Ukrainian speakers sees great prospects for cooperation with Belarus (KYIV Post)
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn said on Tuesday he was satisfied with the results of talks he held in Minsk. The Ukrainian speaker said this after a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Serb Police Officers In Kosovo Return To Work After 16 Months (Nasdaq)
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AFP)–Serb police officers, who left their jobs last year in protest over Kosovo’s independence, ended a 16-month boycott Tuesday and overwhelmingly returned to work, meeting a government deadline, an official said.
Ukrainian-Polish agreement on rules for local border traffic takes effect on July 1 (KYIV Post)
The agreement had been signed in Kyiv on March 28, 2008. An agreement between the Ukrainian and Polish governments on rules for local border traffic comes into force on July 1, 2009, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych has said.
Kosovo Serb policemen return to work (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters PRISTINA, June 30 (Reuters) – Around 300 Serb police officers have returned to work after 16 months of refusing to take orders from Kosovo authorities who declared independence last year, police said …
Serb Ex-military Policeman Jailed In Bosnia For War Crimes (Nasdaq)
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)–A Bosnian court Tuesday jailed a former Serb military policeman for seven-and-a-half years over the murder and torture of non-Serb civilians during the 1992-1995 war.
Slovenian Defence Minister Says Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina Not Stable Yet (Defence Professionals)
Defence Minister Ljubica Jelusic, who is taking part in a two-day conference on global security in Istanbul, Turkey, presented on Friday Slovenia’s experience in the NATO-led KFOR mission in Kosovo…
Bosnia: Former Serb leader denies war crimes charges (Adnkronos)
Bosnia: Former Serb leader denies war crimes charges (AKI) Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday rejected the 11 charges of genocide and war crimes filed against him by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Karadzic submitted a written document to the tribunal, saying he never planned, instigated, ordered, committed or helped or …
Serbs rejoin ethnic Albanian Kosovo police (UPI)
PRISTINA, Kosovo, June 30 (UPI) — Kosovo police said 307 Serb officers returned to the force they quit in February 2008 to protest the secession from Serbia declared by Albanian leaders.
Moldova Romania relations remain frozen so far (Moldova.org)
Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Moldova and Romania are frozen so far; ambassadorial offices of both countries are vacant, while the visa requirements for Romanian citizens are effective in continuation. However, both parties formally declare interest to normalise the Moldovan-Romanian relations. But both Moldova and Romania condition the restoration of good relations. According to …
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-06-30 17:58 UPDATE 1-Greece’s OTE to buy Romanian mobile company Zapp (Interactive Investor)
ATHENS, June 30 (Reuters) – The Balkans’ biggest telecoms company OTE said on Tuesday it agreed to buy Romanian mobile operator Zapp for 207 million euros ($292.5 million) to gain a 3G service in the region’s largest cell phone market. “The price … is expected to reach 61 million euros (equity value) while Cosmote will assume debt and other obligations worth about 146 million euros,” OTE unit …
