Eurasia

The newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to Macedonia Gjurol Sokmensuer has handed in his credentials to Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milosksi on Tuesday. During the meeting the officials saluted the positive and successful development of relations between the two countries.

Azerbaijan will vote in favor of Serbia’s Kosovo resolution during the upcoming UN General Assembly session. This is according to the country’s Ambassador to Serbia Eldar Hasanov, who

Macedonian Minister of Labor and Social policy Xhelal Bajrami and OSCE Ambassador to Macedonia Jose Luis Herero are set to sign a memorandum of understanding. The signing of this memorandum aims to review and mark the implementation of the Action plan for improving the situation of Roma people in the …

Serbia is open to discussing its draft UN resolution on Kosovo, but is not ready to change or withdraw it, Serbian officials have said. Zdravko Ponos, Serbia’s assistant minister of foreign affairs, denied media reports that Germany FM Guido Westerwelle is to visit Belgrade to

The UN General Assembly is expected to discuss Serbia’s draft resolution on Kosovo on September 9th, local media reported on Sunday (August 22nd). The document says that “unilateral secession is not an acceptable way to solve territorial issues”, and calls for reaching a “mutually acceptable solution to all open issues” …

Institutions in Serb-dominated Mitrovica say that the number of Kosovo Serbs who are interested in obtaining Kosovo documents has increased lately, local media reported on Monday (August 23rd). Civil Registry Office

UN mediator Matthew Nimetz is expected to offer a new compromise proposal next month in the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, local A1 TV reported on Sunday (August 22nd). Government

Serbia will accept talks, but not a drastic change to its UN General assembly Kosovo resolution, MFA sources said in Belgrade today. The United States and the EU have been increasing their diplomatic offensive, while media reports place the forthcoming visit of German FM Guido Westerwelle in that context. 

EULEX Deputy Head Roy Reeve said Monday that the EU mission has appointed seven of its judges to the court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica. According to him, this came in an attempt to reduce the number of unresolved cases, which has reached 20,000.

“There are chances for Moldova in October to receive a road map from the EU that will open clear prospects on the visa regime liberalization,” Prime Minister Vlad Filat said in a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.