June, 2009

• 15 June

  Karadzic: Another ICTY Saga

  The case against the wartime Bosnian Serb leader is not what it should have been, and the Hague Tribunal will be forced to end its mandate with an entertaining farce, Anes Alic comments for ISN Security Watch. Though many had doubts that wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic would ever …

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• 15 June

  Russia, Belarus Up War Of Words As Rift Widens

  The rift between Russia and Belarus deepened on Sunday when Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko snubbed a security summit in Moscow in protest at Russia’s “trade war” against his nation. Ties between the former Soviet republics have been strained since 2007. Minsk is angry at rising prices for Russian gas and …

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• 15 June

  Russia to resume talks with Georgia only after elections

  MOSCOW Russia will be ready to resume deliberations with Georgia, if the Georgian people elect a new leadership, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Chinese journalists. 

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• 15 June

  Gas supply to Armenia to be delayed on June 16-21

  Georgian Gas-transport Company officially informed ArmRosGazProm on temporary delay of gas supply to Armenia, ArmRosGazProm Press Service reported. The Georgian company plans works on connection of a new section of gas-main pipeline Kazakh-Saguramo (diameter 1000 mm, length 3,6 km). During construction period, unrestricted gas supply will be implemented from the …

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• 15 June

  Romania promises ongoing support for Georgia’s EU and NATO bids

  Bucharest Romania’s foreign minister promised continued backing for Georgia’s bids to join the European Union and NATO during a meeting with his Georgian counterpart Friday in Bucharest.

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• 15 June

  Race to host EU energy regulator goes to another lap

  Luxembourg Three European Union newcomers on Friday remained in the race to host a coveted EU agency that will oversee the EU electricity market after EU energy ministers postponed a final decision until July. Romania, which joined the EU in 2007, and Slovakia and Slovenia, both of which joined in …

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• 15 June

  Serbia Denies Kosovo Spy Claims

  The Serbian Security and Information Agency, BIA, are denying media reports made last Friday in Pristina that three of their agents had been arrested in Caglavica, Kosovo. Jovan Stojic, chief of the Agency director’s office told Beta news agency at the weekend that “The Security and Information Agency has no …

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• 15 June

  Western Defeat Brings New Low in Bosnia

  Bosnian politics reached a new low over the weekend as Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) leaders abandoned crucial negotiations over Bosnian Serbs’ continued challenges to the country’s constitution and international authority. In a telling indication of growing tensions in the country, local police reported two vandal attacks on a Bosniak mosque and …

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• 15 June

  New Ambassadors Welcomed to Serbia

  Serbian President Boris Tadic on Friday was presented with credentials from several newly appointed ambassadors to Serbia for the first time. He received the ambassadors in gathering from Egypt, Angola, Italy and Macedonia: Aly Galal Bassiouny, Toko Diakenga Serao, Armando Varricchio and Ljubisha Georgievski respectively.

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• 15 June

  Serbia Supports Vojvodina Regional Development

  Serbian president Boris Tadic told media in Novi Sad on Saturday that an equal regional development of Serbia should in no way postpone or halt the adoption of the draft Vojvodina Statute in Parliament. “Equal regional development is a subject that requires a serious democratic debate in the years to …

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