Eurasia

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, is starting his trip to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia next today to meet government leaders and representatives of political parties to discuss OSCE work in the region and the Lithuanian Chairmanship’s priorities for 2011.

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said on Friday (March 11th) that he will order the arrest of former Vice President Ejup Ganic and retired Army General Jovan Divjak if they enter the entity’s territory. Serbia

Branko Crvenkovski, leader of the opposition SDSM party, accepted an invitation on Friday (March 11th) to meet with Prime Minister and ruling VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski about a date for holding early

The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Friday (March 11th) it has granted temporary release to Franko Simatovic, a former commander of the special unit of Serbia’s State Security Service. He will be released from March

About 200 members of the Islamic Wahhabi movement gathered in front of the parliament building in Sarajevo on Saturday (March 12th) to protest the detention of seven Arabs suspected of posing a threat to national

Expressing determination for exploring all options to find a comprehensive and permanent solution to the Aegean dispute between Greece and his country, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also encouraged Greece to give up its decades-old perception of Turkey as a threat.

Unlike its neighbors, Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind in its EU integration, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov warned in Sarajevo on Monday. “We have paved the road of reforms that Bosnia and Herzegovina should take. That is why we are here today as neighbors and friends who

The Belgrade-Priština dialogue depends on the “commitment of the two countries” to the European perspective, says a Kosovo Albanian official. “The Kosovo government looks upon the dialogue with the belief that it will contribute to the normalization of Kosovo’s relations with Serbia,” Kosovo

Serbian team chief negotiator Borko Stefanović says that it will take time and patience for negotiations between Belgrade and Priština to produce results. “We do not lack good will and new solutions. The process will last as long as necessary,” Stefanović said.

Georgian-Russian talks on Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization will be held in Bern (Switzerland) on March 9. Moscow officially appealed to Tbilisi with the initiative to hold talks, Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze said today at a traditional briefing.