Eurasia

The European Union and NATO refused to recognise the elections in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, held on Friday, which saw Alexander Ankvab, a Moscow loyal, earn a resounding victory. Alexander Ankvab, a former pro-Russian businessman who was appointed acting president after the death of Georgia’s president in May, won …

Authorities in Kosovo have appointed a US prosecutor to investigate allegations linking prime minister Hashim Thaci and other senior figures to organ trafficking. “John Clint Williamson from the United States has been appointed lead prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force,” the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo …

Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci on Friday announced he had reached a deal with NATO over two disputed border posts, which could settle the crisis that has engulfed Kosovo’s majority Serb north. The government in Pristina “has reached an agreement for preserving the newly established situation at the border,” Thaci …

Serbia’s President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to resume dialogue on Kosovo this after last week’s public spat on Serbia’s role in its former province. Serbia’s President is expected to hold new talks with Germany’s leader following last week’s dispute on Belgrade’s role in Kosovo.

Serbian President Boris Tadic on Thursday raised the possibility that Serbia will not become an EU candidate member state by the end of the year due to the dispute over Kosovo. “We have to frankly tell our citizens that there is a possibilitythat we will not obtain the candidate status …

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić is confident that Serbia will get the EU candidate status in December. He underscored that he would resign if this did not happen.

Milo Đukanović says that the relations between Montenegro and Serbia are at significantly lower level than it is necessary and possible. The leader of the ruling Montenegrin DPS party and the former

French diplomat Philippe Lefort was named Friday as the European Union’s new special envoy to the South Caucasus and the three-year-old row between Georgia and Russia. A former French ambassador to Georgia and deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Moscow, Lefort takes over the Georgia crisis job from …

On occasion of the 3rd anniversary of recognition of its independence by Russia, South Ossetia has closed the border with Georgia to avoid any escalation of the situation, Georgian media reported.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is traveling to Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina this week to discuss regional issues and attend Ramadan feast celebrations. Davutoglu will begin his tour with a stop in Kosovo’s capital Pristina Friday. He will meet with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj. The Turkish …