Eurasia

BELGRADE The Serb National Council of Kosovo (SNV) official Radmila Trajković has commented on the government’s stance regarding the announced local elections in Kosovo. She said that “local self-government will have no responsibility toward Serbs” if Belgrade called for a boycott of the vote, scheduled for November. “I do not …

BELGRADE Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Dušan Janjić, said that visa liberalization is not possible for residents of Kosovo currently. He added that the reasons for this is that Serbia “has no control over the province”. Commenting on Interior Minister Ivica Dačić’s statement that the government should adopt …

Detainees from Guantanamo Bay might be relocated to Zabela prison in Pozarevac, Serbia, an anonymous source close to the Serbian government told daily Danas on Tuesday. According to the source, Serbia’s embassy in Washington has passed the prisoner transfer proposal to the US government in order to strengthen bilateral relations. …

The US does not support “any kind of partition of Kosovo”, US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said, in comments carried by Tanjug. “I can tell you that our policy remains unchanged,” local Albanian media in Pristina quoted Toner as saying. He added that the US supports the sovereignty and …

Albania should block Macedonia’s NATO accession if Skopje continues to neglect its large Albanian community, the head of an ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia says. Menduh Thaci, the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, told a Monday press conference that he considered asking Albanian Prime Minister Sali …

Another bidder has pulled out of the 3.5 billion euros project to revolutionise Kosovo’s energy sector. German utility EnBW firm and its US-based partner WGI confirmed to Balkan Insight that they are no longer interested in investing in the scheme to build a 2,000MW plant on the outskirts of Pristina.

BRUSSELS – The EU should step up aid for demining activities in Croatia, where almost a 1,000 square kilometers of suspected minefields still wait to be cleared – an effort which could take another 50 years at the current pace, an official from the most affected region. “We speak on …

Mayor asked that the project be continued as the new mud drying technology will enable to reduce the area used to store the mud and the period of time need to dry it. The State Ecological Inspectorate and the Chisinau Ecological Agency, while carrying out an inspection at the Chisinau …

He underlined that Moscow wants Tiraspol and Chisinau to arrive at consensus on the form of peaceful coexistence. Russia behaves actively and consecutively in the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the NATO Dmitri Rogozin considers. In his on-line interview for “Kommersant.ru” he remarked that the fratricidal …

Representatives of the four parties expressed their concern with the orders given by the Communist leaders to the Government to spend all the money, which remains in the budget, as soon as possible. The new coalition stakes on support on the part of external creditors, the leaders of the four …