March, 2009

• 12 March

  EUFOR, NATO Search for Mladic’s Whereabouts

  Soldiers of the EU’s peacekeeping mission, EUFOR, supported by NATO and local police, began to search a house of a close associate of the war-time Bosnian Serb commander and war-crimes suspect, Ratko Mladic, for material that would help reveal his whereabouts. Around 4:00 am on Thursday, some 60 EUFOR soldiers …

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• 12 March

  Serbia Must Look at its Past, Council of Europe

  Serbia should start being truthful about its role in the Balkan wars of 1990s and adopt a formal strategy for dealing with victims and perpetrators, says a Council of Europe human rights report. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg said on Wednesday during a visit to …

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• 12 March

  Serbian Arms Deal to Libya Halted

  The Serbian minister of economy Mladjan Dinkic told a the press conference Wednesday that the export of arms from Serbia to Libya was halted by the Security Information Agency because of suspicions that the owner of the company that mediated the deal is on the UN’s black list. Dinkic said …

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• 12 March

  Kosovo, Serb Universities Exchange Documents

  The University of Pristina has gotten back thousands of documents that were removed by the Serbs during the conflict in the late 1990s, with the help an NGO. SPARK NGO, a non-profit organisation that supports people in post-conflict regions by building the capacity of local economic and educational institutions, helped …

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• 12 March

  Bulgaria’s Economy Grew 6% in 2008

  Bulgaria’s economy grew by an annual rate of six per cent in 2008, making the country the fastest growing economy in the European Union. The annual growth figure was dragged lower by slower growth of 3.5 per cent in the forth quarter, half the rate of growth that was recorded …

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• 12 March

  Weak Leu Drives Romania’s Inflation Higher

  Romania’s annual inflation rate rose slightly to 6.9 per cent in February from 6.7 per cent in January, primarily due to the weakening of the national currency, the leu. The National Statistics Institute, INS, also said on Wednesday that the rise in inflation in February was due to an increase …

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• 11 March

  Istanbul Prosecutor Indicts 56 More In Coup Plot

  The state-run Anatolian news agency said the Istanbul prosecutor had submitted a 1,900-page indictment. Fifty-six more people were indicted on Tuesday on charges of plotting to overthrow Turkey’s Islamist-rooted AK Party government, and local media said two retired generals were among the suspects.

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• 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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