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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Skopje: UN “Name” Mediator Arrives February 23
09 February 2010 | Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

The UN envoy in the Athens-Skopje “name” dispute, Matthew Nimetz, will pay a visit to Skopje for a fresh round of talks with Macedonian leaders on February 23.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Albania Court To Review Greek Territorial Deal

Tirana | 26 November 2009 |
 
Ionian Sea map
Ionian Sea map
Albania's constitutional court accepted on Thursday an appeal by the opposition Socialist Party to review the legality of a territorial agreement with Greece, which delineates the continental shelf between the two countries in the Ionian Sea.

The agreement signed by Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his Greek counterpart Costas Karamanlis in late April in Tirana, created a stir of controversy in the local media which accused the Albanian government of giving 225 square kilometers of its territorial waters to its southern neighbour.

The media accused Berisha and the Ministry of Defense of not delineating the division of the continental shelf according to the equidistance principle of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS, on which the agreement was based, a charge which the Ministry of Defense has flatly denied.

In a statement released on the Thursday the court announced that it will hold the hearing on the constitutionality of the agreement on 8 December. It also suspended the procedures for the ratification of the agreement in parliament until a final decision is reached by the legal panel.  



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Comments:
this deal is nul
2009-11-26 17:34:32
as the president of Albania has not authorised any body to do this deal,those who have done it are trators. The prime minister,who initiate this deal for the sake of some of his family friends,has no legal mandate to deal for the exchange of territory,or its selling to a foreign nation! Berisha in this case,with all his minister is out of his duties!He has a great job to do with home affairs today!
lili

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