January, 2011

• 19 January

  BiH parliamentary parties to meet again in 15 days

  The leaders of 12 parties represented in the BiH state-level parliament decided on Monday (January 17th) to meet again in 15 days, the parliament’s interim Chairman Adnan Basic said. He confirmed a meeting held earlier in the day ended with no breakthroughs. Within the next two weeks, the parties are …

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• 19 January

  Transnational Networks and State-Building in the Balkans

  Informality allows people to change their immediate circumstances for the better, but it locks the state and society in a vicious circle of reproduction of a weak state, promising insecurity for the majority and prosperity for the few, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova write for openDemocracy. To deflect criticism for …

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• 18 January

  Turkish PM to visit Kyrgyzstan

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan at the beginning of February to discuss bilateral economic cooperation. A business forum Turkey-Kyrgyzstan will be held during the visit.

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• 18 January

  Albanian parliament approves new ministry changes

  Albania’s parliament approved on Monday two appointments to fill cabinet posts of deputy prime minister and economy minister. In a 72-0 vote, lawmakers in the 140-seat parliament endorsed the appointment

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• 18 January

  EULEX prosecutor Isabelle Arnal visits Albania

  Prosecutor of the EULEX Mission in Kosovo Isabelle Arnal conferred Monday in Tirana with Albanian colleagues. They talked about starting an investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania

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• 18 January

  Serbian SAA vote postponed

  The European Parliament (EP) has postponed a plenary session vote today, that was to ratify EU’s Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia. The voting was rescheduled for Wednesday for technical reasons. The EP, which is in session until Thursday, will hold a debate and then vote to ratify the …

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• 18 January

  Turkey and Greece to hold new talks in Ankara on Wednesday

  Turkey and Greece will hold a new round of exploratory talks, Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. The 49th round of exploratory talks between the two countries will take place in Ankara on Wednesday.

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• 18 January

  Srebrenica suspect was arrested in Israel

  Police in Israel have arrested a Bosnian man suspected of participating in the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. Cvetkovic, 43, was arrested today by Israel’s National Unit for the Investigation of Serious and International Crime.

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• 18 January

  Miroslav Milojevic becomes deputy head of UN mission in Cyprus

  Miroslav Milojevic, representing Republika Srpska’s Interior Ministry, takes over the post of deputy head of the UN mission in Cyprus on Monday (January 17th). Milojevic has been serving within the mission since May 2009.

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• 18 January

  Preliminary results from snap elections in BiH municipalities released

  Voters in eight municipalities turned out on Sunday (January 16th) for snap local elections. According to preliminary results, Albin Muslic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 53.7 % of the votes in the Bihac

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