Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

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.

PM, Russian ambassador "discuss cooperation"

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Thursday with Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin to discuss "the political and economic cooperation."

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament's committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and OSCE Mission to Serbia have very successful and intensive cooperation, Chair of the Committee Meho Omerovic and Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Democratization Department Jan Lueneburg said on Monday.

 The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency session to discuss the fragile ceasefire in Ukraine on Feb. 27, a year to the day since Russian troops and pro-Moscow forces began seizing ports and cities on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
      

Russia on Feb. 26 called Western threats of fresh sanctions against Moscow evidence that Washington and Brussels are not interested in the success of a troubled truce in Ukraine.