Eurasia

UNMIK has reminded EULEX that under resolution 1244 it remains in control of its former headquarters in central Prishtina, now the home of EULEX police. Senior officials at the UN mission wrote to EULEX following rumours that the EU rule-of-law mission was planning to hand UNMIK’s former headquarters to Kosovo’s …

Interpol has recalled arrest warrants against a group of Bosnian war-time leaders, who have been accused by Serbia of war crimes, media reported on Friday, quoting Bosnian government officials. The announcement triggered strong criticism among Bosnian Serb officials, some of whom accused Interpol of being “hostile” towards Serbs.

Albania’s former Deputy Transport Minister Nikolin Jaka, was found innocent by an an appeals court in Tirana on Wednesday, after formerly being convicted of illegally influencing a public tender. Jaka was charged in September 2007 with illegally fixing a series of tenders for road projects, and back then was sentenced …

The trial of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Vasil Tupurkovski was unfair and a clear example of a corrupt judiciary, the Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights said in a case study. This case illustrates the “internal decay” in the judiciary. It is “incapacitated… by sheer fear and by elementary …

The Union for Human Rights, PBDNJ, which represents the ethnic Greek minority in Albania, rejected on Thursday speculation that it will return to the governing coalition of Prime Minister Sali Berisha after Sunday’s parliamentary elections. “We will not change our position,” said in a press conference, the party boss Vangjel …

The Serbian government annouced that the November 15 elections in Kosovo have no validity and called upon Serbs in Kosovo not to vote. Svetozar Ciplic, Serbian Minister for Human and Minority Rights, told media at a new conference on Thursday that no conditions existed for Serbs to vote. “The Serbian …

Vasko Naumovski,professor at the International Law Department with the New York University, is likely to take over the post of Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Macedonia’s EU integration local media cite unnamed sources from the ruling party as saying. Naumovski will be officially appointed next week, sources from the …

Voter turnout in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on Sunday will be between 55 and 60 per cent, according to polling agency Gallup, the latest agency to predict that more people will vote in the country’s national elections than in the European Parliamentary poll. Official figures put the turnout in the country’s …

Greece’s President Karolos Papoulias, during a trip to Belgrade, told media on Thursday that Greece gives Serbia its full support to European integration, hoping that the visa liberalisation process for Serbian citizens would be resolved by the end of the year. At a news conference with his Serbian counterpart Boris …

FOR months the opinion polls suggested that Albania’s election would be close. Most pundits said they were wrong, because respondents were giving unreliable answers. Now Albanian opinion polling has come of age. So close was the June 28th election that, four days later, the result was still unclear. Albania faces …