October 30, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Macedonian Premier Nikola Gruevski held a short informal meeting with his new Greek counterpart, George Papandreou, on Thursday in Brussels. The parlay, which took place on the sidelines of an EU Council meeting, was expected to focus on the countries’ name dispute, but both leaders left after the meeting without …
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October 30, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
NATO membership would stabilise the political situation in Bosnia and open the way for the settlement of all questions concerning the country’s future, Bosnia’s defence minister says. “In the current situation, when our politics are war by other means, NATO membership would resolve all open security issues,” Selmo Cikotic said …
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October 30, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and new US War Crimes Ambassador Stephen Rapp are convinced that Serbia is cooperating fully with the Hague Tribunal. US diplomats will look to promote this impression, in order to press the Dutch to allow the unblocking of Serbia’s Interim Trade Agreement with the …
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October 29, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
Butmirski proces, iako nije rezultirao dogovorom, nije propao jer je međunarodnoj zajednici jasno pokazao ko je spreman za dogovor, a ko nije, smatra to Asim Sarajlić, zamjenik predsjednika SDA. Kao učesnik pregovora o napretku BiH, vođenih u Butmiru u organizaciji SAD i EU, on vjeruje u konačni dogovor, jer “nemamo …
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October 29, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
Političke partije sa sjedištem u RS pozdravljaju stav Savjeta Evrope da do dogovora u BiH moraju da dođu domaći političari, dok u FBiH smatraju da je nemoguće postići sporazum bez učešća stranaca. Rajko Vasić, izvršni sekretar SNSD-a, kaže da je ovaj prilazak problemu Evrope realnost i da EU, ali i …
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October 29, 2009 Eurasia News
Moldova’s governing Alliance for European Integration has voiced its disagreement with how the European Left are perceiving the new situation developing in this republic.
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October 29, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen reiterated that Holland is adamant in its stance of not allowing Serbia to continue its European integration.
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October 29, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
European parliament member Doris Pack said that Serbia will not enter the European Union “until it solves its problems with Kosovo”. According to Deutsche Welle, she said at a round table discussion in Berlin that Serbia’s “biggest problem is the fact that Kosovo is its closest neighbor which it does …
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October 29, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Ilarion of Volokolamsk is in Gračanica, reports said. The Russian Orthodox Church dignitary said that he had come to pay tribute to one of the oldest cradles of the Orthodox Christianity, where big historic events took place.
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October 29, 2009 Albania, Balkans, Eurasia News, Montenegro
Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Roćen stated that his country “does not have any open border issues with its neighbors”. Roćen was answering MP questions in parliament in Podgorica on Tuesday when he said that he had learned from the media about the ethnic Albanian protests near the town of Peć, …
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