June, 2011

• 24 June

  Chisinau willing to negotiate Transnistrian settlement, without preconditions

  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Moldova, Eugen Carpov, said that “Chisinau stands for faster resumption of official negotiations on Transnistrian conflict settlement in the 5+2 format with no preconditions” at a briefing in Chisinau on Thursday on the Moscow 5+2 format consultations of June 21.

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• 24 June

  Serbian official says that Bosniak Council elections need to be held this year

  Serbian Human and Minority Rights Minister Milan Marković has said that elections for the Bosniak National Council will need to be held by the end of the year. “This is a national interest and a need of the Bosniak community and it would be best if this issue

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• 24 June

  Aleksander Mezyaev will defend Mladić

  Aleksander Mezyaev, who was on Slobodan Milošević and Vojislav Šešelj’s defense teams, will be Ratko Mladić’s defense counsel. Mezyaev has been interested in leading the defense team ever since Mladić was arrested in the village of Lazarevo.

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• 24 June

  Priština expects several agreements to be reached in July.

  Head of Priština’s team in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Edita Tahiri said she expects several agreements will be reached in July. They would refer to freedom of movement, free trade, telecommunications, energy, cadastres and birth registers, said she. Tahiri said that Kosovo has made concessions during the dialogue. 

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• 24 June

  Dodik wants a highly autonomous RS within Bosnia

  Republic of Srpska’s goal is significant autonomy up to the level of full independence within Bosnia, RS President Milorad Dodik said. He added that people of the Serb entity (RS) supported the idea.

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• 23 June

  Serbian official: UNSC should expand EULEX mandate

  Oliver Ivanović has confirmed that Serbia prepared a second, modified draft UN resolution meant to define a future probe of the Kosovo human organ trafficking. It represents Belgrade’s proposal to the UN Security Council

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• 23 June

  Serbian FM says that EU does not have new conditions

  Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić says he did not hear from EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule that a new condition for EU accession was to recognize Kosovo as independent. The minister met with Fule in Brussels on Thursday.

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• 23 June

  Croatia could wrap up EU talks this week

  Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi expects EU member states to reach an agreement on final details regarding the completion of negotiations with Croatia this week. Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, whose country

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• 23 June

  Turkey congratulates Ban’s re-election as UN chief

  Turkey has welcomed the re-election of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to lead the world’s largest body until 2016. The UN General Assembly voted unanimously on Tuesday to give Ban a second term as UN chief.

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• 23 June

  Azerbaijan and Russia ratified agreement on state borders

  Today members of the Federation Council ratified an agreement between Azerbaijan and Russia on the state borders, setting mutual national borderline points between Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia extending to the Caspian Sea. The agreement states that the line corresponds to the former administrative border between Dagestan ASSR and Azerbaijan SSR. …

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