Eurasia

Viktor Kalnik, Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria, said that a second gas crisis could not be expected, as Ukraine and Russia had successfully negotiated the gas transit tariffs. He emphasized that in the end it was proved Ukraine never

The Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Greece – Boyko Borisov and Georgios Papandreou will officially open the Zlatograd – Thermes border checkpoint today. Deputy Ministers of foreign affairs of the two countries – Dimitris Drutsas and Marin Raykov, signed the agreement for the opening of the checkpoint, on January 11 …

The barbed wire from the Prut River, that separates the Moldo-Romanian borders, will be removed till the beginning of March. The barbed wire will have to be removed by the employees of the Frontier Guard Service and local authorities. These EOD supplies will disappear from sector of the border guard …

The EU Visa Center, operating under the auspices of the Embassy of Hungary in Chisinau, has commenced issuing entry visas to Greece and the Netherlands. Ambassador Gyorgy Varga said that last year the number of visa seekers diminished. The Center provided services to 8.013 applicants, of which 13% applications were …

The former Chief Negotiator for the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union, the first Czech European Commissar in the Romano Prodi Cabinet, Pavel Telicka, has arrived for a three-day visit to Moldova on Wednesday. Association for External Policy (APE), which is realizing in Moldova a project of using other …

Ivica Dačić says his party is not against a resolution about the Srebrenica crime but that it should also condemn all crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. Dačić, who is first deputy PM and interior minister in the current cabinet, is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Serbia will be informed about the EU member states attitude toward its candidacy bid and the next steps that are to be taken, the Spanish ambassador says. “We have started consultations with EU member states on Serbia’s demand and on January 26, EU is to meet with Serbia at the …

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says he will not stop visiting Serbs in the province regardless of yesterday’s incident near Štrpce. Bogdanović intended to welcome in the Orthodox (Julian calendar) New Year on Mt. Brezovica with the local Serbs “and learn about the problems they face, and how to …

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek called on Albania’s opposition to return to parliament. He made the remarks after the talks with Albanian Parliament President Josephina Topalli. He noted that this is an internal matter of a sovereign country.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a front runner in a presidential election on Sunday, said on Thursday she wanted to take the former Soviet republic into the European Union within five years. President Viktor Yushchenko had made membership of the EU and the NATO military alliance the cornerstone of his …