Eurasia

EU foreign ministers’ conclusion Tuesday is not the same as last year’s NATO conclusion in Bucharest regarding the country’s entry into the Alliance, the EU’s top ambassador to Skopje told media. He said the decision by foreign ministers to revisit the question of whether to give Macedonia a start date …

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has denied that Bulgaria was among the countries that had prevented the EU from extending a date for neighbouring Macedonia to begin EU accession negotiations. Borisov stated this on Thursday after local media in Macedonia speculated that his country backed Greece at this week’s EU …

Speaking in ceremony organised by the office of the ombudsman, Albania’s President Bamir Topi, US and EU diplomats called on the country’s politicians to show greater respect for democratic standards. “Democracy, constitutional law and human rights are dynamic concepts, always progressing and as such efforts to stand alongside them, to …

Moldova’s  Government decided to open talks on the draft intergovernmental agreement on visa-free trips with 25 countries, whose citizens travel without visas in the European Union.

The Netherlands, Laos, Romania and UK will state their opinions on the legality of Kosovo’s secession at the Peace Palace in The Hague on Thursday.

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Admiral James Stavridis was in Priština on Wednesday. He told reporters that the number of the NATO-led KFOR troops in Kosovo would be reduced from the present 15,000 to 10,000 by the end of January 2010.

Dutch FM Maxime Verhagen says the arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladić remains the condition of ratification of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA).

EULEX spokesman Christophe Lamfalussy on Wednesday made a statement on the first anniversary of the arrival of EULEX arrival in Kosovo. All achievements made by Kosovo in the police, customs and judiciary sectors are also achievements of this EU mission.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki will pay official visit t Federal Republic of Germany, where he will attend two conferences.

Macedonian Defense Minister Zoran Konjanovski will visit NATO Headquarters in Brussels and the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers Europe in Mons in Belgium.