Eurasia Press & News

Georgian government delegation, headed by Prime Minister Nika Gilauri, will arrive in Azerbaijan on July 23. Baku will host a meeting of the Georgian-Azerbaijani Inter-governmental Commission, Nikoloz Mchedlishvili, spokesman of Georgia’s Prime Minister.

Greece’s prime minister is planning a diplomatic initiative in order to “revive” the stalled Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project in which his country is a partner together with Bulgaria and Russia, media reports say. George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, is expected to pay a visit to the Bulgarian capital Sofia …

The prosecution in the Hague has called a new witness, a former UN general in Bosnia, to the stand at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY. Hussein Ali Abdel-Razek, a former general in Egyptian army, was head of the Sarajevo sector …

Marko Boskic, a former member of the 10th Reconnaissance Squad of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, was sentenced to ten years in prison by a first instance verdict for participating in the murder of several hundred men from Srebrenica in July 1995.

The European Commission has criticised the government’s new strategy to fight corruption and organised crime, the Podgorica-based daily Vijesti reported on Saturday. The EC reportedly concludes the document lacks

Despite rising political tensions due to terror attacks, Turkey’s government seems to be standing firm on its democratic initiative aimed at boosting the rights of the Kurdish minority. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip

The recently created municipality of Partesh/Partes chose its first mayor Sunday. Nenad Cvetkovic, of the Zavicaj association, grabbed 58% of the votes, beating Todor Mirkovic of the United Serbian List. Turnout was 55%. International Civilian Representative Pieter Feith

Slovenian MEP Yelko Kacin reckons that Montenegro will be the next country to start the EU accession talks unless Macedonian-Greek dispute is resolved in due time. In an interview with Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti, Kacin said it’s important that the European Union maintains its focus on the Western Balkans once Croatia …

The European Union offers Serbia to draw up together a resolution to be submitted to the UN General Assembly shortly after the International Court of Justice renders its opinion on Kosovo.

SARAJEVO Kristijan Švarc-Šiling jedini je bivši visoki predstavnik međunarodne zajednice u BiH koji u našoj zemlji još ima svoju nepokretnu imovinu. Šiling je po okončanju mandata u BiH kupio stan koji mu je služio kao rezidencija. Njegov prethodnik Pedi Ešdaun tokom mandata u našoj zemlji bio je kupio vikendicu, koju …