Montenegrin PM Milo Đukanović thinks that a whole Bosnia-Herzegovina does not have an alternative. He said in Washington on Thursday while giving a lecture at a university that “any secession idea could have tragic consequences to stability of the region”. “Bosnia-Herzegovina must survive and we think that all efforts leading …
Read More »Zbogar: EU to encourage settlement of open Balkan issues
European Union should encourage solving open issues between Western Balkan countries, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said last night in Paris. He pointed the recent border issue settlement between Slovenia and Croatia. The two countries made a great step forward by signing the arbitrage agreement.
Read More »Text of Moldova’s Declaration of Independence recovered
File No. 1175 of the Moldovan Parliament’s archive that contains Law No. 691-XII on Moldova’s Declaration of Independence, the copy of the text of the Declaration of Independence, the proceedings of the extraordinary session of the Parliament of Moldova and other documents that disappeared after the April events was recovered. …
Read More »Serbia, Romania signed a plan military cooperation
The chiefs of Serbian and Romanian MoD military cooperation departments signed on Thursday in Belgrade a plan for bilateral military cooperation for 2010. The plan, signed by Milorad Perić and Alexandru Cotoara-Nicolae, envisages exchange of high-level visits, joint exercises and exchange of experiences in the defense system reform.
Read More »PACE delegation in Serbian parliament
A delegation of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) visited the Serbian parliament on Thursday. They conferred with representatives of the ruling majority and the opposition in the on Serbia’s progress in fulfilling its commitments stemming from Council of Europe membership, reports said.
Read More »Moldova- Vladimir Voronin asks postponing questioning meeting
The former head of state Vladimir Voronin asked the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) to put off the questioning meeting set for January 22. He filed an application to the PG on January 21. According to the PG’s press service, in his application Voronin says he has a tight schedule, including …
Read More »UN Security Council to discuss Kosovo
The UN Security Council will debate on the situation in Kosovo in New York this Friday, at a session to be addressed by the Serbian President Boris Tadić. Tadić is due to speak at the council at 21:00 CET. The session will consider the latest three-monthly report of UN Secretary …
Read More »Quarrel at EP over Macedonia
The last sitting of the European Parliament (EP) delegation in Strasbourg on Wednesday, held to work out the details around the meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Macedonia scheduled for February 18-19 in Skopje, ended up with a severe discussion, which looked like a quarrel between German and Greek MEPs. …
Read More »Bosnian parliament meets last condition before visa liberalization
Bosnian MPs passed the amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code, which was the last condition before the lifting of the visa regime in the European Union. Thus, the Bosnian parliament met all conditions on the road map for liberalization of the visa regime for Bosnian citizens before the arrival …
Read More »Serbia May Be EU Candidate by Year’s End
Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic has said his country could become an EU candidate by the end of this year. Djelic said that this could happen if the country gets it candidacy questionnaire from the EU by mid spring and fills it out by the summer. The questionnaire aims …
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