Eurasia

Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti will make an official visit to Romania today. Timofti will meet with Romanian President Traian Basescu and the chairpersons of the two chambers of the Romanian parliament. This is Timofti’s second visit to a foreign country as president of Moldova and the first to Romania.

Serbian candidate for presidency Tomislav Nikolic said on Wednesday that Serbia should join EU only with Kosovo. “If the EU wants Serbia as its member state, it will not set the conditions that the country cannot meet,” he said.

German and Swedish Foreign Ministers hailed in Berlin an agreement on holding of the Serbian elections in Kosovo. Guido Westerwelle and Carl Bildt also urged Serbia to remain committed to its EU road. “The people in Serbia need to make their own decision,” Bildt stressed commenting the upcoming elections in …

Radovan Karadzic said there was no genocide against Muslims in Bosnia. He explained that there had been no genocide since 2.6 percent of the Muslim

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili received the Spanish Congress of Deputies (lower house) Foreign Relations Committee chairman Josep Antoni Duran. Duran hailed the political, economic and social reforms and said that his country supports Georgia’s aspiration to NATO and the EU. The two parts discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation. Duran …

EP President Martin Schultz will arrive in Bulgaria today to deliver a speech on Europe’s anti-crisis solutions in Sofia-based University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The lecture is organized by the university, the Bulgarian Atlantic Club and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

The Albanian government agreed on Wednesday to allow access to its territory to a EULEX team of prosecutors which will investigate allegations that the KLA harvested organs of Serb war prisoners. Prime Minister Sali Berisha said the parliament will pass a

Fatmir Limaj, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, has been acquitted in the Klecka case by a Kosovo Court together with three other ex-fighters. A team of European and Kosovo Judges at Pristina’s District Court announced on Wednesday that there is no proof to continue the trial …

The German government decided on Wednesday to extend the mandate of the country’s troops as part of KFOR troops in Kosovo for another year. The extended mandate maintains the limit on the number of German

Catherine Ashton has welcomed the resumption of rail freight service in the Moldovan Republic of Transdniestria. “It is a major step in building confidence between the two banks of the Dniester River. We are satisfied that the EU technical examination allowed to find a practical solution. The resumption of the …