Montenegro

Montenegro aligns with EU, fails to back Russian resolution

PODGORICA -- Montenegro did not support a UN resolution against glorification of nazism and racism submitted by Russia, "because EU countries voted against."

This is what the Montenegrin Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations told the Podgorica-based daily Vijesti.

In accordance with its "financial capabilities", Montenegro has committed 1.2 million dollars assistance to the government of Afghanistan for the period 2015-2017, BIRN has learned.

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SKOPJE - A very small number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned to the southern Serbian province in the past 15 years, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric warned during the two-day regional conference in Skopje.

KOSOVSKA VITINA - A road sign listing the distances from Kosovska Vitina to cities that should come under a greater Albania has been put up in the downtown of this eastern Kosovo-Metohija municipality to mark the Albanian Flag Day, observed in Albania on November 28.

BELGRADE - The 9th International Festival of Salsa and other Caribbean dances under the title Salsa Motion Weekend will be held in Belgrade from December 5 to 7 and it will gather around 1,000 dancers from Serbia and the world.

The Russian embassy sent a diplomatic note to Montenegro's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration on Thursday, demanding an explanation after the billboards appeared in Podgorica last week. 

Relatives of six civilians including three children killed in NATO air strikes on Montenegro in 1999 plan to take their case to Europe after their compensation claims were rejected by local courts.

Montenegro's parliament on Thursday discussed new legislation about the building of the Bar-Boljare highway, the most expensive project ever in the country, which has divided opposition MPs and the government.

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Bulgaria's Tourism Ministry will create an electronic registry of all tourist destinations in the country, said Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova during the opening of the International Meeting Of Touroperators in Plovdiv.

The investigation into the deaths of the three airmen in 2011 has concluded that no one should be prosecuted over the incident, the High State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica said on Wednesday.