Matthew Palmer

The US State Department announced it is targeting three senior members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), following a visit of a US official to Ankara on Tuesday.

US Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Palmer conveys President Donald Trump's message at the Republic Day celebration reception at the Turkish embassy on Oct. 29.

Spokesperson at the European Commission, Maja Kocijancic, said in this in Brussels, on October 23, Beta agency reported.

EU High Representative Federica Mogherini's spokesperson said to Beta that "a date should be set" for a meeting between Belgrade and Pristina highest-ranking representatives.

A US State Department official has urged the people of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to participate in a September referendum on a deal meant to settle a festering name dispute with neighboring Greece.

After Serbian state-owned news agency Tanjug reported that a delegation from the main Kosovo Serb political party Srpska Lista (Serbian List) was in Washington to meet officials from the State Department, Congress and the Pentagon, the State Department said that it did not have any such meeting to announce. 

Matthew Palmer, acting deputy assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told the US Congress's House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on Wednesday that a post-election crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina could have serious consequences.

A few hundred people gathered in front of the Palace of Justice in Sofia on Thursday to protest against the extradition of Zhelyaz Andreev to the US over allegations that he participated in a conspiracy to sell prohibited aircraft parts to the Syrian regime.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken urgent action to clarify all the circumstances surrounding the case of Bulgarian citizen Zhelyaz Andreev.

And these officials will be "mostly from the West," writes the newspaper Blic.

The daily recalls that Vucic "announced in the past days that he does not expect good news" - but was "preparing specially for the ten-day talks."

According to the article, Vucic will try to find a new way to "resolve the conflict with Kosovo" during these meetings.

It is organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Brnabic will participate in a panel discussion of the prime ministers of the Western Balkans and in a panel on regional integration, where she will speak about the digital agenda for the Western Balkans region.