January, 2009

• 16 January

  Iran, Kazakhstan, Jordan, UAE Discuss Interaction within CICA

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Dulat Bakishev made a working visit to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Iran from January 8 to 14. The visit aimed at a discussion of the issues of interaction within the CICA, Kazinform …

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• 16 January

  Swiss Ambassador to Obey Iran’s Islamic Dress Code

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Switzerland’s newly-appointed ambassador to Tehran, who is believed to be the first female ambassador to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, said she will observe Iran’s Islamic dress code (Hijab) during her mission in Islamic Republic. Livia Leu Agosti arrived in Iran this week as Berne’s woman in …

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• 16 January

  Iran Voices Dismay at Launching BBC Persian TV Service

  TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official on Wednesday voiced dismay at launching British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Persian TV service. “Launching BBC Persian service TV is detrimental to Iranian national security” Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie as said. He warned that Tehran would take “necessary measures” to thwart the plan. …

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• 16 January

  Iran to Build 5mln Barrel Storage Tanks to Boost Storage

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s storage capacity will raise by 25% once construction work of new storage tanks in Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf is complete, a senior Iranian oil official said. Managing Director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company Mousa Souri said that construction work of the planned 5 million-barrel …

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• 15 January

  Macedonia Protests Over Greek Minister Comments

  Skopje has officially protested at the European Commission in Brussels over comments by the Greek Culture Minister that Macedonia will soon dissolve and be carved up between a ‘Greater Albania’ and a ‘Greater Bulgaria’. Macedonia’s mission in Brussels condemned the statements by Antonis Samaras as “counterproductive” for bilateral relations, and …

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• 15 January

  North Kosovo Violence ‘Crime-Linked’ – EULEX

  The violence in Kosovo’s Serb-populated north earlier this month was not explicitly political but linked to crime, said the chief of the European Union’s police and justice mission in Kosovo. Most of the120,000 Serbs who live in Kosovo among two million Albanians reject the territory’s declaration of independence from Serbia. …

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• 15 January

  Kosovo ‘Not Free’, Bosnia, Macedonia Partly

  The 2008 Freedom House report classifies newly-independent Kosovo as a “not free” country, while Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro as well as European Union-candidate Macedonia are only “partly free”. Freedom House is a United States-based international NGO that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom and human rights. Its annual survey …

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• 15 January

  Serbia To Extend Gas Imports To Jan 20

  Serbia said it will import gas from Hungary and Germany until Jan 20, and hopes to raise the amount by 2 million cubic metres to cover its needs until the row between Russia and Ukraine is resolved. The country’s energy ministry said Serbia had sufficient crude oil to keep the …

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• 15 January

  Bosnia To Treat Wounded Palestinians

  Bosnia has offered to accept and treat Palestinians wounded in Israel’s incursion into Gaza, officials said, with the first medical air lifts be expected “very soon.” The health minister of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)-Croat Federation, Safet Omerovic and the Palestinian ambassador to Bosnia, Rostom Amir Saker Hussein, met on Tuesday …

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• 15 January

  Albania Issues New IDs, Biometric Passports

  Albanians rushed to apply for new identity cards and biometric passports, a key requirement for future visa-free travel to the EU. The new documents are seen as crucial to avert election fraud in the upcoming parliamentary election in June. They have also been one of the conditions of the European …

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