Eurasia

05 November 2008 Tirana – A visiting EU official in Tirana has described Albania’s EU accession progress as “a half empty, half full glass,” after the publication the latest progress report.

05 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbian officials have expressed hope that Barack Obama’s victory in the United States Presidential Elections will lead to better relations between Washington and Belgrade.

05 November 2008 Pristina – The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says Kosovo is becoming a better place for all living there and pledged strong commitment to the EU’s new law-and-order mission, EULEX.

05 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbia could receive EU candidate status in 2009, the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday as he kicked off his one-day visit to Belgrade.

There have been harsh words for the United States from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, making his first state of the nation address.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Workgroups from Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia are due to convene in a meeting in Saint Petersburg from 17 to 19 November to discuss a feasibility study over the North-South railway, which is due to link Russia to Iran via Azerbaijan.

04 November 2008 Podgorica – Montenegro police are denying reports that those who ordered the murder of high-profile Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic and his marketing chief, Niko Franjic are Montenegrin nationals.

04 November 2008 Zagreb – Croatian police and their colleagues from Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity are trading accusations over who’s to blame for the narrow escape of a key suspect wanted over the murder of a high-profile journalist.

04 November 2008 Pristina – A Kosovo lawmaker has accused the UN Mission of preventing ethnic Albanians from returning to their homes in the Serb-dominated northern areas of Kosovo.

04 November 2008 Tirana – Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha held a two hour long marathon speech on Monday in parliament in a hearing over his ties to Bosnian businessman, Damir Fazlic.