The situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be the main topic of the meeting of Georgian Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be held in Brussels today.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is to attend the celebrations in honor of Saint Sava in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. Jeremic arrives at the invitation of bishop Joanikije of Budim and Niksic. The Montenegrin foreign ministry is officially informed about the Serbian foreign minister’s visit.

The Bulgarian Business Association took a decision to block the Ilinden and Kulata boarded checkpoints on February 1 in response to the protests of Greek agricultural producers along the Bulgarian – Greek boarder, the Chairman of the association Svetlozar Nikolov announced.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, Serge Brammertz, says that the most wanted fugitives in the region, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, are hiding on Serbian soil. “On the basis of information received from Serbia we have no reason to believe that they …

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas confirmed that he will meet his Macedonia counterpart Antonio Milososki later on Wednesday at the sidelines of the international conference on Afghanistan being held in London. This meeting was announced in the latest press release by the Greek Foreign Ministry issued late Tuesday.

Negative political trends in Bosnia must be taken very seriously and require the urgent attention of the European Union, the international community’s High Representative to Bosnia Valentin Inzko said. “In the last four years Bosnia has been in a political stalemate…not a single new reform has been adopted that would …

BRISEL, SARAJEVO, BANJALUKA Ministri vanjskih poslova EU upozorili su političke predstavnike u BiH da ne osporavaju autoritet visokog predstavnika međunarodne zajednice za BiH te da provode njegove odluke. Vijeće EU na istoj je sjednici odlučilo da produži mandat svoje vojne misije u BiH. “EU podvlači svoju potpuno opredijeljenost teritorijalnom integritetu …

Croatia wrote a letter to the UN Security Council stating that Serbian President Boris Tadić’s address regarding this country was “unfounded.” Croatia believes that Tadić “used the Kosovo debate” to make an “unfounded response” to outgoing Croat President Stjepan Mesić’s statements that he would intervene militarily against Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Spanish ambassador Inigo de Palacio Espana said that there is no confirmed date for forwarding Serbia’s candidacy application to the EUCouncil of Ministers. “The EU-Serbia meeting will include political dialogue, not a formal meeting and it is hard to say whether there will be a conclusion reached for the date …

European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee will discuss the draft-resolution regarding Croatia’s progress towards EU on Tuesday. The Committee is due to discuss the 50 amendments submitted by the EP rapporteur for Hannes Swoboda. The committee members will vote on Wednesday. Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will address the Committee, before the …