Eurasia Press & News

Senior EU and US officials will travel to Sarajevo in April to meet with Bosnian leaders in an apparent attempt to ease political tensions that have been mounting in the ethnically fragmented Balkan country as it prepares to hold general elections in October.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić denied reports linking the ICJ ruling in the Kosovo case with the arrest of Ratko Mladić. The delay in announcing the advisory opinion on the legality of the Kosovo Albanian unilateral declaration of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the arrest of the wartime …

I hope that Macedonian and Greek governments will use the remaining time of Spain’s mandate as the holder of the EU’s rotating presidency to solve name issue and finally get a green light by EU member states for start of accession talks with EU, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said.

SARAJEVO Problem raspodjele nepokretne vojne imovine neće biti riješen do predstojećeg NATO samita 22. aprila, na kojem će ponovo biti razmatrana aplikacija BiH za Akcioni plan za članstvo (MAP). Podjela vojne imovine jedan je od ključnih preduslova za BiH za dobijanje članstva u MAP-u, što je posljednji korak prije punopravnog …

Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania will continue to cooperate with Serbia for the sake of the Albanians in the Preševo Valley. He said that Tirana will cooperate with Belgrade to improve on the rights and integration of Albanians in southern Serbia. Meta said that policies of good …

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that even though 22 countries of the EU have recognized Kosovo, recognition is not a condition for Serbia’s integration. “Any other situation would be a very big problem and the integration process would be blocked,” Tadić said at a joint press conference held

Macedonia is fully committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution to Greece-imposed name issue, which impedes Macedonia’s NATO membership, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said.

Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze received European Parliament delegation, visiting Tbilisi and acquainted them with Georgia’s political situation.

Serbian President Boris Tadic told EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday (March 26th) that Belgrade’s goal is to get EU candidate status by the end of this year or in early 2011. He reiterated that his country will continue to co-operate with The Hague war crimes

Turkey’s chief negotiator with the EU, Egemen Bagis, has rejected Germany’s idea of privileged partnership for Turkey, instead of full membership. After talks with EU officials in Brussels on Friday (March 26th), he told reporters that there is no such term in the EU acquis. “The privileged partnership just does …