Eurasia

Russia may join the World Trade Organization without getting any approval from Georgia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. “I do not want to go into details on how it could be done without Georgia’s consent,” Lavrov said during his current visit to Abkhazia. “All I can say is …

A trilateral summit of Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) takes place on Tuesday (April 26th) in Karadjordjevo. President Boris Tadic, his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and members of BiH tripartite presidency — Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic — will discuss co-operation among their countries.

The EU is ready to help find a way out of the situation created when Republika Srpska’s (RS) parliament decided recently to call a referendum on High Representative-imposed laws, particularly on the BiH Court and

The European Parliament (EP) is expected to send a group of observers to monitor the May 8th local elections, media reported on Sunday (April 24th). The observers will come as an independent group to join other international teams monitoring the process. The presence of observers was requested by Prime Minister …

Edita Tahiri, Kosovo’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Serbia, is down playing any possibility of Kosovo’s division being a future subject of negotiations. Officials in Serbia have mentioned the possibility, stating Belgrade

European Commission (EC) is of the opinion that there is no need for early elections in Serbia. According to an unnamed source from Commissioner Štefan Füle’s cabinet, EC has communicated

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Tuesday (April 19th) that accession talks with Turkey may restart in June after a year-long hiatus. His statement followed a meeting of the EU-Turkey Association Council

The OSCE is urging Albania to limit the immunity of public officials by changing laws and the constitution. The organisation’s Ambassador to Tirana, Eugen Wollfarth, said on Tuesday (April 19th) that the “volunteer

The census process in Kosovo ended on Tuesday (April 19th), four days later than initially planned. The Bureau of Statistics decided last week to extend the headcount in seven municipalities and according to reports, there

Relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Macedonia are not at all marred by open political issues. Our duty is only to resume the cooperation, urged Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after meeting with his Macedonian host and counterpart Antonio Milososki on Wednesday in Ohrid.