Josep Borrell

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias expressed his gratitude towards EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, and the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Italy upon his arrival at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday.

The European Union will keep working for a political settlement to the conflict in Sudan despite the recent evacuation of diplomatic staff and other EU citizens from the country, the bloc's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday.

Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday.

International leaders are demanding an immediate end to days of bloody fighting between rival military groups in Sudan, which has left nearly 200 people dead and hundreds more injured, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.

At least 185 people have been killed and 1,800 injured in the fighting in Sudan, UN mediator Volker Perthes said via video conference in New York.

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell announced on Wednesday the EU would endorse the text of a Belgrade-Pristina declaration on missing persons, agreed by the chief negotiators of the two parties in Brussels on Tuesday.

"The agreement they reached on the text on the declaration on missing persons during yesterday's chief negotiators meeting is a first step.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said that the EU expects Serbia and the so-called Kosovo fulfills all obligations.
This refers to the obligations arising from the Agreement on Normalization of Relations.

Russia's U.N. ambassador on Monday dismissed U.S. and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool's joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending the principles of the U.N. Charter, which Moscow is widely accused of breaking by invading Ukraine.

History in the Making?

Montenegrin president Milo Djukanovic at the polling station in Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

Montenegro's ruler of three decades, Milo Djukanovic, is in a pickle. April 2 could become a historic day if he loses in the second round of the presidential elections and gets voted out of power.

BRUSSELS - EU leaders welcomed on Thursday an agreement reached by the leaders of Serbia and the so-called Kosovo in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on March 18.

In conclusions adopted at the end of the first day of a Brussels summit, the European Council called on both parties to "implement expediently and in good faith their respective obligations."

Next to Loncar's face was the emblem of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian guerrilla army that fought Serbian security forces in the late 1990s to end a decade of repression in Kosovo under then strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbian tabloids had already accused the faculty of effectively recognising Kosovo, but Loncar, 37, said the posters left her "honestly shocked."