Europe

Brussels, 12 July, 2004— The foreign ministers of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda decided on Sunday in the Belgian capital, Brussels, to reinitiate economic cooperation by reactivating the Economic Community […]

Istanbul, Turkey, 29 June, 2004— Questions about Iraq’s return to sovereignty 48 hours ahead of schedule and the effort of democracies to fight terrorism pushed other NATO issues to the background at a joint press […]

Brussels, 15 June, 2004— The NATO-Ukraine Commission met at ambassadorial level in Brussels, Belgium, June 14 to discuss Ukraine’s contributions to allied operations and the progress it is making toward democratic reforms. Allied ambassadors welcomed […]

Geneva, 4 June, 2004— A high-level donor meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday appealed for at least US $236 million to help an estimated 2.2 million victims of war and ”forced ethnic displacement” in western […]

The Hague, 25 May, 2004— The U.N. war crimes tribunal has indicted retired Croatian General Mirko Norac for war crimes committed in the early 1990s, including crimes against humanity (persecutions on political racial or religious […]

Washington, 19 May, 2004— The European Union (EU) has condemned the recent trials and sentencing of 13 more Cuban human rights activists and journalists, who the 25-nation bloc said were arrested ”while peacefully exercising their […]

Johannesburg/Brussels, 27 April, 2004— The European Union (EU) election observer mission to Malawi has denied an allegation by outgoing President Bakili Muluzi that foreign observers were campaigning for the opposition ahead of the 18 May […]

Kosovo, 21 April, 2004— Some 26 inmates at a detention centre in Kosovo have begun a hunger strike to protest delays in the hearing of appeals of two men found guilty of war crimes, a […]