The meeting is to be held between political leaders and businessmen of the Western Balkan countries and the current and potential partners from the U.S., and Serbia has opted not to participate of attendance of Kosovo Albanian representatives. 

US Vice President Joe Biden yesterday made the highest-ranking US visit ever to Moldova, signalling Washington’s support for pro-Western reforms in Europe’s poorest country. Biden told Moldova’s liberal leaders its future lay with Europe and showed support for their efforts to end a protracted political and economic crisis. “We are …

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, is starting his trip to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia next today to meet government leaders and representatives of political parties to discuss OSCE work in the region and the Lithuanian Chairmanship’s priorities for 2011.