Kosovo’s premier Hashim Thaci appointed Ylber Hysa as the government’s coordinator of the strategy for Mitrovica North.

Recalling that in 2008 he had said that Bulgaria could be the backbone of a stable prosperous region, European Commission President Jose Barroso told journalists in Brussels on February 23 2010: “I believe this is truer than ever before”.

Serbian Ambassador to Montenegro Zoran Lutovac returned on Tuesday evening to his office in Podgorica. He was called back to Belgrade in mid-January following a decision by the Montenegrin government to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo.