The Montenegrin Foreign Ministry announced on Monday it would back Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić in his run for president of the UN General Assembly. Ministry’s director of multilateral and regional cooperation Zoran Janković said Podgorica

The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the Crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort will arrive in Yerevan today. He will meet President Serzh Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan.

United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton is to visit Sofia on February 5 2012 at the invitation of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov, the Foreign Ministry said. During her visit, Clinton will meet President Rossen

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s regular quarterly report on Kosovo will be presented at UN Security Council meeting on February 8. The last UNSC session on Kosovo, held late in November, was marked by a heated discussion between the U.S., Great Britain, France and Germany on one side, who called …

The Georgian side agreed to allot the site for the construction of a new mosque, Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertugrul Gunay said at a meeting with Georgian Minister of Culture Nika Rurua in Ankara. “We want to intensify the cooperation in the sphere of tourism

Parliament in non-eurozone Bulgaria voted Friday to join an EU budget pact for tighter discipline but with conditions regarding tax policy and exemption from certain financial obligations. “Bulgaria’s parliament supports joining the treaty on stability, coordination and

The dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will continue in the beginning of February. An agreement on Kosovo’s participation in regional forums is expected to be reached in the beginning of next month. The decision should present a compromise between the firm positions of the two countries.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha says Albania will sign an agreement with the EU law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, to institutionalize cooperation on the investigation into organ harvesting allegations. According to a statement, Prime Minister Berisha “agreed fully on the need to sign an agreement or

European Union economics commissioner Olli Rehn said euro-zone governments may have to increase their contribution to Greece’s debt deal and declared he was hopeful agreements could be struck soon to increase euro-zone bailout funds and International Monetary Fund resources. 

A debate on Russia’s recent elections will be held at the PACE meeting on Thursday attended by the Georgian delegation led by parliamentary majority leader Petre Tsiskarishvili. The issue of holding a debate on Russia was discussed