February, 2009

• 21 February

  “Kosovo Serbs Warming To Ahtisaari Plan” -ICO

  Serb inhabitants of the flashpoint town of Mitrovica have apparently reacted positively to partsof the “Ahtisaari Plan” that aim to create a multiethnic society in Kosovo, said David Slinn, Mitrovica representative of the International Civilian Office, ICO. The ICO’ brief is to support implementation of all status settlements that initiated …

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• 21 February

  Ahtisaari Keen On Croatia- Slovenia Mediation

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari would be ready to chair a working group aiming to settle an 18-year border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn confirmed. “Ahtisaari would be in principle ready to chair this group, but for the group to set up we need agreement …

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• 21 February

  Macedonia’s Gruevski Sees Approval Rating Melt

  After reaching record approval numbers late last year, Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is seeing his popularity fall drastically in the last one and a half month, shows a survey by the International Republican Institute. The survey shows he went from a 61 percent approval rating in December to 51 …

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• 21 February

  Kosovo To Start Building New Power Plant In 09

  Kosovo will start within the year the construction of the “New Kosovo” power plant that will provide 24-hour power to Kosovo’s population and alleviate frequent power cuts, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Thursday. “New Kosovo” is Thaci’s label for the “Kosovo C” project, a coal-based power plant with …

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• 21 February

  Heavy Snow Paralyzes Parts Of Balkans

  Heavy snow storms and icy winds across the Balkans over the last two days caused traffic jams and left thousands in mountainous areas cut off, but also delighted coastal cities that have not seen such snow in many years. At least five municipalities in northern Albania are cut off due …

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• 21 February

  Kosovo Pilot Starts Fly-In Recognition Drive

  A Kosovo-born pilot will next month start a fly-in campaign across the Americas to persuade governments to recognise Kosovo, which this week celebrated one year since its declaration of independence from Serbia Texas resident James Berisha, 37, will begin his Flying For Kosovo (www.flyingforkosovo.com ) campaign in March and has …

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• 21 February

  Kosovo Telecom Still Uses Serbia Prefix, Free

  Kosovo is still using Serbia’s +381 international dialling code for its land lines, despite having no formal agreement or any talks on the issue since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia last year. The head of the parliamentary economic commission, Energy and Transport Minister Myzejene Selmani, said Kosovo should cut this …

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• 21 February

  Serbia State To Intervene To Help Economy

  A Serbian government package of economic measures to help local companies make it through the global financial crisis will not solve all the economy’s problems for good, but take the edge off the most acute issues, experts say. More than half of the 1.2 billion euro package, which comes into …

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• 21 February

  More Charges In Albania Deadly Blast Case

  Fourteen high officials of the Ministry of Defence were charged on Wednesday with abuse of power and falsifying documents over the deadly blast at army depot outside Tirana last March. Ex-Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu and several former high officials from the ministry were charged last week with abuse of power, …

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• 21 February

  US House speaker assures Afghanistan of support

  KABUL (AFP) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assured President Hamid Karzai Saturday that Washington would accelerate Afghanistan’s reconstruction as part of a new “war on terror” strategy, his office said. Pelosi visited the country at the head of an eight-member Congressional delegation as the United States was reviewing its …

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