Berlin, February 12  – Macedonia has great opportunity to join NATO, the European Union and get free visa regime by yearend, but the realization of these objectives depend substantially on the organization of forthcoming elections, German Foreign Office Minister of State Guenther Gloser said Thursday in Berlin after meeting Vice-Premier …

12 February 2009 – A senior United Nations official will meet with Serbian ministers later this month for wide-ranging discussions on Kosovo, which proclaimed its independence a year ago in a move that Serbia rejects. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for Kosovo Lamberto Zannier received an invitation to meet with …

Belgrade, 12 Feb.  – European Union enlargement commissioner Ollie Rehn on Thursday urged Belgrade to arrest and hand over the two remaining fugitive suspects charged by the United Nations’ Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The arrest and handover for trial at the Hague of former Bosnian Serb …