March 4, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegro’s Prime Minister Igor Luksic kicks off on Thursday (March 3rd) a two-day visit to Brussels where he will meet with senior EU and NATO officials as well as representatives of the Belgian government. The visit will be an opportunity to discuss Montenegro’s European and Euro-Atlantic bids and the priorities …
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March 4, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Kosovo Parliament will decide on the future talks with Serbia, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Wednesday (March 2nd). “I have full trust that we will have a co-operative approach, as we had earlier, in all important
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian War Crimes Prosecution has decided to give up on the criminal prosecution of Tihomir Purda, Danko Maslov and Petar Janjić due to a lack of evidence. The War Crimes Prosecution stated in a release that the
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegrin police on Wednesday night arrested Ivo Menzalin, who faces charges of war crimes committed at the Morinj detention camp near Kotor. Menzalin was arrested at the airport in Podgorica as he returned from Belgrade, on an Interpol warrant issued by an order of the High Court in Podgorica.
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
A new diplomatic mission of Azerbaijan started functioning in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Official opening of the representative office took place in Sarajevo on Tuesday, said the Azerbaijani Embassy in Serbia.
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March 3, 2011 Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish President Abdullah Gül is paying a visit to Egypt to help that country make an orderly and peaceful transition and to show that Turkey stands by post-revolution Egypt in this transition. Gül said that he will express his wishes for Egypt to emerge from this turmoil more powerful and
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Serbian Kosovo talks team chief Borko Stefanović has confirmed that he met on Tuesday night in Belgrade with EU mediator Robert Cooper. They discussed preparations for the start of talks between Belgrade and Priština.
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March 3, 2011 Eurasia News, Romania News
Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Commission Vice-President, pays her first visit to Moldova on Thursday to further deepen EU-Moldovan relations.
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
The European Union on Wednesday said its team of border guards will remain on Greece’s northeastern frontier with Turkey on a permanent basis in an effort to stop the stream of migrants coming into the bloc. In November, the EU’s border protection agency Frontex sent a 200-member force from 25 …
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March 3, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Montenegro
The verdict in the case of nine former police officers on trial for the1992 illegal deportation of Bosniak civilians from Montenegro will be delivered on March 29th. Both prosecutors and defence attorneys wrapped up their closing arguments Tuesday (March 1st). The defendants told the court they are not guilty, as …
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