Georgian Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze believes the time has come to the Council of Europe (CE) to protect its own prestige and to force Russia to fulfill the CE resolution. Bakradze said at his meeting with PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteur Matias Yorsh.

According to preliminary results released by the Central Election Commission, CEC, the mayoral candidate from the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, Haki Rugova, won 48.7 per cent of the vote in the Istog/Istok mayoral elections held on Sunday, April 11.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced on Monday in Tirana that the EU will announce the visa liberalisation decision for Albania on July 2 at the Sarajevo summit.