February, 2010

• 3 February

  Papoulias wins second term as Greek president

  Greek President Karolos Papoulias was re-elected for a second five-year term in office Wednesday after winning majority support in a parliamentary vote.

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• 3 February

  Kosovo seeks UK support to Kosovo’s UN membership

  Kosovo Parliament Speaker Jakup Krasniqi called on Britain to continue to support Kosovo’s efforts to join the United Nations and other international organizations. During his stay in London, Krasniqi met with House of Commons Speaker John Berkow. Krasniqi called on British government to hail the strategy of the authorities in …

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• 3 February

  New PACE President’s first visit will be to Moldova

  The newly elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay his first official visit after his appointment to Moldova, the head of the Moldovan delegation to this organization Ana Gutu said Tuesday.

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• 3 February

  Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos: “The integration of the Western Balkans into the EU is one of the Spanish presidency’s priorities”

  Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos says the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU is one of the Spanish presidency’s priorities. Moratinos said that Spain expects that the EU member-states will be able to unfreeze the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia by June. The agreement was signed …

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• 3 February

  Georgia will not send monitors to Ukraine for 2nd round of elections

  Georgia will not send observers to Ukraine to monitor the second round of presidential elections, Georgian presidential press secretary Manana Manjgaladze said.

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• 3 February

  Azerbaijan can export oil, gas to Romania and EU

  Romania and Azerbaijan have signed Tuesday a memorandum on co-operation in the energy sector through which the Azerbaijan company can export oil and gas to Romania and EU SOCAR can export oil and gas to the European Union, including Romania, the director of the economy ministry Koreliu Kondoia, who is …

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• 3 February

  Georgian President to pay a visit to Romania in the spring

  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will pay a visit to Romania in the spring, the spokesperson of the President Manana Manjgaladze announced. This has been announced after the spokesperson explained why the President will not attend the International Security Conference in Munich. The Georgian President has been invited January to attend …

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• 3 February

  Bulgarian MPs: “Nabucco agreement is a result of many governments’ work”

  We cannot miss saying that this is some long-awaited agreement. It is a result of the work of many governments since 2002 till now, MP Ramadan Atalay from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party said, commenting on the ratification of the Nabucco Agreement.

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• 3 February

  Bulgarian parliament ratifies Nabucco Agreement

  Bulgarian MPs passed the draft bill for ratification of the Agreement among Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey on the construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline project. The draft bill on the ratification of the Nabucco Agreement has been passed with 156 votes.

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• 3 February

  Bosnian police arrest war crimes suspect

  Bosnian Police arrested on Monday (February 1st) a former Muslim commander suspected of committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. Zulfikar Alispago allegedly did not take appropriate measures to punish subordinates who committed war crimes in the village of Trusina, near Konjic, on …

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