Eurasia

CHISINAU, Moldova The newly-elected members of the Parliament will receive their permits at the Government on Friday, August 21. The Central Election Commission made such a decision on Tuesday. The form of the permit remained unchanged.

CHISINAU, Moldova The leaders of the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) said they will initiate a dialogue with the PCRM before the first sitting of the new Parliament scheduled for August 28. lad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, Marian Lupu and Serafim Urecheanu today discussed the structure of the Parliament and of …

PRIŠTINA The president and government of Kosovo oppose the announced signing of an agreement between the Serbian police (MUP) and EULEX, reports from Priština said. The deal is meant to foster cooperation between the EU mission in Kosovo and Serbia’s Interior Ministry and police. But the Albanian language media are …

HAGUE, Holland A status conference in the court process being led against Serb Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Šešelj will be held on Tuesday. The trial was in its final phase when it was halted in February, after some witnesses of the prosecution claimed to have received threats. 

BANJA LUKA Chief of the EP’s Southeast Europe delegation, Doris Pack, said that the existence of the Republic of Srpska (RS) is not slowing down Bosnia’s progress. “The existence of RS is not an obstacle, political verbal attacks are, and that is present in both entities. RS is not a …

TURKEY Thousands swarmed the streets of cities and towns of the northwestern Marmara region early Monday morning to commemorate the memories of those who died in the Aug. 17, 1999 Marmara earthquake. The earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale hit Turkey’s northwest, its epicenter in the Gölcük region in …

TURKEY Interior Minister Beşir Atalay has said the government’s new Kurdish initiative — a general term to refer to new Kurdish policies announced in late July and based on a model unique to the country’s own history and current conditions — is a long-term state project. During a meeting with …

MACEDONIA Macedonia builds a professionally, well trained army as a guarantee of the territorial integrity and state sovereignty and therefore ARM is one of the greatest Ambassadors of our country, the President Gjorge Ivanov said. After 2001, Macedonia become security importer, but now it became security exporter, due to it …

ALBANIA Edi Rama, the current leader of the Socialists – the biggest opposition party in Albania, said he would run again for another term at the upcoming party’s congress scheduled for end of August. Despite facing numerous accusations from other parties and his Socialists as wells, Rama said he strongly …

ALBANIA The burial place of more than 4,000 political prisoners executed during the Albanian communist regime of Enver Xohxa, remains unknown up to this day. The secretary of the association for integration of political prisoners of Albania made public this information. This association accused all previous governments that held power …