Eurasia

Italy will respect the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kosovo, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has stated.

Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanović met on Wednesday in Belgrade with the UN mission in Kosovo chief, Lamberto Zannier. They talked about the situation in Serbia’s southern province, Tanjug said in its report.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been invited to attend the meeting on Western Balkans future, which will take place in Slovenia on March 20. In the invitation, signed by the Prime Ministers of Slovenia and Croatia, who are organizers of this conference, address

The EU will seek to establish Georgian-Russian relations, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said at a joint press conference with Georgia Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze.

The Belgian embassy in Belgrade has told politicians from South Serbia that it will deny all requests for asylum which have been submitted by Serbian nationals this year. According to Beta news agency, Riza Halimi, the only ethnic Albanian MP in Serbia’s parliament, said that he was informed on Tuesday …

European and Moldovan officials will negotiate visa regime liberalization beginning in June. The decision was taken by 5 European Commission observers after their official mission in Moldova. They met Moldova Prime Minister Vlad Filat and set the start of negotiations regarding visa regime liberalization for Moldovans in June 2010.

Romanian PM Emil Boc deputed the foreign affairs minister to issue a new application blank for small border traffic permits. Boc is willing to take further steps to facilitate obtaining traffic permits. Yesterday, Emil Boc had a phone discussion with his Moldovan opposite number Vlad Filat. They spoke about the …

The arrest of a former Bosnian wartime politician in London is convenient for Balkan nationalist rhetoric: It lends Serbia a boost of power in the eyes of the public and throws Bosnia’s ethno-nationalists another bone of contention to use ahead of elections, Anes Alic comments for ISN Security Watch. The …

The Ukraine parliament has ousted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with a vote of no confidence. Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s recently elected president, now needs to form a working coalition to run the country.

British Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth said that Serbia could join the EU in seven or eight years. This would come “if it focuses all of its efforts on European integration and removes all the obstacles in its path,” he said.