March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Bulgarian Prime Minister met with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen, who is on an official visit to Sofia at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Nikolay Mladenov. The two have discussed the good political dialog
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March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will visit Belgrade on March 29. He will have talks with the country’s top officials. The visit pertains to the ongoing process of reviewing Serbia’s answers to the EC questionnaire. To that end, EC expert missions have been visiting Belgrade since late February.
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March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Serbia
A Serbian delegation led by PM Mirko Cvetković is today in Banja Luka in the Serb republic (RS) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for a series of meetings. A joint session of the Serbian and RS governments will also be held on Friday. The session represents continued cooperation in the area of special …
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March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
A solution for the Serbian-Albanian conflict cannot be a scenario in which Serbia will recognize Kosovo’s independence, said Serbian President Boris Tadić. He believes that the solution must not be such that one side wins everything while the other loses everything.
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March 18, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
The capability to hold democratic elections has to be proven on May 8th, when Albania will hold local elections, Albanian President Bamir Topi told foreign ambassadors in Tirana. He met on Wednesday (March 16th) with
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March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The head of the EU delegation to Serbia, Vincent Degert, said on Wednesday (March 16th) that the European Commission (EC) will present its opinion on the country’s EU membership application by October 12th. Degert attended a meeting of EU ambassadors in Smederevo. EU expert missions are visiting Belgrade to assess …
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March 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
European Parliament (EP) members backed a draft resolution Wednesday (March 16th) calling for the opening of EU accession talks with Macedonia. The resolution, drafted by EP Rapporteur Zoran Thaler, was adopted in
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March 17, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Fatmir Limaj, an MP and former transport minister, was questioned last night by EULEX prosecutors over war crimes allegedly committed in Kosovo during the 1999 war. Limaj was questioned as part of an operation by EULEX officers and Kosovo police on Wednesday, in which they arrested twelve persons on suspicion …
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March 17, 2011 Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that Turkey had no other goal in its geography than peace, democracy and law. He said that Turkey was not after power and domination, and it did not have different intentions.
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March 17, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Croatia, Eurasia News
A Croatian woman accused of war crimes in Bosnia has been arrested in the US state of Kentucky. Azra Basic, a Croatian who lives in Kentucky, is accused of torturing and murdering Serbs at prison camps in Bosnia from April to June 1992.
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