October, 2009

• 7 October

  Montenegro will not join WTO this year

  Montenegro will not become member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) this year, the Montenegrin online edition pcnen.com reports. That became clear after the failure of the third stage of the bilateral talks with Ukraine in relation to the other controversial issues in this process.

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• 7 October

  Biden to visit Poland, Romania, Czech Republic

  Vice President Joe Biden will visit Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic this month, the White House said on Tuesday, amid fresh concerns over the U.S. commitment to eastern Europe’s defence. Biden will visit the three NATO allies from October 20-24 and meet with heads of state and government, parliamentary …

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• 7 October

  Athens, Skopje Deal Achievable

  Athens and Skopje could reach a deal on their name row if they focus solely on finding a compromise appelation, Macedonia’s President Georgi Ivanov says. “Various non negotiable issues, such as Macedonian identity and language […] were included in the past talks,” Ivanov told the chief editors of German media …

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• 7 October

  Russia to Support Serbia at ICJ

  Russia will defiantly support Serbia at the International Court of Justice’s hearing on Kosovo’s declaration of independence, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. Serbia filed a case against Kosovo after its unilateral declaration of independence in February 2008. The International Court of Justice hearing, which is to probe the legitimacy, or …

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• 7 October

  EC Urged to Expand Visa-Free Scheme

  The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has urged the European Commission, EC, to change its plan for visa-liberalisation in the Balkans. The committee asked the EC to tentatively add Albania and Bosnia to the White Schengen list, pending the fulfillment of benchmarks, and to urgently open talks on the visa …

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• 7 October

  IMF to Help Serbia, if it Reforms

  The governor of the National Bank of Serbia, Radovan Jelasic, says that the IMF is ready to help Serbia, but “only if there is serious reform”. Following the conclusion of the annual IMF-World Bank meetings in Istanbul, the Serbian government has less than three weeks to decide on how to …

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• 7 October

  Albania and Serbia in Diplomatic Flirtation

  Albania’s Foreign Minister Ilir Meta and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic, have agreed to strengthen cooperation between their two countries. The pair’s meeting came on the sidelines of a regional conference of the so-called Visegrad states in Budapest on Tuesday, and was followed by a joint press conference. While the …

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• 6 October

  Mufti: Religious rights threatened

  Chief mufti of the Islamic Community in Serbia, Muamer Zukorlić, has told EP Rapporteur Jelko Kacin that the rights of Serbian Muslims are in danger. Zukorlić met with Kacin in Slovenia to gave him a detailed report on the state of religious rights in Serbia, especially the “unlawful behavior of …

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• 6 October

  NGO to release victim census for Kosovo

  The Humanitarian Law Center will present to victims’ families the results of their census of dead and missing persons in Kosovo from January 1998 to Dec. 2000. According to the center, 13,321 individuals were killed, wounded or went missing during the armed conflicts in Kosovo in the period from January …

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• 6 October

  Previous administration of Interior Ministry was excessively politicized, Victor Catan

  MOLDOVA The major reforms will center on the certification of the personnel and liquidation of corruption pyramids inside the Ministry, the Minister of the Interior told. The new Minister of the Interior wants to improve the reputation of the police in the society. According to Victor Catan, the image of …

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