Eurasia

The election campaign for the June 5th parliamentary elections kicked off officially on May 15th. The election campaign will last for 20 days. The State Election Commission has confirmed 18 lists of candidates who will take part in the race from six electoral units. The voting process will be monitored …

EULEX has started investigating 26 new corruption cases this year, a spokesperson for the mission announced on Sunday (May 15th). The mission’s prosecutors are handling the cases in co-operation with local teams of prosecutors, EULEX spokesperson Blerim Krasniqi said. There are no details about any arrests or raids are planned …

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says that partitioning Kosovo would be the only viable long-term solution. On May 15th, he said that Serb-dominated parts of Kosovo should be acceded to Serbia, while the Albanian-populated part should be allowed to secede. The minister stressed that this is his personal opinion, adding …

Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev discussed military cooperation with his Georgian counterpart Bacho Akhalaia today, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, headed by Britt-Marie Lövgren, Sweden (ILDG), will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Moldova, in

Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will send a report on Serbia’s cooperation with the tribunal to the UN Secretariat on May 17. The document will then be distributed to all members of the UN Security Council. Brammertz will address the UN Security Council on June 6, the Hague Tribunal …

Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia is on an official visit to Baku. During the visit, he will hold talks with his Azerbaijani Counterpart Safar Abiyev. Akhalaia is expected to meet with the country’s leadership.

Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi said that Germany and France are seeking a compromise to allow Romania and Bulgaria into Schengen in the fall of 2011.

UN Security Council members have agreed that it is necessary to investigate claims of organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania, but have failed to reach consensus on who should lead the probe. The US, Britain, Germany and France said during the Security Council session on Thursday that the EU mission …

Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik cancelled a referendum aimed to contest the legitimacy of the state-level judiciary on last Friday. Dodik said the decision followed his meeting