Eurasia

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive on a two-day working visit in Greece on May 14. The first session of the Turkish-Greek strategic cooperation council will take place, during the visit. The session will be co-chaired by Erdogan and by his Greek counterpart Georgios Papandreou. The Turkish delegation will …

Turkey should make some progress in its negotiations to join the European Union in the next two months, Spain’s foreign minister said on Monday, urging the bloc to intensify its cooperation with Ankara. Speaking after a regular meeting to assess Turkey’s readiness to join the 27-member union, Miguel Angel Moratinos …

The NATO-led Kosovo force (KFOR) kicked off a two-day exercise in central part of Kosovo, including the capital Pristina. Exercises involving KFOR maneuver forces from Multinational Battle Group Centre (MNBG-C) and Multinational Battle Group South (MNBG-S) will be conducted in central part of Kosovo on May 11-12.

Excavation will soon begin near the town of Raška, where a suspected mass grave is located, says War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević. Vukčević said that it is not known who killed the victims, while witnesses said that the site might contain the bodies of 250 Kosovo Albanians. The excavation will …

Serbia is committed to meet all of the necessary conditions to join the family of European countries, says Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković. Its priority is to see the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) goes into effect and to gain the status of an

The formula for holding the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sarajevo on June 2 has been determined, Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said. The conference in Sarajevo has been well prepared, Moraitnos said last night in Brussels, adding that all countries agreed to use “Gimnich formula” for holding the meeting.

Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov will pay an official visit to Kosovo today. He is scheduled to meet with his Kosovo counterpart Skender Hyseni as well as with Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. Bulgarian FM will also meet with KFOR representatives and representatives of …

Philip Gordon, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs will visit Skopje on Thursday and meet Macedonian top officials, US State Department said. Gordon is scheduled to meet Macedonian President Gjorgje Ivanov and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Gordon will also visit Serbia and Kosovo.

Obnova sarajevske Vijećnice traje godinama i trenutno se ne nazire kraj radova. Odugovlačenje s obnovom jedne od najvećih znamenitosti Sarajeva, čije je spaljivanje dokaz barbarstva u proteklom ratu, dosad je pravdano nedostatkom novca. Računica pak pokazuje da je osigurano čak šest miliona KM više nego što je predračunom radova predviđeno …

The European Council adopted directives for the negotiation of association agreements with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, to replace the current partnership and cooperation agreements with the three countries. It also agreed on the position to be adopted by