Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
European parliament member Doris Pack said that Serbia will not enter the European Union "until it solves its problems with Kosovo".
According to Deutsche Welle, she said at a round table discussion in Berlin that Serbia’s "biggest problem is the fact that Kosovo is its closest neighbor which it does not ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk has stated in Gracanica that he had come to pay tribute to one of the oldest cradles of the Orthodox Christianity, where big historic events took place.
Hilarion who is on a several-day visit to the Eparchy ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
By: International Security Research & Intelligence Agency -ISRIA-
France - Security Council: Kosovo (UNMIK) - Statement by Mr. Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
I wish to begin by thanking Mr. Vuk Jeremi?, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
REUTERS
By Aleksandar Vasovic
BELGRADE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits Serbia on Tuesday with Belgrade seeking terms for a 1 billion euro loan and hoping to strike further energy deals with its traditional ally.
Russia and Serbia share a common Orthodox Christian and Slavic heritage, but the Kremlin has ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Oct 8, 2009 1:22pm IST
By Adam Tanner
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - EU and U.S. diplomats bring together Bosnian politicians on Thursday to seek a solution to deepening ethnic divisions that are blocking key reforms in what some see as the last unfinished corner of the Balkans.
Officials at European Union headquarters in Brussels ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
ISNA - Tehran
Service: Islamic Parliament
1388/07/15
10-07-2009
News Code :8807-00044
TEHRAN (ISNA) - Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina are willing to expand mutual relations in politics, culture, economy and parliamentary cooperation.
Parliamentary friendship group of Iran and Bosnia Herzegovina held meeting with the Muslim member of the Bosnia Herzegovina Presidency, Haris Silajdzic in Sarajevo.
Silajdzic calling for expansion ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3847972106
Visiting Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha and his Kosovo host Hasim Taci on Tuesday signed several bilateral agreements which will facilitate movement of people and goods between the two countries and promote customs and border police cooperation.
Albania has also ceded to Kosovo the Adriatic port of Shendjin, thus giving the ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Russia is set to lend €1 billion ($1.46 billion) to Serbia, according to officials on both sides, as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in the region and Belgrade looks for partners more free with cash than the European Union to help out during the economic downturn.
Serbia's economy minister, Mladjan ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | October 02, 2009 | By Dragan Stavljanin
Since the Dayton agreement ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, and nine years after the toppling of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, many believe the western Balkans have embarked on an irreversible path toward democratic reform and Euro-Atlantic integration. ...
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