January, 2012

• 9 January

  Moldovian President pleased after Transnistrian leader’s pledge to ease border controls

  Moldova’s acting President Marian Lupu says he is encouraged by pledges from the new leader of the country’s breakaway Transdniester region to ease border controls. Yevgeny Shevchuk, who won a runoff presidential election

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• 9 January

  Afghanistan will move embassy from Bulgaria to Greece

  Afghanistan would shut its embassy in Bulgaria and open a mission in Greece in a few months to assist thousand of illegal migrants in that country, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday. The embassy in Athens would open by the end of March to address …

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• 9 January

  Republika Srpska celebrates 20th year anniversary

  Bosnia’s predominantly Serb entity is celebrating twenty years since its creation on Monday, with the Serbian president and other top politicians set to make appearances. Republika Srpska, one of the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, is celebrating its founding on Monday

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• 9 January

  Skopje prepares for upcoming name talks with Greece

  Macedonia will lean on the world court ruling related to its name dispute with Greece at the forthcoming UN talks with Athens. Skopje planned to use the ruling in the next set of talks, scheduled for January.  

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December, 2011

• 28 December

  EU facilitator for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue not satisfied with results

  I expect a new Belgrade- Priština meeting to be held in January and I believe that an agreement is already close, EU facilitator Robert Cooper has stated. When asked whether he was satisfied with the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, Cooper said that he was not. 

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• 28 December

  Turkey approves South Stream pipeline construction

  Turkey on Wednesday has allowed Russia to construct South Stream gas pipeline under the Black Sea. At the beginning of December Russia and Turkey discussed many energy issues, including the South Stream project. Ankara was delaying the construction permit in its territorial waters.

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• 28 December

  Serbia keeps same Kosovo and EU policy

  Serbia’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković says that the government “will absolutely stay on the EU and Kosovo course“. He added that both the EU and Kosovo policy had not failed.

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• 28 December

  U.S. extradites war crimes suspect in 1990s

  The United States on Tuesday extradited a Muslim Bosnian woman suspected of killing six Croats in 1993 during a war that ripped the region apart, the prosecutor’s office in Sarajevo, Bosnia, said. The woman, Rasema Handanovic, 39, is suspected of taking part in the mass killings of Croatian civilians in …

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• 28 December

  Russia to claim Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipe expenses from Bulgaria

  Russia will take all legal measures available to make Bulgaria pay indemnities over the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project, said Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko. Earlier in December, the Bulgarian government said it will leave the project, which

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• 22 December

  Georgian appoints new ambassadors to Greece and Romania

  The Georgian Parliament approved the candidacies of new ambassadors to Greece and Romania on Tuesday. President of Georgia introduced his nominees David Bakradze to Greece and Ilia Giorgadze to Romania to the parliament’s approval. The candidates were interviewed in the committees of the legislative body before they pass approval at …

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