January, 2011

• 4 January

  Outgoing Kosovo Albanian interior minister Bajram Redzepi: Northern Kosovo will not be subject of talks

  Outgoing Kosovo Albanian Interior Minister Bajram Redzepi says that northern Kosovo will not be on the agenda of the Belgrade-Priština talks. He told local newspapers that “the problem of the north cannot be solved in one year and that it requires a long-term approach”. “I will insist that the north …

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• 4 January

  Serbia hopes to receive EU candidate status in 2011

  Serbia expects to receive EU candidate status by the end of 2011, according to the country’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic. Serbian PM is also positive that his country will obtain a date for starting accession negotiations by the end of this year. “If we use this year in the properly …

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• 4 January

  Greece and Macedonia to renew name issue talks

  Greece and Macedonia’s representatives, with the mediation of UN envoy Matthew Nimetz, are to meet on January 27 in New York to negotiate over the name of the Former Yugoslavian republic, Macedonian media and the foreign ministry informed.The talks will be renewed after a seven-week break.

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• 4 January

  Romania took over BSEC presidency

  Romania officially took over the six-month presidency of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) organisation from Greece on Saturday (January 1st). Romania said it will work to

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• 3 January

  In Brief: Turkey and Japan Close to Nuclear Power Plant Deal for Black Sea Province

  Right before the New Year, Turkey and Japan signed a cooperation memorandum that the two sides hope will lead to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Sinop. If realized, the Japanese-built nuclear power plant would be the second in Turkey, which is seeking …

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• 3 January

  The SWISH Report (17)

  What is the condition of al-Qaida, and what are its prospects in 2011 and beyond? The movement commissions the well-regarded SWISH management agency to deliver a further independent evaluation, to which openDemocracy has exclusive access. By Paul Rogers A report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the …

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• 3 January

  Will Bosnia Speak with One Voice as President of UN Security Council?

  Bosnia-Herzegovina has taken over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), sparking concerns that the country’s complicated and indeed paralyzed political situation will have negative consequences on the world body, and at home. Expectedly, Bosnia’s politicians have provided assurances that their own ethno-political conflicts will not keep them …

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• 3 January

  Bosnia took over Security Council presidency for January

  Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday assumed the rotating UN Security Council presidency for the month of January. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ivan Barbalic, took over the rotating Council presidency from his American counterpart, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, who held the presidency for December 2010.

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• 3 January

  Cypriot president to continue efforts on reunification in 2011

  Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said in his New Year address on Friday (December 31st) that he will continue efforts to reach a settlement of the long-standing Cypriot

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• 3 January

  Inzko says forming new BiH government should be 2011 priority

  In his New Year address, High Representative Valentin Inzko said that forming a government after the October elections should be the politicians’ top priority in

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