Serbian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy Council President Sonja Liht said Thursday she believed Serbia would get the EU candidate status. She said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statements during her recent visit to Belgrade constituted a list of wishes, some of which could be fulfilled, while others

New Macedonian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Poposki is expected in Sofia September 1 on a visit that it is hoped will warm up tense relation between the two neighbors. The first international visits of Minister Poposki will be in the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro.

The Turkish military says 100 PKK members have been killed, while more than 80 others have been wounded during air and artillery strikes in northern Iraq. Up to 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have been killed in raids conducted by the Turkish military in northern …