December, 2009

• 3 December

  Bosnian leaders on Steinberg visit

  RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and other political leaders in Bosnia met yesterday with U.S. deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. Dodik, who heads the government of the Serb entity, said after the meeting that solutions would not be imposed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and that Bosnian leaders would have to reach …

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Greece: New government, same position

  Greece’s new socialist government has announced they would continue to block Macedonia’s admission negotiations with the EU. The reason for this is the long-standing dispute over the name of Greece’s northern neighbor.

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Macedonia’s Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska to visit Kosovo

  Macedonia’s Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska will pay official visit to Kosovo on Thursday. Jankuloska is scheduled to meet her Kosovo counterpart Interior Minister Zenun Pajaziti. The two ministers are expected to sign a memorandum on police cooperation between the two countries.

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Macedonia won’t impose visa obligations on Albania

  Macedonia will not introduce visa requirements on Albania’s citizens following the EU’s decision to exempt Macedonian citizens from visa obligations when travelling to EU countries.

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Papoulias: Kosovo’s independence declared too early

  Kosovo’s declaration of independence was made too early, and countries that don’t recognize Kosovo are actually safeguarding their own national interests, Greek President Carolos Papoulias said.

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Karadzic challenges appointment of defense lawyer

  Radovan Karadzic will challenge the decision by war crimes judges to appoint him a defense lawyer in a trial in which the former Bosnian Serb leader is representing himself, his legal adviser said on Thursday. Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia last month appointed London-based barrister …

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Croatian President Stepan Mesic recommends name issue to be separated from EU accession talks

  The name dispute between Macedonia and Greece could be solved through international arbitration and to be separated from the EU accession talks until Macedonia reaches its European Atlantic aims. This is what Croatian President Stepan Mesic said during his visit to Skopje.

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Croatia rejects visas for Serbian nationals

  Croatia started a procedure of visa lifting for Serbia, Serbian Dnevnik newspaper writes on Thursday. The information was confirmed by government’s spokesperson Zlatko Mehun. At the decision of the Croatian government, citizens of Serbia will not need to get visas for crossing the territory of Croatia, as well as for …

  Read More »
• 3 December

  A Month Remains for Mladic to Be Caught

  Serbia’s Head of the Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, Rasim Ljajic, says he will give Serb forces another month to arrest the two remaining war crimes fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic. If the two are not arretsed by that time, he says will resign, he says. Ljajic …

  Read More »
• 3 December

  Finland Supports Macedonia’s EU Progress

  Finland supports granting a date for Macedonia’s start of membership talks at the EU summit on Decembers 7, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said after meeting his visiting Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski Thursday in Helsinki. While the country will urge other EU members to do the same, the ongoing name …

  Read More »