November, 2009

• 10 November

  Relations between Macedonia and Croatia excellent say Nikola Gruevski and Jadranka Kosor

  Relations between Macedonia and Croatia are excellent with no pending issues, Prime Ministers Nikola Gruevski and Jadranka Kosor concluded at the meeting held today. Croatia’s Prime Minister is on a visit to Macedonia. The two Prime Ministers stated that Macedonia and Croatia are both following their way of EU integration. …

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• 10 November

  Moldova’s Parliament failed to elect President

  Moldova’s Parliament failed to elect a new president for the third time this year. MPs from the Communist Party left the session after refusing to vote for the only candidate for president – Marian Lupu, leader of the Democratic Party.

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• 10 November

  Serb Minister Appeals to Kosovo Serb Loyalties

  Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo’s local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ”save” Kosovo by doing so. Bogdanovic said that: ”Those Serbs who would take part in the elections should ask themselves whether they are …

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• 10 November

  Bulgaria Parties Threaten President’s Impeachment

  Former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov’s Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, DSB, has clubbed together with the far-right Ataka party, threatening to call for impeachment of Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov. Kosovo, whose party is part of the coalition supporting the current right-of-centre GERB party, said his party would back an impeachment procedure …

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• 10 November

  Karadzic Trial Part of Belgrade Strategy to Obstruct

  Sonja Biserko said that she believes that Radovan Karadzic’s tactic to prolong his trial is part of a strategy from Belgrade to obstruct the War Crime Tribunal’s work. Sonja Biserko, director of the Helsinki Committee in Serbia, believes that the work of the Hague Tribunal has had almost no effect …

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• 9 November

  Kompromis političara uslov za napredak BiH

  Postizanje kompromisa između domaćih političara jedini je način za napredak BiH ka Evropskoj uniji i NATO-u, kazali su juče Čarls Ingliš i Bose Hedberg, američki i švedski ambasador u našoj zemlji. Ingliš je naglasio da Sjedinjene Američke Države i EU mogu i žele pomoći da BiH ispuni potrebne preduslove za …

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• 9 November

  Vienna consultation participants discuss resumption of transnistrian talks

  The participants in the consultations on Transnistrian conflict settlement, held in Vienna last Friday, discussed ways to eliminating obstacles to resuming negotiation process in 5+2 format, the OSCE press service reported. According to its news release, in Vienna the delegations agreed on the need to intensify dialog in order to …

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• 9 November

  Europe is obligated to support switch from Communism to democracy, while Moldovans should do their homework.

  Info-Prim Neo interview with Romanian MEP Sebastian Bodu – How is Moldova regarded in Brussels, especially the democracy in Moldova? – Romania has always been attentive to the changes experienced by Moldova. The April 7 events attracted a lot of attention as there were violated the principles of democracy, the …

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• 9 November

  New OSCE chief discusses mission goals

  OSCE mission chief in Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos said that the mission will work on strengthening the institutions, rule of law, regional cooperation. The Greek diplomat who took over as mission chief in September told daily Politika that none of these questions are more important than the other, because “all democratic …

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• 9 November

  Clinton: Europe did not help Bosnia

  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton told historian Taylor Branch that Europe did not do everything it could have done to help Bosnia-Herzegovina. He said that Bosnia did not receive this help because of the European fear of a Muslim state on its territory.

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