November, 2009

• 13 November

  US Urges Solution to Albania Political Crises

  US Ambassador in Tirana John L Withers called on Prime Minister Sali Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama to find common ground and resolve the politcal row that has engulfed the country since the 28 June parliamentary elections. “Our position (on the parliamentary boycott) is that it would really be …

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• 13 November

  Dialogue with Brussels will be much easier when Moldova marks positive trajectory, Iurie Leanca

  The official talks on the new agreement with the EU will start on January 12, Moldova’s Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca said in a news conference held in Bucharest after a meeting with his Romanian counterpart Catalin Predoiu. “We hope the new agreement will be called association agreement and when we …

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• 13 November

  Moldovan Premier Filat to sign Minor-Traffic Convention with Romania

  Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has left for a two-day working visit to Bucharest on November 13 early morning. During the first half of Friday, he was scheduled to attend a Summit of the heads of government of Central European Initiative (CEI) member countries, during which he is to make a …

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• 13 November

  “Balkans – hub of war profiteers”

  “Not a single war crime I have processed so far was committed without a robbery,” says Serbia’s War Crime Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević. In an article published by Belgrade daily Danas, Vukčević stressed that war crimes and organized crime were “two faces of the same freak”.

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• 13 November

  Croatian President meets Pope Benedict XVI

  Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met Pope Benedict XVI for the first time on Thursday at the Vatican. Mesic and Benedict XVI discussed the situation in the region around Croatia, Croatian-EU relations, the main challenges for the future and other factors that promote stability and strengthen peace.

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• 13 November

  Plavsic’s Welcome Provokes Outrage

  The official welcome offered to Biljana Plavsic, recently released from prison having being convicted for war crimes by the UN’s War Crimes Tribunal, in the Serb-dominated part of Bosnia Republika Srpska has sparked outrage, prompting some victims of the country’s 1992-95 war to accuse Bosnian Serb leadership of fascism. “Unfortunately, …

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• 13 November

  Vladimir Voronin says he is absent from Parliament’s sittings justifiably

  Asked  why he missed several sitting of the present legislative body, the former President of Moldova said he recently had a lot of meetings with representatives of the diplomatic corps and with members of the party from districts and they coincided with the plenary sittings.

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• 13 November

  Atalay: AKP’s Kurdish initiative would ‘consolidate’ Turkey

  Interior Minister Beşir Atalay said on Friday that the government’s much-debated Kurdish initiative would not divide the country but strengthen it under the slogan “more democracy for everyone.” In his address to Parliament, he said the government’s initiative, which the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has billed as …

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• 13 November

  Georgian parliament to consider nominations for ambassador to Azerbaijan

  The Georgian parliament will begin discussions on nominees to the post of Georgian ambassador to Azerbaijan today. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili nominated earlier this week Presidential Administration Spokesman Ivan Noniashvili.

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• 13 November

  Tadić, Berlusconi open Serbia-Italy summit

  President Boris Tadić says he has received support from Italy for Greek PM Giorgios Papandreu’s plan to have all Western Balkan countries in EU in 2014. “Serbia considers EU membership to be an irreplaceable strategic goal and we expect that the Greek plan and the plan of its prime minister, …

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