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A leading member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), who is also the deputy speaker of Parliament, has once again repeated the party’s aspirations to implement a presidential system in Turkey.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic has been elected rapporteur of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly for the second time.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday accused Russia of failing to fully back a peace plan to end the bloodshed in the east of his country.
      
The plan "will only be able to work if Russia cooperates. Up to now unfortunately the support (from Moscow) has been insufficient," Poroshenko told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Joan Miro’s bronze sculpture “Femme aux beaux seins” (The Woman with Beautiful Breasts), is on display at the Baksı Museum, which won the Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014

The museum was established in 2010 in the village of Baksı by Professor Hüsamettin Koçan and is located 45 kilometers away from the eastern Black Sea city of Bayburt.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit Sarajevo on Tuesday, where he will meet with Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) officials.

Vucic will confer with Chair of the BiH Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda and chairs and deputy chairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serbian government's press office stated.

Kosovo assembly adopts law on special court

PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- The Kosovo assembly in Priština on Wednesday adopted a law to extend the mandate of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX).

BELGRADE- The Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Wednesday that all crimes must be solved and punished, expressing hope that the role of the self-styled "Kosovo Liberation Army" in the province will be revealed in an international court as "no other court has had the will or the courage to find the truth."

PRISTINA - Clint Williamson, the head of Eulex's special investigation team, has a large dossier on crimes committed by the former "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) and is expected to hand it over to the judges of a special court that will look into the findings of the former Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty, the Pristina-based Express daily has reported.

A vote last week in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE, condemning Russian actions in Ukraine has caused divisions in Serbia, especially within the opposition Democratic Party.

BRUSSELS - Director for Europe of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Lotte Leicht called on the Kosovo parliament in an open letter to extend the mandate for EULEX and back the constitution of a special court which would stage trials for individuals responsible for allegations included in the report filed by former rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Dick Marty co