Eurasia

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission will arrive in Belgrade on Thursday, it has been announced. They will immediately begin technical talks with the Serbian government on the sixth revision of the stand-by arrangement between the IMF and Serbia, IMF Resident Representative in Serbia Bogdan Lissovolik said.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded today a training course for police investigators on war crime cases. Twenty-five police inspectors and two prosecutors from the District Prosecutor’s Office of Banja Luka and Doboj, as well as two investigators from the BiH Prosecutor’s Office in Sarajevo took part in …

The European Union will support Bosnia in its bid to join the bloc as a united country that would be able to speak with one voice, visiting EU President Herman Van Rompuy said here on Wednesday. He was speaking after

Albanian government’s initiative to start reforming the election system was the main topic discussed on Tuesday (October 19th) between Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and OSCE head Eugen Wollfarth, who says the

BiH Prosecutors pressed charges on Tuesday (October 19th) against former Bosnian Muslim armed forces officer Osman Sego for war crimes committed against civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. According to the charges, Sego was involved in crimes against Croatian civilians between July 1993 and March 1994 in Bugojno. He was …

Kosovo’s Parliament Speaker and Acting President  Jakup Krasniqi said on Tuesday (October 19th) that resolving the current institutional crisis depends on the will of the parties in parliament. After a regular meeting of

The European Parliament Rapporteur on visa liberalisation for the Western Balkans, Tanja Fajon, arrived in Kosovo on Wednesday (October 20th) for meetings with officials in charge of EU integration and visa

Ukraine Defense Minister Mikhail Yezhel and his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, signed a deal Wednesday on Russia’s Black Sea fleet based in Crimea, southern Ukraine. “Under the deal, the Russian side is committed to annually inform the Ukrainian side about the exact number of its personnel, equipment and weapons of …

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić is visiting Slovenia and he will speak to his hosts about Serbia’s EU integration and the planned Belgrade-Priština dialogue on Kosovo. The Serbian FM said after the meeting with his Slovenian

Negotiations on Transnistrian conflict settlement may be resumed after the Republic of Moldova is through with its election process, presumes President Dmitry Medvedev. The Russian leader stated at a joint news conference in Deauville-sur-Mer (France), organized to cover the results of Russian-French-German consultations today, that the Transnistrian settlement topic was …