Eurasia

The newly elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay his first official visit after his appointment to Moldova, the head of the Moldovan delegation to this organization Ana Gutu said Tuesday.

Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos says the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU is one of the Spanish presidency’s priorities. Moratinos said that Spain expects that the EU member-states will be able to unfreeze the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia by June. The agreement was signed …

Georgia will not send observers to Ukraine to monitor the second round of presidential elections, Georgian presidential press secretary Manana Manjgaladze said.

Romania and Azerbaijan have signed Tuesday a memorandum on co-operation in the energy sector through which the Azerbaijan company can export oil and gas to Romania and EU SOCAR can export oil and gas to the European Union, including Romania, the director of the economy ministry Koreliu Kondoia, who is …

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will pay a visit to Romania in the spring, the spokesperson of the President Manana Manjgaladze announced. This has been announced after the spokesperson explained why the President will not attend the International Security Conference in Munich. The Georgian President has been invited January to attend …

We cannot miss saying that this is some long-awaited agreement. It is a result of the work of many governments since 2002 till now, MP Ramadan Atalay from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party said, commenting on the ratification of the Nabucco Agreement.

Bulgarian MPs passed the draft bill for ratification of the Agreement among Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey on the construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline project. The draft bill on the ratification of the Nabucco Agreement has been passed with 156 votes.

Bosnian Police arrested on Monday (February 1st) a former Muslim commander suspected of committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. Zulfikar Alispago allegedly did not take appropriate measures to punish subordinates who committed war crimes in the village of Trusina, near Konjic, on …

Croatia’s President-elect Ivo Josipovic and Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor held their first official meeting Monday (February 1st), following Josipovic’s victory in the January 10th run-off election. They discussed the EU integration process, the economic crisis and ways to fight corruption while agreeing to meet the day after Josipovic’s February 18th …

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said that the questionnaire Brussels sent to Albania before it can be granted visa liberalisation has been completed. Experts from Brussels will visit Tirana in the coming weeks to evaluate the process.