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Fri09162011

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1. Bosnia recognizes Kosovo customs stamp
(News/Newsflash)
... UNMIK/Kosovo to all signatories of the CEFTA agreement, which are identical to the stamps that were agreed at the bilateral negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo's authorities in Brussels on September ...
... Serbia had been involved in wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo in the end of the 20th century and that some of those wars had ended with genocide, stressing that the International ...
Boris Tadić said today that it will demand from the international officials to prevent threats and attempts to deploy Kosovo's customs officials at the administrative line. "It is particularly worrying ...
4. Back to the Balkans again
(Economy/Resource)
... the Kosovo issue and for business. In the aftermath of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that two countries which had hitherto been understood to have recognised Kosovo, now say that actually, ...
... with "not recognizing" Kosovo's independence. The Non-Aligned Movement member states, many with a Muslim majority, support Palestine and have recognized it as an independent state, but they remain reserved ...
"Now is the time to turn the EU perspective into an EU reality." The statement was made by Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga during her address to members of the European Parliament (EP) foreign affairs ...
...  Van Rompuy called on Serbia to continue talks with Kosovo as the nation works to gain EU candidate status year's end. Serbia, the largest of the former Yugoslav republics and the slowest to embrace the ...
8.
(World/Balkans)
... after the Bosnian war and warned Milosevic's regime against fomenting conflict in Kosovo, where fighting erupted after he left his post. The U.N. judges convicted Perisic on charges of providing officers, ...
Head of the Kosovo team for the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri explained that, by accepting the stamps of Kosovo customs, "Serbia recognized Kosovo's independence." "The agreement on the recognition ...
10. Serbia and Kosovo reach deal to end trade ban
(World/Balkans)
Serbia and Kosovo have reached an agreement that may end a trade dispute which has caused tensions and violence in the former province, German Press Agency DPA reported on Friday. Negotiators of both ...
11. Tadic says Serbia does not want war or violence of any kind
(World/National)
... Kosovo because it is their duty to do so, in keeping with all UN decisions, Tadic said in an interview for the Sunday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Politika. Tadic said that Serbia would persist ...
12. Eastern Serbia Dies Slow Death from Depopulation
(World/Balkans)
A baby hasn't been born in the picturesque village of Miroc for more than two years. "The last new-born child was a girl and we believed it was a good omen for a prosperous year that would bring us more ...
13. Eid Ul-Fitr 2011 in the Balkans
(World/Muslim world)
... in Albania, Kosovo, Sandžak, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania and Turkey also held festivities to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Bosnia marked the first ...
14. Steady Right-Wing Extremism in Serbia
(World/Balkans)
... attacked Kosovo's border posts to express their disapproval of a ban on Serbian products to Kosovo. The growth of the radical right in Serbia is directly related to the end of the Yugoslav wars, which ...
15. Hijacking the word 'Islam' for Mantra Creation
(Special Interest/Islam)
... terror upon the USSR as the National Security Advisor to the 38th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. See Instrumenting Kosovo in the 'arc of crisis' and the 'global zone of percolating violence' ...
... Merkel's visit, from hope to pessimism. One thing is increasingly clear, Serbia and Germany don't agree on the issue of Kosovo. The problem is, someone will have to change its stance and it is hard to ...
... Kosovo, Bosnia needs a stable Government, while Macedonia should work on solving their problem with Greece", stated Merkel in the interview for HRT. Greece's media is angry and disappointed with Merkel's ...
18. Merkel Set To Arrive In Croatia For Two-Day Balkan Trip
(News/Latest)
... say the trip will be focused on the region's European Union membership ambitions in light of the bloc's recent debt crisis. Her Belgrade visit will work toward defusing growing Kosovo tensions ahead ...
19. Skanderbeg - Hero or Traitor?
(Special Interest/Other Intrest)
... our readers and to avoid confusion, lets restate: native people of Kosovo are in fact Albanians, who share same history with Albania. But, from here on in this article, I will refer to Kosovars as Albanians ...
... and Kosovo," stated Metin. "We host welcome dinners for Albanian delegations visiting Turkey, and we fund scholarships for students from the Balkans to study in Turkey." A brief historical insight into ...