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The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Friday (March 11th) it has granted temporary release to Franko Simatovic, a former commander of the special unit of Serbia’s State Security Service. He will be released from March

About 200 members of the Islamic Wahhabi movement gathered in front of the parliament building in Sarajevo on Saturday (March 12th) to protest the detention of seven Arabs suspected of posing a threat to national

Expressing determination for exploring all options to find a comprehensive and permanent solution to the Aegean dispute between Greece and his country, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also encouraged Greece to give up its decades-old perception of Turkey as a threat.

Unlike its neighbors, Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind in its EU integration, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov warned in Sarajevo on Monday. “We have paved the road of reforms that Bosnia and Herzegovina should take. That is why we are here today as neighbors and friends who

The Belgrade-Priština dialogue depends on the “commitment of the two countries” to the European perspective, says a Kosovo Albanian official. “The Kosovo government looks upon the dialogue with the belief that it will contribute to the normalization of Kosovo’s relations with Serbia,” Kosovo

Serbian team chief negotiator Borko Stefanović says that it will take time and patience for negotiations between Belgrade and Priština to produce results. “We do not lack good will and new solutions. The process will last as long as necessary,” Stefanović said.

Georgian-Russian talks on Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization will be held in Bern (Switzerland) on March 9. Moscow officially appealed to Tbilisi with the initiative to hold talks, Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze said today at a traditional briefing.

The foreign ministers of Austria, Slovenia and Bulgaria — Michael Spindelegger, Samuel Zbogar and Nikolay Mladenov respectively– will visit Sarajevo on Monday (March 7th) to meet with members of the BiH tripartite

A court in the Austrian town of Korneuburg on Friday (March 4th) remanded Bosnian Army General Jovan Divjak to 14 days in custody pending extradition. Divjak was detained on Thursday at the Vienna airport based on

In Albania, the main opposition Socialist Party threatened on Friday (March 4th) to hold a new wave of protests calling for early elections, starting with one on Tuesday. The opposition accuses the cabinet of corruption and manipulation of the 2009 parliamentary elections. A January 21st anti-government rally in Tirana ended …