September, 2011

• 26 September

  Belgrade-Pristina expected on Tuesday

  The new round of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina are expected to take place in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. Telecommunications, energy and Kosovo’s participation in regional meetings and initiatives will be up for discussion. The sources refuse to say whether the agenda will include a discussion of the situation …

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• 26 September

  Bosnian political leaders meet to surpass the crisis

  Bosnia’s political leaders were to meet on Monday in a bid to resolve the most serious post-war crisis in the country that still has no government almost a year after general elections. After several failed attempts to form a central government in the country divided along ethnic lines into two …

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• 26 September

  Turkey prepares sanctions on Syria

  Turkey’s sanctions against Syrian government mainly target bilateral economic, military, political and banking ties in order not to effect its people. Turkey’s sanctions against Syria, which will likely be announced in early October, will be as comprehensive as possible and will be shaped so as not to hurt the country’s …

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• 26 September

  Russian PM Vladimir Putin will visit Serbia in October

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is planning on visiting Belgrade for the second time this year, daily Danas has learned from top Serbian officials. The Russian prime minister officially visited Serbia on March 23, when he spoke to Serbian

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• 26 September

  Haradinaj trial moves on

  Trial of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj continued on Monday in the Hague Tribunal after three weeks. A protected witness said that “Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK)”, i.e. the 134th brigade had entered Kosovo in June 1998 to fight against Serbian paramilitary forces.

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• 26 September

  Bosnia and Herzegovina could lose visa-free status, due to large number of asylum seekers

  The Commission has confirmed reports that citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an EU hopeful for which Brussels lifted visa requirements in November 2010, could again be subjected to the cumbersome procedure, due to the large number of asylum-seekers from this country.

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• 26 September

  Bulgaria supports Balkan countries to join EU

  The Balkans will only become a permanently stable region when all the countries that comprised the former Yugoslavia are accepted as members of the European Union, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly. 

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• 26 September

  Azerbaijan could start gas deliveries to Bulgaria and South East Europe in 2013

  Bulgaria may receive its first gas deliveries from Azerbaijan in 2013, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said after a meeting with his Azeri counterpart Natig Aliyev in Baku. Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) and Greece’s power utility DEPA have pledged to complete the gas inter-connection between Bulgaria and Greece in …

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• 26 September

  Kosovo minister says Belgrade is fulfilling the trade agreement

  Serbian customs officials are respecting the new deal on trade exports from Kosovo but Kosovo businesses have yet to take advantage of the new market, Kosovo Trade and Industry Minister Mimoza Kusari-Lila has said. Kusari-Lila said that seven trucks carrying Kosovo-made products had been allowed to enter Serbia, which had …

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• 26 September

  Albania seeks for Kosovo recognition from Libya’s NTC

  Albanian Foreign Minister Edmond Haxhinasto has asked the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, Muhammad Jibril, to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, when the government is formed in Tripoli. Haxhinasto and Jibril met on Friday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in …

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