March, 2013

• 18 March

  Kosovo aims for peace treaty with Serbia

  Kosovo said that a peace treaty would facilitate the reconciliation but would also ensure that Serbia pays compensation for the late 1990s war, said Hajredin Kuci, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister and justice minister.

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• 18 March

  Skopje opposition leader to push for snap general elections

  Leader of Macedonian oppositional party Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), Branko Crvenkovski, will ask for calling snap parliamentary elections in Macedonia no matter what the results of the March 24 local elections. “If we are united, if we stay firm and if we are decided

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• 18 March

  EP Rapporteur for Serbia says Kosovo issue must be solved

  European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin has said that “Unregulated relations between Serbia and Kosovo would block European integrations but what is more important, they would put a red flag on Serbia in the eyes of foreign investors”.

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• 18 March

  Greek MEP: Only Greece has the right to use the name Macedonia

  Only Greece has the right to use the name Macedonia until a solution to the name issue is found, said Greek MEP Hrisula Paliadeli. Paliadeli is one of the authors of the book called European cartography and politics: The case of Macedonia.

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• 18 March

  Serbian PM says the country will not turn its back on Kosovo Serbs

  At a ceremony marking nine years after anti-Serb violence in Kosovo, the serbian prime minister reiterated that 19 civilians were killed, 800 injured, 3,870 expelled and that 935 houses and 34 churches were destroyed. “I wish something like this will never happen again and I want Serbia to protect security …

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• 18 March

  Turkish and American Foreign Ministers discuss situations in Iraq and Cyprus

  The Turkish and American foreign ministers discussed the developments in Iraq and Cyprus over the phone on March 16. The Kerry-Davutoğlu talk was focused on the developments in Iraq as tension between Iraqi

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• 18 March

  Stefan Fuele visitis Serbia

  Stefan Fuele, the European Union commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, will make an official visit to Belgrade on Monday. The visit comes before the talks that will be hold this week between the Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers.

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• 18 March

  Turkey backs Tunisia’s democratic transitional process

  Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said that Turkey supports Tunisia’s democratic transitional process. The Turkish official headed to Tunisia on Sunday to meet and discuss formal topics with Tunisian officials. At his arrival, Bozdag stressed the rooted relations between two countries and said Turkey supports Tunisians during the democratic …

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• 18 March

  Syrian opposition meets in Istanbul to elect prime minister

  The Syrian opposition on Monday met in Istanbul to elect a prime minister which should run an interim government for the territory that was freed from regime control. Members of the opposition Syrian National Coalition attended the meeting, which is recognised by dozens of countries and organisations as a legitimate …

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• 15 March

  EU foreign ministers to meet and discuss arms embargo on Syrian next week

  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said in Brussels on Friday that the leaders of the bloc asked the union’s foreign ministers to discuss the arms embargo on Syria on March 22-23. “We agreed to task our foreign ministers to assess the situation as a matter of priority, already at …

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