Eurasia

The US administration admits that the process of admission of Georgia and Ukraine to NATO will take years, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow confirmed on Wednesday at hearings devoted to the Obama administration policy towards the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). …

The European Union monitoring mission confirmed the violation of so-called the administrative border between Georgia and South Ossetia by 16 Georgian citizens who were detained by Russia’s border guards, the website of the mission reported.

Romania’s President Traian Basescu said Romania will be against reopening of the process of ratification of the Lisbon Treaty that may become necessary as a result of the “Czech Republic’s requirements” and that the solutions should be found in the frames of the current agreement.

The Hague Tribunal has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s appeal of the Tribunal’s decision to forbid the publishing of one of his responses in a written interview with Le Monde. After the Registrar’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, reviewed a copy of the interview Karadzic wanted …

Macedonian Premier Nikola Gruevski held a short informal meeting with his new Greek counterpart, George Papandreou, on Thursday in Brussels. The parlay, which took place on the sidelines of an EU Council meeting, was expected to focus on the countries’ name dispute, but both leaders left after the meeting without …

NATO membership would stabilise the political situation in Bosnia and open the way for the settlement of all questions concerning the country’s future, Bosnia’s defence minister says. “In the current situation, when our politics are war by other means, NATO membership would resolve all open security issues,” Selmo Cikotic said …

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and new US War Crimes Ambassador Stephen Rapp are convinced that Serbia is cooperating fully with the Hague Tribunal. US diplomats will look to promote this impression, in order to press the Dutch to allow the unblocking of Serbia’s Interim Trade Agreement with the …

Butmirski proces, iako nije rezultirao dogovorom, nije propao jer je međunarodnoj zajednici jasno pokazao ko je spreman za dogovor, a ko nije, smatra to Asim Sarajlić, zamjenik predsjednika SDA. Kao učesnik pregovora o napretku BiH, vođenih u Butmiru u organizaciji SAD i EU, on vjeruje u konačni dogovor, jer “nemamo …

Političke partije sa sjedištem u RS pozdravljaju stav Savjeta Evrope da do dogovora u BiH moraju da dođu domaći političari, dok u FBiH smatraju da je nemoguće postići sporazum bez učešća stranaca. Rajko Vasić, izvršni sekretar SNSD-a, kaže da je ovaj prilazak problemu Evrope realnost i da EU, ali i …

Moldova’s governing Alliance for European Integration has voiced its disagreement with how the European Left are perceiving the new situation developing in this republic.