Eurasia

The Russian delegation to PACE announced the impossibility of solving the problems existing between Georgia and Russia on Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This is according to the head

Greece will hold general elections on May 6. A total of 32 parties will field candidates, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The conservatives and the socialists, who have alternated in power in the last three decades, have lost support to left-wing parties which are against austerity measures that brought Greece near …

Moldovan president emitted a decree for recalling the Moldovan ambassador to Russia Andrei Neguta. Moldovan PM Vlad Filat said the duty of the ambassadors is to represent Moldova abroad and respectively execute their mission. Two week ago Moldovan MPs asked for the ambassador to Moscow to be recalled over statements about …

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov starts on Thursday an official two-day visit to Azerbaijan. He will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister Artur Rasizade. The purpose of the visit is to discuss ways to boost the trade-economic relations between the two countries, gas supplies to Bulgaria …

Herman van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, paid a one-day visit to Romania and Bulgaria. In Romania, Rompuy met the President Traian Băsescu, the Prime Minister Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu and spoke in front of the Romanian Parliament

On April 25 in Strasbourg, Bosnian Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, expressed hope and commitment  that the country would soon implement the 2009 European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ruling, which says Bosnia must change its constitution to allow ethnic minorities to run for top posts.

KFOR Commander Erhard Drews has stated that additional 700 NATO troops are expected to arrive in Kosovo by Friday. The Operational Reserve Forces (ORF) troops, would be sent to KFOR before the Serbian elections that will take place on May 6. The troops will be composed by 550 German and …

A meeting of the heads of the Georgian and Russian delegations will be held at the initiative of the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Georgian side expressed readiness to start a dialogue with Russia, if it fulfils all its international obligations. Russia has a …

Kazakh Education and Science Minister Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov will visit Romania. The Kazakh Minister will meet with Education, Research, Youth

EU President Herman van Rompuy arrives on a one-day visit to Sofia on Wednesday to discuss the government’s plan for diversification of the natural gas supplies to Europe. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Herman van Rompuy will have a one-to-one meeting, followed by a joint news conference.