July, 2009

• 17 July

  Rebel leader says West must accept Abkhaz state

  SUKHUMI Nearly a year after Georgia’s war with Russia, the leader of Georgia’s biggest rebel region is determined Tbilisi will never rule his land again.Shrugging off international calls for Georgia’s territorial integrity to be respected, de facto Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh told Reuters in an interview that the West needed …

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• 17 July

  Georgia ready to enlarge cargo transit to Afghanistan 4- or 5-fold

  A working meeting on motor traffic from Europe to Afghanistan via the Caucasus took place in Tbilisi on Friday in the attendance of Georgian Economic Development Minister Lasha Zhvania, European experts, representatives of international organizations and the U.S. Department of Commerce. 

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• 17 July

  Romania, Serbia, Hungary to hold meeting of FMs

  BUCHAREST Foreign ministers of Romania, Serbia and Hungary will gather on Saturday for the fourth ministerial meeting in Timisoara in western Romania. The meeting will be attended by Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and Hungarian Foreign Minister Balazs Peter.

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• 17 July

  Romania Gets $423 Million From World Bank to Weather Crisis

  Romania, which received a 20 billion-euro ($28 billion) bailout led by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, got a further $423 million loan from the World Bank to weather the financial crisis. 

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• 17 July

  Moldova asks EU to stop Romanian “interference”

  Moldova asked the European Union on Thursday to take action to stop what it said was Romanian interference in its affairs.Romanian President Traian Basescu has angered Moldova’s leaders by backing the country’s liberal opposition in a parliamentary election set for July 29.

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• 17 July

  Iraq to pump 15 bln cubic meters of gas through Nabucco pipeline – Stanishev

  SOFIA Bulgaria’s outgoing Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev announced on Friday that Iraq pledged to pump 15 billion cubic meters of gas through Nabucco pipeline starting from 2014-2015.

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• 17 July

  Bulgaria’s Parliament moves to limit MP ‘migration’

  Bulgaria’s new Parliament is only at the stage of laying down the rules that will govern the legislature’s work for the rest of its term, but the major parties have already had their first major clash. The issue that irked the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the predominantly ethnic Turk …

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• 17 July

  Dnevnik: Nobody wants Bulgarian passports

  SKOPJE The liberalization of the visa regime stopped the applications of Macedonian citizens for Bulgarian citizenship, the number of which assumed dangerous proportions, the Macedonian Dnevnik newspaper writes. Over the last days the announcements in media about mediation in acquiring Bulgarian citizenship are few and the number of people, who …

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• 17 July

  Albania’s SP blames government for Schengen exclusion

  TIRANA, Albania The opposition Socialist Party (SP) blamed the government Thursday (July 16th) for failing to meet EU standards for achieving visa-free travel to member countries. Three other Balkan countries did make it onto the so-called White Schengen List.

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• 17 July

  Croatia, US join forces against organised crime

  ZAGREB, Croatia Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko and US Ambassador to Croatia Robert Bradtke signed a memorandum for co-operation Thursday (July 16th) in the fight against organised crime. According to the document, the two countries will join efforts in terms of both prevention and crime-fighting and will co-operate in staff training …

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