Eurasia

A separate item on the agenda is the continuation of the multilateral cooperation between Georgia and the CIS following this country’s withdrawal from the organization. The Meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council will take place in Chisinau on Thursday, October 8. Ministers from the 11 member states of the …

EU Special Envoy to Kosovo Pieter Feith has called on Serbs to participate in the local elections in Kosovo scheduled for November 15. Feith expects higher turnout in this election, adding that the results will have to be honored. “According to polls, we expect higher turnout this time round. The …

European Parliament Rapporteur for Bosnia-Herzegovina Doris Pack says that Milorad Dodik refuses to listen to any advice and that he is “obstinate.” “Milorad Dodik is so obstinate that I don’t think anyone can bring to bear on him or the moves he has in his head, let alone persuade him …

The CIS Council of the heads of state is going to consider nearly 20 documents pertaining to cooperation between the member states. The CIS Summit will be held in the Moldovan capital next Friday in the absence of the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that the countries of the Western Balkans have not a second to waste now that the Irish have adopted the Lisbon Treaty. After meeting with a number of foreign ministers in Budapest, Jeremić said that a summit of the European Union and Western Balkan countries …

SERBIA The Parliamentary Legislative Committee says that the draft law on the transfer of Vojvodina’s authorities is ready. The bill, which is necessary for the Vojvodina statute to be enacted, will come before the government for adoption very soon. The Vojvodina statute was enacted by the provincial assembly and passed …

Filat said that the Government will implement a legal norm on regionalization resulting from Moldova’s commitments to the European organizations. Moldova’s Prime Minister promised the Bashkan of Gagauzia Mihail Formuzal that the Autonomous Territorial Unit will be offered autonomy in accordance with the law. At a meeting with district heads …

The third report that assesses the fulfillment of key priorities of the Accession Partnership between the European Union and Macedonia will be presented in Skopje on Wednesday. The report, drafted in the framework of the project Accession Watch related to the period July-September 2009. The project is implemented by Macedonian …

Albanian Academy of Science has finally come up with its own stance on the newly-published Macedonian encyclopedia which triggered an avalanche of reactions in Albania.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Tuesday his country is ready to hold talks and cooperate with Russia and is unwilling to see a fresh military conflict.   The military attacks Georgia launched last August against Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, was legitimate, Saakashvili said.