July, 2009

• 6 July

  Croatia To Name First Woman as PM

  Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has mandated former Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor to form a new centre-right coalition government following the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader last week. “Jadranka Kosor has shown evidence that states that she has the needed majority support in the current assembly,” news agencies …

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• 6 July

  UN “Name” Mediator Visits Skopje

  Matthew Nimetz, the UN mediator in the Greek-Macedonia “name” talks, arrives in Skopje today to commence a fresh round of consultations on a dispute that has kept the country from NATO membership. Media speculate that the UN mediator will not bring any new name proposals for Macedonia to the table.

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• 6 July

  Bosnian Serbs Want to Vote in Serbian Poll

  Milorad Dodik, prime minister of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska, has told Serbian media that Bosnian Serbs are hoping to play an active role in Serbia’s next parliamentary elections. “We are not seeking integration that would mean major participation in Serbia’s political life, but we’d like for our people …

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• 6 July

  Macedonia Parties Reject Unity Govt

  Macedonia’s ruling VMRO-DPMNE party and the country’s largest opposition movement, the Social Democrats, have ruled out the formation of a government of national unity. The unity administration proposal was raised Friday by a smaller opposition movement, the New Social Democrats, NSDP. 

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• 6 July

  Serb Progressive Party Forms EU Integration Council

  The Opposition Serb Progressive Party, SNS, will open a Council for EU Integration, Tomislav Nikolic, leader of the party, announced on Thursday in Brussels. Nikolic met in the EU capital with European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and EC Director for Western Balkans Pierre Mirel to discuss ways in which the …

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• 5 July

  IAEA To Help Serbia Decommission Nuclear Reactor

  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will help Serbia ship tonnes of spent nuclear fuel to Russia and decommission its research reactor, IAEA’s outgoing chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Friday. The Vinca Nuclear Institute, 17 km (11 miles) southeast of Belgrade, will ship 2.5 tonnes of spent fuel rods and …

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• 5 July

  Bosnia Court Jails Ex-Serb Commander For 18 Years

  Bosnia’s war crimes court jailed a Bosnian Serb wartime army commander on Friday for 18 years for the killing, rape and torture of Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war. “Momir Savic was found guilty of persecution, murder, imprisonment, rape, torture and other inhuman acts against Bosnian Muslim …

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• 5 July

  Ukraine continues to sell military hardware to Georgia receiving 800 million dollars of profit

  Ukraine has received about $800 million of profit from the export of arms in 2008. Sergey Bondarchuk, the chairman of the state-run company Ukrspetsexport, said that the nation’s arms export in 2007 brought the profit of $700 million and nearly $800 million – in 2008. Ukraine has recently expanded the …

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• 5 July

  Albania opposition alleges foul play in vote count

  TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists charged yesterday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country’s lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week’s national election were tallied. 

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• 5 July

  Governing Party in Albania Seeks to Assemble a Coalition

  TIRANA, Albania nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature.

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