Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marović said that Serbia should be Montenegro’s closest ally in the region. “We expect Serbia to have the same opinion of Montenegro,” Marović said .

Two of the major political parties in Romania refused to join talks on forming a new government on Sunday (8 November), even after international lenders warned that they would not release a payment of €1 billion as long as no real cabinet is in place.

There are no reasons for Belarus to recognize Abkhazia’s and South Ossetia’s independence, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a briefing today.