Eurasia Press & News

Macedonian politicians and dignitaries are expected to attend the ten year anniversary of the 2001 Ohrid Peace Accord on Saturday. The deal, which was signed on 13 August 2001, in the lake resort of Ohrid in southwestern Macedonia, ended almost a year of armed

Washington calls on Moscow to pull troops out of parts of Georgia and honor a 2008 cease-fire that ended conflict there, the US State Department said. Moscow and Tbilisi traded insults Monday, the third anniversary of a Russian military response to Georgia’s invasion of the separatist republic of South Ossetia …

Currently major priority of the new deputy prime minister in charge of European integration, Teuta Arifi is completing the tasks of the EU Commission annual report about Macedonia. Teuta Arifi said: “It is early to say whether positive or negative, but we are going to receive good and correct report”. …

Belgrade Kosovo talks team chief Borislav Stefanović expects that the dialogue with the Kosovo Albanian representatives to resume in Brussels on September 5. The issue of customs stamps will be discussed at that meeting, said Stefanović.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has commenced a two-day visit to Podgorica to discuss European Union integration and economic opportunities with Montenegro.

Egypt’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is going to make his first visit abroad to Turkey to discuss developments in the region and bilateral relations. The foreign minister is scheduled to

Bosnia and Herzegovina has not made significant political and social progress over the past four years, US diplomat Thomas Countryman says. The US deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs said that Bosnia is no closer to the EU and NATO than it had been four years ago. He

Serbian President Boris Tadic has spoken to Serbs from northern Kosovo to discuss implementation of the KFOR agreement aimed at easing tension in the region. The news comes just three days after the government of Kosovo reached an agreement with NATO-led KFOR personnel late on Friday to restore long-term stability …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou urged Greece’s European partners on Friday to move fast to enact a recent summit deal on a second rescue for Greece, intended also to prevent contagio. “The decisions having been taken by the leaders, the appropriate European institutions as well as member-states should proceed now …

The talks between Serbia and KFOR are blocked, because the NATO mission agrees to allow only trucks with humanitarian aid to cross Jarinje and Brnjak border checkpoints in North Kosovo. According to the first agreement all trucks and cars weighing up to 3,5 tons were allowed to cross the checkpoints. …