Eurasia

Bulgaria’s parliament is scheduled to debate on Friday a a declaration demanding that President Georgi Parvanov recall the Bulgarian ambassadors to Turkey and the United States. The center-right ruling GERB party, far-right ‘Ataka’, the rightist Blue Coalition and the conservative ‘Law, Order, Justice’ party (RZS) submitted on Wednesday the declaration, …

Following years of tensions, Romania and the Republic of Moldova moved closer Friday with the signing of several bilateral agreements, officials say.

On Nov. 13, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s one-day working visit to the Republic of Bulgaria ended. An honor guard was built at the international airport of Sofia in honor of the President of Azerbaijan. Ilham Aliyev was accompanied by high-ranking officials and government representatives of Bulgaria.

The spokesperson of Kosovo Police Service for the region of Gnjilane, Ismet Hasani, confirmed that Serbia and Montenegro nationals need a passport to enter Kosovo as of 12 November. 

US Ambassador in Tirana John L Withers called on Prime Minister Sali Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama to find common ground and resolve the politcal row that has engulfed the country since the 28 June parliamentary elections. “Our position (on the parliamentary boycott) is that it would really be …

The official talks on the new agreement with the EU will start on January 12, Moldova’s Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca said in a news conference held in Bucharest after a meeting with his Romanian counterpart Catalin Predoiu. “We hope the new agreement will be called association agreement and when we …

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has left for a two-day working visit to Bucharest on November 13 early morning. During the first half of Friday, he was scheduled to attend a Summit of the heads of government of Central European Initiative (CEI) member countries, during which he is to make a …

“Not a single war crime I have processed so far was committed without a robbery,” says Serbia’s War Crime Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević. In an article published by Belgrade daily Danas, Vukčević stressed that war crimes and organized crime were “two faces of the same freak”.

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met Pope Benedict XVI for the first time on Thursday at the Vatican. Mesic and Benedict XVI discussed the situation in the region around Croatia, Croatian-EU relations, the main challenges for the future and other factors that promote stability and strengthen peace.

The official welcome offered to Biljana Plavsic, recently released from prison having being convicted for war crimes by the UN’s War Crimes Tribunal, in the Serb-dominated part of Bosnia Republika Srpska has sparked outrage, prompting some victims of the country’s 1992-95 war to accuse Bosnian Serb leadership of fascism. “Unfortunately, …