Eurasia Press & News
Brussels, February 12 – Macedonia’s commitment and determination to remain loyal to its objective and pledge for full-fledged integration to NATO is the main message that was conveyed by country’s Foreign and Defense Ministers – Antonio Milososki and Zoran Konjanovski – to Alliance’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at …
Read More »Free visa regime for Macedonia by yearend if it organizes successful elections
Berlin, February 12 – Macedonia has great opportunity to join NATO, the European Union and get free visa regime by yearend, but the realization of these objectives depend substantially on the organization of forthcoming elections, German Foreign Office Minister of State Guenther Gloser said Thursday in Berlin after meeting Vice-Premier …
Read More »Senior UN official to go to Serbia for more talks on Kosovo
12 February 2009 – A senior United Nations official will meet with Serbian ministers later this month for wide-ranging discussions on Kosovo, which proclaimed its independence a year ago in a move that Serbia rejects. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for Kosovo Lamberto Zannier received an invitation to meet with …
Read More »Serbia: EU urges arrest of fugitive war crimes suspects
Belgrade, 12 Feb. – European Union enlargement commissioner Ollie Rehn on Thursday urged Belgrade to arrest and hand over the two remaining fugitive suspects charged by the United Nations’ Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The arrest and handover for trial at the Hague of former Bosnian Serb …
Read More »T-Mobile to invest 180 million euros in Macedonia
Germany’s mobile operator T-Mobile and its landline operator T-Home planned on Thursday to invest 180million euros (about 231 million U.S. dollars) in Macedonia in the next three years. Macedonia Telecom’s CEO Nikolai Beckers said T-Home’s investment plan has already been drawn up, while T-Mobile’s plan has entered the final stage …
Read More »Balkans Biggest Threat Of Instability In Europe – US Intel
WASHINGTON -The Balkans pose the greatest threat of instability in Europe in 2009, according to an annual threat assessment presented Thursday by U.S. intelligence director Dennis Blair. The report said the principal challenge will come from the unresolved political status of the Serb minority in Kosovo, and the uneasy interethnic …
Read More »Returning expats bring skills to rebuild Balkans
BELGRADE – When Nina Ivancev, 38, left Serbia for Australia in 1993, she was convinced she would never return to what was then a pariah state embroiled in Balkan wars. Now she is back, and finds it more stable than richer places. Ivancev was one of millions who left Yugoslavia …
Read More »Nimetz Seeks Good Will From Macedonia, Greece
Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations mediator in the Athens- Skopje “name” talks, did not table a new proposal at a Wednesday meeting with negotiators from the two countries, but asked both sides to strive for a positive atmosphere. Nimetz agreed with Macedonian and Greek representatives, Zoran Jolevski and Ademantios Vassilakis, …
Read More »Feith Raps Kosovo Govt For Reform Delays
Peter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo and European Union Special Representative, criticized Kosovo’s institutions for lagging behind in key reforms needed to guarantee progress in the new country. Feith spoke during a debate in the European Parliaments’ foreign affairs committee on the occasion of the …
Read More »World Bank Starts New Probe On Albania Project
The World Bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, has ordered a new investigation to find out who was responsible for attempts at a cover-up of a Bank misstep in 2006-07 that led to the demolition of a village in southern Albania. An internal inspection panel report of the International Development Association, IDA, …
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