Eurasia News

Turkey has welcomed the re-election of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to lead the world’s largest body until 2016. The UN General Assembly voted unanimously on Tuesday to give Ban a second term as UN chief.

Today members of the Federation Council ratified an agreement between Azerbaijan and Russia on the state borders, setting mutual national borderline points between Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia extending to the Caspian Sea. The agreement states that the line corresponds to the former administrative border between Dagestan ASSR and Azerbaijan SSR. …

Serbia’s FM Vuk Jeremić, who is currently on a visit to Brussels, is scheduled to meet with European Union (EU) Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule today. Late on Wednesday, Jeremić attended in Brussels the opening of the representative office of the town of Niš. 

Belgrade negotiating team chief Borislav Stefanović said on Wednesday that the first concrete results of the Kosovo talks can be expected early next month. This would happen at the regular meeting of delegations of Serbia and the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Brussels.

Serbian President Boris Tadić will pay the first official visit to Sarajevo in the beginning of July. During his visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina the Serbian president will meet with members of Bosnia’s Presidency.

Slavo Kukic, Bosnia’s Prime Ministerial nominee, has completed consultations with parliamentary parties, but without meeting the leaders of the strongest Serb and Croat parties, his candidacy appears doomed. Slavo Kukic, a candidate for the Chairman of Bosnia’s Council of Ministers, ended his visit to Banja Luka, de facto capital of …

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, ICR, has asked the head of EULEX, Xavier De Marnhac, to explain why police investigated him about the appointment of a new central bank boss. Pieter Fieth, whose role is to supervise Kosovo’s independence, has issued a complaint about his investigation at the hands …

Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar is paying an official visit to Belgrade. He meets his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic and Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic. Up for discussion are situation in the region, bilateral cooperation, Serbia’s European integration and Belgrade-Pristina dialog.

The Bulgarian government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Kosovo regarding cooperation in fight with organized crime and international

At the end of its EU accession talks, Serbia will have to recognize Kosovo – otherwise German MPs will not approve its accession to the organization. This was heard today from a delegation of visiting German MPs, who held an informal conversation with reporters and editors of Belgrade-based media.