SARAJEVO Sigurnosne agencije u Bosni i Hercegovini nadgledaju organizacije koje se povezuju s radikalizmom i zabranit će njihov rad ukoliko izađu iz zakonskog okvira. Izjavio je to Sadik Ahmetović, ministar sigurnosti BiH, u četvrtak na međunarodnoj ministarskoj konferenciji “Interkulturalni dijalog i unutrašnja sigurnost”, održanoj u Sarajevu. “Namjera nam je da …

The UN war crimes tribunal turned down on Wednesday  an early release request from convicted war criminal Mladjo Radic. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2001 for crimes against Bosniaks committed during the 1992-1995 conflict, specifically the torture and killings of non-Serbs in the Omarska detention camp …

The NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will travel to Tirana on 29 April 2010. He will meet with Albania’s President Bamir Topi, with Prime Minister Sali Berisha, with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilir Meta and with Minister of Defense Arben Imami. The Secretary General will also meet with the …

Kosovo will attend the EU-Balkans summit in June only if the participants are equally represented, Spokesperson for Kosovo’s President Xhavit Beqiri said. If there are state symbols or flags, then Kosovo should enjoy the same privileges. If participants are identified by their names, that’s acceptable for

After holding separate meetings with negotiators Zoran Jolevski and Adamantios Vasilakis, UN mediator in Macedonian-Greek name dispute Matthew Nimetz met with UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon.

The Moldovan delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has called upon the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg to delegate a mission to Moldova’s Transnistrian region so as to help the Moldovan authorities release journalist Ernest Vardanyan from custody in Tiraspol.

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina met on Wednesday in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Ahmet Davutoglu, Gordan Jandroković and Sven Alkalaj agreed that the relations between these three countries are of strategic importance for the improvement of the general situation in southeastern Europe.

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković met with Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias in Athens on Thursday. Cvetković and Christofias are taking part in a conference in Athens, Greece, organized by the Economist magazine. Cvetković thanked Christofias for Cyprus’s support to Serbia’s EU pathway, and to the preservation of the country’s sovereignty …

Albanian officials have approved Vele Trpevski as the new Macedonian ambassador to Albania, the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed. Trpevski’s nomination was met with controversy due to his young age and apparent inexperience in diplomatic work.

Moldova’s Interim President Mihai Ghimpu said on Wednesday that Romanian president’s earlier visit to Chisinau and his ongoing visit to Romania have both opened a new chapter in the history of the bilateral relations. “I hope that these two days have quelled those who did not want to believe that …