January 18, 2011 Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan at the beginning of February to discuss bilateral economic cooperation. A business forum Turkey-Kyrgyzstan will be held during the visit.
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January 18, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Albania’s parliament approved on Monday two appointments to fill cabinet posts of deputy prime minister and economy minister. In a 72-0 vote, lawmakers in the 140-seat parliament endorsed the appointment
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January 18, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
Prosecutor of the EULEX Mission in Kosovo Isabelle Arnal conferred Monday in Tirana with Albanian colleagues. They talked about starting an investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The European Parliament (EP) has postponed a plenary session vote today, that was to ratify EU’s Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia. The voting was rescheduled for Wednesday for technical reasons. The EP, which is in session until Thursday, will hold a debate and then vote to ratify the …
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkey and Greece will hold a new round of exploratory talks, Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. The 49th round of exploratory talks between the two countries will take place in Ankara on Wednesday.
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Police in Israel have arrested a Bosnian man suspected of participating in the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. Cvetkovic, 43, was arrested today by Israel’s National Unit for the Investigation of Serious and International Crime.
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Miroslav Milojevic, representing Republika Srpska’s Interior Ministry, takes over the post of deputy head of the UN mission in Cyprus on Monday (January 17th). Milojevic has been serving within the mission since May 2009.
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Voters in eight municipalities turned out on Sunday (January 16th) for snap local elections. According to preliminary results, Albin Muslic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 53.7 % of the votes in the Bihac
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January 18, 2011 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
The Albanian local elections process set for May 8th should set a good example, head of the Central Election Commission Arben Ristani said on Sunday (January 16th). “We hope that political parties, which I believe
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January 18, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News
US Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell is urging Kosovo politicians to forget an endless election cycle, and instead focus on the rule of law, good governance, and economic growth. In an editorial published on Saturday (January 15th), Dell wrote that Kosovo needs an honest
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