyprus, a Turkish official announced. “Both parties stressed their

Despite the unwillingness of the authorities in Pristina to discuss the situation in North Kosovo and Jarinje and Brnjak checkpoints in the next round of talks, Serbian officials are set to put the two issues on the agenda of the dialog. It is expected Serbia’s chief negotiator Borislav Stefanovic will …

The new round of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina are expected to take place in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. Telecommunications, energy and Kosovo’s participation in regional meetings and initiatives will be up for discussion. The sources refuse to say whether the agenda will include a discussion of the situation …

Bosnia’s political leaders were to meet on Monday in a bid to resolve the most serious post-war crisis in the country that still has no government almost a year after general elections. After several failed attempts to form a central government in the country divided along ethnic lines into two …

Turkey’s sanctions against Syrian government mainly target bilateral economic, military, political and banking ties in order not to effect its people. Turkey’s sanctions against Syria, which will likely be announced in early October, will be as comprehensive as possible and will be shaped so as not to hurt the country’s …

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is planning on visiting Belgrade for the second time this year, daily Danas has learned from top Serbian officials. The Russian prime minister officially visited Serbia on March 23, when he spoke to Serbian

Trial of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj continued on Monday in the Hague Tribunal after three weeks. A protected witness said that “Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK)”, i.e. the 134th brigade had entered Kosovo in June 1998 to fight against Serbian paramilitary forces.

The Commission has confirmed reports that citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an EU hopeful for which Brussels lifted visa requirements in November 2010, could again be subjected to the cumbersome procedure, due to the large number of asylum-seekers from this country.

The Balkans will only become a permanently stable region when all the countries that comprised the former Yugoslavia are accepted as members of the European Union, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly. 

Bulgaria may receive its first gas deliveries from Azerbaijan in 2013, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said after a meeting with his Azeri counterpart Natig Aliyev in Baku. Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) and Greece’s power utility DEPA have pledged to complete the gas inter-connection between Bulgaria and Greece in …