Eurasia Press & News

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Croatian President Stjepan Mesić to discuss issues related to the property of the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS).

The Republic of Srpska (RS) leaders say High Representative Valentin Inzko’s decision to extend the mandate of foreign judges and prosecutors is unacceptable. The president of the Bosnian Serb entity, Rajko Kuzmanović, on Monday described Inzko’s move as “unacceptable”, and as “a clear sign that Bosnia-Herzegovina continues to be under …

European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia, Jelko Kacin, said that the proclamation of the Vojvodina statute is a sign of maturity in Serbia. He said that it is also a sign of Serbia’s political will to turn itself into a modern and functional country.

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will visit Belgrade on Wednesday, it was announced.

Everything will be done to allow the OSCE to resume activity in Georgia in 2010, Greek Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-In-Office Charalampos Christopoulos and his successor, Kazakh representative Bolat Nurgaliyev said at a meeting with Georgian Vice Parliamentary Speaker Gigi Tsereteli.

Russia’s Energy Ministry believes there is no reason to suspect another corporate conflict in the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said.

The 19 deputies of the now-defunct Democratic Society Party, or DTP, decided during an emergency strategy assembly on Monday to resign from the Turkish Parliament, DTP co-leader Ahmet Türk said after the party convened in Diyarbakır.

Albania’s opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama urged the government either to recount the ballots cast in June parliamentary elections or hold another.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has been re-elected as leader of the governing Democratic Party (DP). The party convention voted 1.204 to 5 late on Monday to retain Berisha. He was the only candidate and will serve a four-year term. In his address to party convention, Berisha said the Democratic …

Bosnia and Herzegovina will chair the Ministerial meeting of the Adriatic group countries on Tuesday. The ministers will discuss the regional cooperation in the frameworks of the Adriatic group, NATO integration, ISAF mission as well as