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CIA Director William Burns' Southeast Europe Tour Includes Unusual Detour Over Bulgaria

William Burns, the CIA Director, is currently on a two-day visit to Kosovo, making his way through southeastern Europe. On Thursday, Burns was reported to have been in Bulgaria as part of a tour that included stops in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia, Skopje, and Pristina, according to Radio Free Europe.

Some 27 countries to be represented at Thessaloniki fair

A total of 27 countries will be represented by exhibitors in the 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), running September 7-15 in the northern port city's HELEXPO Exhibition & Congress Center.

Six countries will participate for the first time: Ecuador, Japan, Kosovo, Sub-Saharan Africa Countries, Qatar, and the United Kingdom. 

'No peace in Mideast until Palestine state founded': FM

There will be no peace in the Mideast until a Palestinian state is founded, warned the Turkish foreign minister.

"Palestinians are being prevented from truly having a state … (But) until a Palestinian state is established, no one in that region will have peace," Fidan said in a new magazine interview out this week.

Türkiye commemorates Srebrenica genocide in 1995

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has drawn a parallel between the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims and the current situation in Gaza, condemning the violence.

O'Brien: North of Kosovo, threat of secession in BiH are primary risks

WASHINGTON - US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O'Brien told Tanjug on Monday the risk in the Balkans was that "some local battles will turn into a political conflagration that will hold back the states of the region."

Drecun: Network of radical Islamism exists in region

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said a terrorist who had wounded a gendarme in an attack outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday had not been acting alone as he had later been found to have had ties with other religious converts who were members of the same Islamist organisation of Wahhabists.

Serbian Opposition Mounts Against UN Resolution on Srebrenica Genocide

The UN General Assembly is set to discuss and vote on a draft resolution regarding the Srebrenica massacre. The proposed document aims to declare July 11 as an International Day of Remembrance for the Genocide that occurred there in 1995. This resolution condemns the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals.

Brnabic: I have never been as concerned about peace in Balkans as I am now

BELGRADE - Commenting on Thursday's UN General Assembly session on a Srebrenica resolution, Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said she had never been as concerned about peace in the Balkans as she was at this time.

Speaking to Pink TV, Brnabic said she had also never been more concerned about what life in Bosnia and Herzegovina would look like after the vote on the resolution.

Vucic: Truth not one-sided, UN resolution to brand victims genocidal

NEW YORK - Addressing a panel that heard testimonies of Serb victims and witnesses of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the truth was not one-sided and that passing a draft UN Srebrenica resolution would brand those victims as members of a genocidal nation.

Brnabic: Srebrenica resolution would rewrite history of 20th century

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday passing a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica would rewrite the history of the 20th century and create a new world order based on lies and disrespect.

In an appearance on Happy TV, Brnabic also said the draft resolution violated the Dayton Agreement and the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Djuric voices concern over pressure on BiH ambassador to UN in Geneva

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Monday the Serbian MFA had been informed that Bosnia and Herzegovina's ambassador to the UN in Geneva was under pressure over his positions on a Srebrenica resolution and, more broadly, over the situation in the BiH.

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