May 23, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will meet with Serbian officials in charge of cooperation with the court on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Brammertz met with Serbia’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević to talk about cooperation in ongoing cases against Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić. After this visit, Brammertz …
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May 23, 2012 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
The 122nd Ministerial of the Council of Europe will be held in Strasbourg on May 23. First Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, Nikoloz Vashakidze, who will attend this meeting announced: “It is important that by consensus the agenda of the ministerial includes issue “On overcoming the circumstances that prevent human …
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May 23, 2012 Eurasia News, Romania News
Romania’s newly appointed Justice Minister Titus Corlatean has stated that EU’s Co-operation and Verification Mechanism for his country should be reviewed later this year. Five years after Romania’s accession to the European Union, it should be
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May 23, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
The Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, and his Georgian counterpart, Miheil Saakashvili, met during the NATO summit in Chicago and agreed to exchange official visits in near future. The two discussed a few ‘common grounds’.
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May 23, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Bulgaria’s government has welcomed the election of the new Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in a statement of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. “We welcome the election of Tomislav Nikolić as President of the Republic of Serbia and congratulate the Serbian people
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May 23, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Macedonian opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of damaging the national interest by unnecessarily antagonizing NATO in a recent interview. Opposition politicians have called on Prime Minister
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May 23, 2012 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Bosnian and EU officials met in Sarajevo on Tuesday and concluded that Bosnia is getting closer to EU membership. The Bosnian Prime Minister, Vjekoslav Bevanda, said that the implementation of the Sejdic – Finci ruling, one of the preconditions for the start
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May 21, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Germany and France pledged Monday to do whatever was needed to keep Greece in the eurozone, as political turmoil in the debt-wracked country threatens to force it out of the club. “We agreed that we have to do everything to keep Greece in the euro club,” Schaeuble told a joint …
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May 21, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Newly elected President of Serbia, 60 years-old Tomislav Nikolic, vowed to keep Belgrade on its path to Brussels. “Serbia will not turn away from the European path,” said the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), now the country’s biggest after the May 6 parliamentary and first-round presidential elections. However, …
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May 21, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Eamon Gilmore, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, welcomed the successful completion of voting in Kosovo in the second round of the Serbian presidential election. “I am satisfied that the elections took place
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