February 17, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbia’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Pristina, Borislav Stefanovic, called the referendum in four Serbian municipalities in North Kosovo pointless. In Stefanovic’s words, the referendum will not bring any real result, since it is anti-constitutional and will worsen Belgrade’s position in the negotiations. “It [the referendum] will not leave …
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February 17, 2012 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News, Turkey
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili are expected to attend the International Conference “Building Bridges”, to be held in September in Gabala, President of the Association for Civil Society Development (ACSD) in Azerbaijan, MP Elkhan Suleymanov told the press on Friday. He said the conference will …
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February 17, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
As a vital decision on Serbia’s EU candidate status looms in Brussels, Belgrade and Pristina are hurrying back to the negotiating table. The next round of EU-mediated talks between Belgrade
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February 17, 2012 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted by an absolute majority on February 17 2012 to ratify Croatia’s European Union accession treaty. The speaker of the Croatian parliament, Boris Sprem, was
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February 16, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has praised the “courage” of the Greek public in tackling the country’s “demanding and challenging” crippling debts. But, speaking in Brussels on Thursday, he also described
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February 16, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces, is set to start on May 14, when opening statements will be presented. The Chamber of the ICTY had announced last December
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February 16, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has replied to Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski’s letter of invitation for a meeting. Papademos has accepted the invitation and has proposed the meeting to be held in the frames of the Council of the EU in March. According to the Greek prime minister the dispute …
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February 16, 2012 Eurasia News, Turkey
Several former army chiefs were summoned to a Turkish court on Wednesday for the investigation of a coup plot that has already put dozens of high ranking military officials behind bars. The 10th Istanbul High Criminal Court demanded
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February 16, 2012 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Bulgaria’s government should respect the right of ethnic self-determination, as well as the right of free unification of the members of the Macedonian minority and the Bulgarian Mohammedan in the country, said Rita Isaak, independent
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February 16, 2012 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News, Turkey
The Tbilisi Business Forum contributes to development and deepening of economic relations between Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, Economy Minister of Turkey Zafer Caglayan, who arrived in Georgia to attend Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish Business Forum, told journalists in Tbilisi.
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