March, 2009

• 11 March

  Cluster Bombs Endanger Thousands In Serbia -Report

  The report said Serbia needed about 30 million euros ($38 million) to unearth and defuse unexploded cluster ordnance. About 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs a decade after NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, a Norway-based aid organisation said on Tuesday. The study …

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• 11 March

  Russian President Targets Graft With New Rules

  Medvedev said new regulations would require specific senior officials to declare their property on an annual basis. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced new anti-corruption measures on Tuesday aimed at closing legal loopholes and forcing senior officials to come clean about their wealth. Medvedev, who made anti-corruption one of his election …

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• 11 March

  Bosnia Serbs Seek To Close Peace Envoy`s Office

  The fate of the Office of High Representative for Bosnia will be decided at an international meeting in Sarajevo on March 26-27. Top Bosnian Serb officials advocated on Tuesday closing the international peace envoy’s office in Bosnia, but a think tank report warned the fragile Balkan country was still not …

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• 11 March

  The Slovenian Govt Not Releasing Tapes of PM’s

  The Slovene magazine revealed that the Slovenian secret service wiretapped conversations between Slovenian and Croatian PM’s. The Slovenian magazine Dnevnik last October requested of the government the recordings of all telephone conversations between Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the former Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, from 2004. In June …

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• 11 March

  Croatian Language Causes Dispute in Bosnia

  Young Bosnian linguists are promoting studying of the Bosnian language, while Republika Srpska says Bosnian is only a variant of Croatian. An association of young linguists and translators in Bosnia-Herzegovina several months ago created a web site ‘bosanski.ba’, but lately they are being attacked by linguists from the Bosnian Serb …

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• 11 March

  Bulgaria Finance Minister: Fast-Track Euro Zone Entry Not Priority

  Bulgarian Finance Minister, Plamen Oresharski, has stated that fast-track entry into the euro zone is not Bulgaria’s first priority, after coming out of a meeting of the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in Brussels late Tuesday. “It (euro membership) is not our first priority – our first priority …

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• 11 March

  FT: Danish PM Set for NATO Job, Bulgaria’s Bidder Out

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, appears set to become the new Secretary-General of NАТО, following a private agreement by the leaders of Britain, France and Germany to back his candidacy. In a move that would place Mr Rasmussen at the centre of the west’s drive to win the …

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• 11 March

  Serbian president wants to open “new chapter” in relations with USA

  Madrid, – Serbian President Boris Tadic said in Madrid today that he wants to open a fresh page in relations between Serbia and the United States, adding that he was sure that he would soon be meeting with the new US president. “I am sure that I will soon be …

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• 11 March

  Maldives president orders probe into alleged $2M bribe to recognise Kosovo

  The president of Maldives, Muhamed Nashid, has ordered police to investigate allegations that government officials accepted a $2 million bribe to recognise Kosovo as independent, media in the Maldives and Serbia reported. The allegations were made at the beginning of March by the opposition Islamic Democratic Party.

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• 11 March

  Spain will never recognise Kosovo – Zapatero

  Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Zapatero has reaffirmed that Spain will not recognise Kosovo as independent, newspapers in Kosovo and Serbia reported on March 10 2009. “Spain’s position on the unilateral declaration of Kosovo’s independence is known – it is non-recognition,” Zapatero was quoted as saying by Kosovo daily Koha …

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