Eurasia

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will visit Belgrade on December 16. The Netherlands is opposed to the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between Serbia and the European Union before the remaining two Hague fugitives have been extradited.

In democratic countries, the political debate rolls out in parliament, and therefore it is necessary that opposition parties in Albania end the boycott of parliament, senior EU official said. Pierre Mirel, European Commission Director the Western Balkans, made the remarks in Tirana on Tuesday.

Albania’s Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ilir Meta will pay 2-day visit to Kosovo. Meta, who was invited by his Kosovo counterpart Skender Hiseni, is scheduled to meet top officials of Kosovo and Serbian representatives. Media pointed out that Kosovo officials will discuss about Tirana’s lobbing for continuing the process …

The former UN Deputy Special Envoy for Kosovo, Ambassador Albert Rohan believes that Pristina’s future is in the European family, and warns that there might be some difficulties regarding UN membership.

Romania’s opposition Social Democratic Party and National Liberal Party Wednesday signed a political agreement to endorse social democratic leader Mircea Geoana in a presidential run-off against the incumbent President Traian Basescu and to assemble a parliamentary majority after the elections.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Rumyana Zheleva, who is on a 3-day visit to Washington, was received yesterday by Richard Morningstar, the US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, and Jonathan Elkind from the United States Department of Energy. 

If the government of the former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has been loyal ad honest then the European Union should immediately return the blocked money. This is what leader of Order, Law and Justice (OLJ) Yane Yanev said at a briefing in the Parliament.

Greek government will table December in the Parliament the final draft bill on Burgas–Alexandroupoli pipeline. Despite the expressed reserves over the benefits of the agreement and the complicated problems on environment, which the passing of the pipeline through Greek territory could bring, it seems that at practice the last stage …

A meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of ambassadors will be held on Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Russia’s mission to the alliance has said.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will arrive on a two-day official visit in Podgorica, today. The Montenegrin nomination for entering the NATO Membership Action Plan is expected to be discussed in Brussels on December 3-4.