Eurasia

Syria’s opposition National Coalition Wednesday said it welcomed the US-Russian plan to hold a Syria peace conference in Geneva. In a statement released in Istanbul after days

Talks on the implementation of the Belgrade-Priština agreement and electric power and telecommunications started in Brussels at 11:00 CET. Belgrade’s implementation team is led by

The UN secretary-general has asked the Hague Tribunal to examine the possibility of Serbian war crimes convicts serving their sentences in their home country. Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic asked the UN

Turkish President Abdullah Gül welcomed yesterday the EU decision to lift the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition. “It’s obvious that nobody can suppress people through arms and the army. In this respect, we

Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will attend the plenary session of the European Parliament (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels on Wednesday.

President Bujar Nishani on Tuesday said he would not participate in the summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process, SEECP, after his Kosovo counterpart was not invited. Nishani said he would not be going to Macedonia out of “disappointment with the destructive conditionality that

Former Bosnian Croat president Jadranko Prlic and five co-defendants were jailed on Wednesday for between 10 and 25 years for murdering and deporting Muslims in Bosnia in the early 1990s to create a “greater Croatian state”. The six former top Bosnian Croat officials faced 26 counts

EU Delegation head Vincent Degert says the South-East European Cooperation Process is not covered in the Brussels agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. However, the EU “would like to see Kosovo take part in the gathering.”

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has criticized the EU for slow progress on Turkey’s accession talks with the 27-nation bloc, saying that the EU needs a fresh strategic perspective. “With one flower, spring does not come,” he said, referring to the expected opening

President of Tunisia Moncef Marzouki said that they would support political solution in Syria. Marzouki appeared at a joint press conference with President Abdullah Gul and stressed, “We will