Eurasia

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said that no Serbian officials will be attending the inauguration of new Croatian President Ivo Josipović.

The EU Foreign and Security Policies Chief Catherine Ashton will be making a visit to Serbia on Thursday. Ashton will be meeting with Serbian senior officials, including the president, prime minister, and other cabinet officials to discuss Serbia’s EU integration process. 

Russia and the Georgian rebel region of Abkhazia signed a deal yesterday allowing Moscow to build a military base on its soil, increasing its dependence on its sponsor and stoking tensions with Tbilisi.

Leaders of the parties of ethnical Albanians, present and former politicians, former commanders of the National Liberation Army marked 2 years anniversary of Kosovo independence.

The EU finance and economy ministers on Tuesday approved Greece’s plan to solve its public finance crisis within three years. The programme envisions measures to slash the country’s huge budget deficit by 4% this year with more measures to come.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said in Moscow on Tuesday that his country’s economic woes will not negatively affect implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline. Papandreou also declared that the current situation in Greece will have a positive effect on relations with Russia. Putin, in turn, downplayed Greece’s economic …

US Ambassador to BiH Charles English said that the referendum issue in the entity of Republika Srpska is very sensitive, adding the United States would consider provocative any issue that endangers the country’s stability, sovereignty or territorial integrity. The US Ambassador deplored the lack of reform, saying the political stalemate …

The Supreme Court decided on Tuesday (February 16th) that a third round of voting is necessary in the eastern Kosovo town of Gjilan to elect a new mayor.

The inauguration of Ivo Josipović, the third Croatian president since it gained independence, will be held in Zagreb today. About 80 envoys have confirmed their arrival, ten of those presidents and nine representatives of international organizations.

The OSCE will send its observers to monitor local elections in Georgia scheduled for May 30, the OSCE chairman in Tbilisi, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabaev said. “This matter has been solved and it is not the subject for discussions,” he added. Georgian opposition parties appealed to Saudabaev to send …