Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić is visiting Macedonia on January 28 and 29.
“Macedonian and Serbian citizens will soon be able to travel across the border with identity cards only, without passports,†he said Friday.
The Kosovo Border Police took over the control of the border with Macedonia from KFOR on Saturday.
The ceremony was attended by KFOR Commander Erhard Buehler, Kosovo’s Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi, Macedonia’s Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska and Deputy Head of the EU Mission to Kosovo Andy Sparks.
Indian border guards Friday morning shot dead a suspected intruder trying to sneak into Indian territory from across the international border in Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir even as Pakistani forces also opened fire, defence sources said. Border Security Force (BSF) troopers noticed suspicious movement in Pargwal sector along the international border, 40 km [...]
Slovenia has sent a protest note to Croatia protesting what it sees as prejudging of the sea border between the two countries.
The Croatian national television reported that, according to Croatia’s rulebook, the border is established along the middle of the Bay of Piran, adding, however, that this will only be so until the completion of the demarcation between the two countries.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has arrived in Turkey for talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Both leaders are expected to discuss controversial Greek plans to build a fence along the two nations’ border.
Onion woes are likely to continue in India with Pakistan deciding to stop sending the commodity through the Attari-Wagah border check-post and also cutting down on the quantity due to a shortage in that country, an official said. According to a communication received from Pakistan’s commerce ministry, onions will not come through the land route [...]
Greece is planning to build a fence along its border with Turkey to keep out illegal immigrants, Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said. “Greek society has reached its limits in taking in illegal immigrants,” Papoutsis told Athens News Agency. “Greece can’t take it anymore.”
Pakistan’s progress in rooting out terrorists has “not come fast enoughâ€, and so the United States will continue insisting it to deal with the terror havens within its borders, US President Barack Obama has said. “We will continue to focus on our relationship with Pakistan. Increasingly, the Pakistani government recognizes that terrorist networks in its [...]
Abhkazia will in the near future start creating a full scale border infrastructure along the Inguri River, reports RIA Novosti. Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh informed the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby about his intention.
Crossings of Mali Zvornik (new bridge) and Ljubovija, on the border with RS, Bosnia, have been closed due to the flooding of the Drina River.
The Customs Directorate advised travelers use the Sremska RaÄa crossing instead, until the water level of the Drina stabilizes.
Protesting farmers have closed freight and bus traffic on two border crossings between Serbia and Hungary. Passenger vehicles are however crossing the border at Bezdan-Most and BaÄki Breg with no delays.
Serbia will introduce special border controls in order to prevent possible abuses of the no-visa regime it has with EU’s Schengen area countries. This was announced on Tuesday by Serbian Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić, who pointed out that, “as things stand, the White Schengen is not endangered”.
The Serbian football squad supporters returned from Italy late last night in several buses, after hooligan violence in Genoa on Tuesday. 19 suspected hooligans have been detained by Serbian police at the border. 16 others were arrested in Italy, including suspected leader Ivan Bogdanov.
Serbian and Montenegrin border services signed on Wednesday in Belgrade three protocols. The protocols are meant to cut by half the time passenger and freight trains spend at border crossings and were signed under the agreement on border control of railway traffic.
Pakistan said Sunday it has reopened a border crossing used by NATO to ship supplies into Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the Torkham crossing in the northwest Khyber tribal region on September 30, the same day NATO helicopters fired missiles at a Pakistani military post, killing two soldiers.
Iran has denied a report which said that Iranian border guards had arrested seven American soldiers, according to Iranian state TV quoted by Reuters.
Earlier reports quoting the Fars news agency said the soldiers had been held recently with two Iranians near the border with Pakistan, for allegedly trying to enter Iran illegally.
Border police arrested four persons suspected of trying to smuggle cigarettes across the border with Romania. The suspects had in their possession 39 boxes with a total of 1,900 cartons of cigarettes with Serbian excise stamps on them.
Foreign outsourcing companies are facing fee hikes for work visas in a measure attached to a border security bill that passed the Senate. If signed into law, work visas will be more expensive and politicians can tout protecting American workers and securing the border, but will any of it help grow technology jobs in the U.S.? – The
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Border police seized 20 kilograms of heroin on Sunday night at the border crossing in Gradina. This is the largest seizure of drugs in Serbia this year, and the street value of the heroin is estimated at about EUR 500,000, Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić said.
Border police at the railway border crossing with Montenegro seized a large amount of cigarettes with the help of local Prijepolje police. According to the statement, during a search of the international train traveling from Bar to Belgrade, 1,497 cartons of cigarettes with no excise stamps were found in the ceiling of one of the train compartments.
