March 14, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The meeting is to be held between political leaders and businessmen of the Western Balkan countries and the current and potential partners from the U.S., and Serbia has opted not to participate of attendance of Kosovo Albanian representatives.
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March 14, 2011 Eurasia News, Romania News
US Vice President Joe Biden yesterday made the highest-ranking US visit ever to Moldova, signalling Washington’s support for pro-Western reforms in Europe’s poorest country. Biden told Moldova’s liberal leaders its future lay with Europe and showed support for their efforts to end a protracted political and economic crisis. “We are …
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March 14, 2011 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, is starting his trip to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia next today to meet government leaders and representatives of political parties to discuss OSCE work in the region and the Lithuanian Chairmanship’s priorities for 2011.
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March 14, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said on Friday (March 11th) that he will order the arrest of former Vice President Ejup Ganic and retired Army General Jovan Divjak if they enter the entity’s territory. Serbia
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March 14, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Branko Crvenkovski, leader of the opposition SDSM party, accepted an invitation on Friday (March 11th) to meet with Prime Minister and ruling VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski about a date for holding early
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March 14, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Friday (March 11th) it has granted temporary release to Franko Simatovic, a former commander of the special unit of Serbia’s State Security Service. He will be released from March
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March 14, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
About 200 members of the Islamic Wahhabi movement gathered in front of the parliament building in Sarajevo on Saturday (March 12th) to protest the detention of seven Arabs suspected of posing a threat to national
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March 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
Expressing determination for exploring all options to find a comprehensive and permanent solution to the Aegean dispute between Greece and his country, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also encouraged Greece to give up its decades-old perception of Turkey as a threat.
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March 7, 2011 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
Unlike its neighbors, Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind in its EU integration, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov warned in Sarajevo on Monday. “We have paved the road of reforms that Bosnia and Herzegovina should take. That is why we are here today as neighbors and friends who
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March 7, 2011 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The Belgrade-Priština dialogue depends on the “commitment of the two countries” to the European perspective, says a Kosovo Albanian official. “The Kosovo government looks upon the dialogue with the belief that it will contribute to the normalization of Kosovo’s relations with Serbia,” Kosovo
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