Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and eight wounded in fresh separatist attacks, the military said in Kyiv on May 21, as the OSCE security watchdog warned of a "worrisome" spread of violence in eastern Ukraine.

Ahmeti, head of the junior party in the coalition government, said he found out about the police action as soon as it started, at 5am last Saturday - and that one of the gunmen who were by then surrounded by police called him, urging him to help negotiate a retreat from Kumanovo.

Macedonian journalists staged protests in the capital Skopje Wednesday evening, following the death threat sent to journalist Borjan Jovanovski, Reuters reported.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic talked in Belgrade on Wednesday with representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and underscored that Serbia, as the country that is currently holding the OSCE chairmanship, will do everything in its power to ensure that the ceasefire in Ukraine is fully respected.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in a meeting with Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard that the cooperation with that mission is at the top level, and noted that the international community has positively assessed Serbia's chairmanship of the organization.

OSCE calls on all sides to respect ceasefire in Ukraine

VIENNA, BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has expressed his concerned over an increase in fighting in southeast Ukraine and urged all sides to respect the ceasefire, the OSCE said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated on Friday that the close ties with Russia are not hampering Belgrade's chairmanship over the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which has a key monitoring role in Ukraine.

There are no more rebel weapons in Eastern Ukraine's front line, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic claims.

According to Aleksandar Zakharchenko, who heads the "Republic", the heavy arms have been "fully removed" under a ceasefire deal agreed in Minsk, Belarus, in February.

Bulgaria is ready to support further measures against Russia if Moscow fails to abide by the deal reached in Minsk on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the country's Foreign Minister has said.

Novinite has interviewed H.E. Pavel Vacek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Bulgaria, on various bilateral issues, but mostly on issues in Bulgaria's energy sector and the repercussions they have on Czech companies.