Eurasia

On April 8, Georgian Parliament unanimously approved Irakli Kavtaradze as an ambassador of Georgia to Azerbaijan. He served as a Secretary on Foreign Relations of the ruling United National Movement Party

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Paris on Wednesday that he hopes French President Nicolas Sarkozy will change his stance on EU membership for Turkey.

EU President Herman van Rompuy on Wednesday confirmed the bloc’s commitment to providing financial assistance to Greece if the country fails to raise the money it needs from bond markets.

Kosovo finished the European Commission’s questionnaire on trade relations with the EU and sent the report to Brussels on Wednesday (April 7th), a week earlier than scheduled. The 217 questions deal with mechanisms that regulate trade, legislative regulations, customs, public procurement and economic competition.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg has arrived in Belgrade on the third stop of his Balkan tour, and he met this morning with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. During his meetings with local officials, Steinberg is expected to “convey to Serbia’s officials Washington’s support …

Tara noastra va insista asupra importantei articolului 5 din Tratatul NATO, privind indivizibilitatea securitatii colective, ca punct central al noului concept strategic al Organizatiei. Declaratia a fost facuta de de ministrul Afacerilor Externe, Teodor Baconschi, in cadrul unei conferinte de presa sustinute joi la sediul MAE, alaturi de Umit Pamir …

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos stated in Sarajevo that the Western Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina were high on EU’s priority list. After talking to Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj, the Spanish FM, whose country is presiding over the EU, repeated that the EU-Western

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that he is concerned over Priština’s new policies towards northern Kosovo. He called on the Kosovo Albanian government to “carefully implement” its new strategy for that part of the territory, which has a majority ethnic Serb population. “I am concerned because of the possible …

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas is due to arrive in Ankara on Thursday and meet with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The talks are expected to focus on open issues between the two countries as well as the marking of the sea border.

Swedish police have announced that they have arrested a Kosovo Serb over allegations of war crimes committed in the village of Cuska near Peja/Pec, Kosovo in May 1999. The suspect, who is reportedly in his thirties, was arrested in a joint operation by the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department (Rikskriminalen) …