Austria’s Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said that he “would like to see Serbia receive the EU candidate status this fall”. If it were up to Austria, the answer would be ‘yes’, but it requires the agreement of all 27 EU member states, he said. Spindelegger said that he is also …

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, will visit the Republic of Moldova from 1 to 8 September 2011, in what is the first mission to the country by a UN human rights expert on religious freedom.

The United States dismissed elections in Abkhazia as illegitimate, and renewed support for what it called Georgia’s internationally-recognized borders. “The United States does not recognize the legitimacy or the results of the August 26 so-called elections in the Abkhazia region