Eurasia Press & News

The mission of Canadian troops in BiH officially ended on Monday (March 29th) with five officers and one non-commissioned soldier returning home. Canadian Ambassador to BiH Pierre Guimond noted at a ceremony in Sarajevo that Canada was among the first countries to send peacekeepers. He said that BiH is moving …

Representatives of the EU, the OSCE and the Council of Europe on Monday (March 29th) voiced their willingness to help Serbia in its decentralisation process. At the opening of a two-day conference in the Serbian parliament, President Boris Tadic said that decentralisation is one of the main challenges facing Serbia …

US troops handed over management of the borderline between Kosovo and Macedonia to the Kosovo Police on Monday (March 29th). KFOR said this proves the commitment and willingness of the police to take on greater responsibility for providing security to Kosovo citizens. The hand-over comes as NATO considers downsizing the …

Bulgaria and Romania’s EU accession in January 2007 was accompanied by a monitoring mechanism aiming to guide those countries’ progress in the field of law enforcement, but Croatia should join the Union without such a tool, Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Stefan Fule said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel s Monday aid that in order to achieve progress in its EU accession talks Turkey should open its ports to ships and planes from Cyprus and help press Iran to stop its controversial nuclear program.

SARAJEVO Transkripti prisluškivanih telefonskih razgovora pomoćnika ministra sigurnosti BiH Vjekoslava Vukovića bit će dostavljeni tužilaštvu i istražnim agencijama u BiH kako bi se utvrdilo ko je za potrebe hrvatskih obavještajnih službi snimao njegove razgovore. Ivo Miro Jović, delegat u Domu naroda parlamenta BiH, kaže da postoje dokazi da je Vuković …

The Serbian parliament is expected to today in Belgrade vote on the draft declaration condemning the Srebrenica crime. The draft is supported by 114 MPs of the ruling coaling from the DS-led group, and G17 Plus, PUPS and the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and Russian vice PM Igor Shuvalov will come to Chisinau this week. The announcement was made by the Moldovan head of the government Vlad Filat, during a meeting with the members of “Parlamentul 90” association. Filat mentioned the two foreign dignitaries would come on March …

Moldova` s Declaration of Independence, burnt during the protests from April 7th 2009, will be re-established on April 17th 2010, when deputies of the first Parliament will gather to sign the document. This statement was made by president of Association “Parlamentul 90”, Pantelei Sandulachi. President of “Parlamentul 90” specified that …

Hungarian foreign minister Peter Balazs said that is unrealistic to expect that all western Balkan countries would be eligible to join the European Union by 2014, as proposed by Greece. Hungary, however, remains prepared to help towards the region’s future European integration, the minister said during a meeting in Budapest …