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MILOSOSKI: WE WILL NOT RESPOND EMOTIONALLY TO MESSAGES FROM PARIS
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MIC β July 4, 2008 β 11:44am
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With regards to the policy proclaimed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who accused Macedonia of being an undemocratic country and openly supported Greece in the name dispute, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said that the Republic of Macedonia would not assume any special measures as regards its bilateral relations with France.
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MACEDONIA REMAINS COMMITTED TO NATO DESPITE SUMMIT IN BUCHAREST
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MIC β July 3, 2008 β 1:04pm
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The Republic of Macedonia remains committed to NATO and EU integration, despite the summit in Bucharest. NATO is one of Macedonia’s priorities, as well as the country’s partner, and this remains the state’s official position. This position was reaffirmed by Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and Defense Minister Lazar Elenovski at the forum “Security in the Balkans, NATO after the Summit in Bucharest” in Skopje yesterday.
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MIC β July 2, 2008 β 12:29pm
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•French President Sarkozy tells his Macedonian counterpart Crvenkovski the name should stop being an obstacle to Macedonia s accession to the EU.
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BDI TO ENTER NEW GOVERNMENT
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MIC β July 2, 2008 β 11:50am
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The Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) will enter the new government. This is the result of the talks led between mandatary Nikola Gruevski and BDI leader Ali Ahmeti over the last few days, Vest reports. Gruevski and Ahmeti have already agreed on the chief contours of the future government and this new coalition could be made public as early as today, party sources said.
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DEMARCATION OF BORDER ON PART WITH KOSOVO STARTS
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MIC β July 1, 2008 β 11:51am
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The demarcation of the border between Macedonia and Kosovo started yesterday with the laying of a boundary column at the junction of the three state borders of Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania. The first boundary column was placed at the location known as Serupa, on Sar Mountain, at 2,100 meters above sea-level, in the presence of representatives of Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania, and representatives of the international community.
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UN MEDIATOR NIMETZ TO VISIT SKOPJE TODAY
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MIC β June 27, 2008 β 12:38pm
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UN mediator Matthew Nimetz will arrive in Skopje today where he will meet with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
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MIC β June 27, 2008 β 10:10am
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•Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, is paying an official visit to Macedonia today.
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EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE FOR BOTH BDI AND PDSH TO ENTER GOVERNMENT
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MIC β June 26, 2008 β 1:47pm
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Mandatary Nikola Gruevski gave BDI leader Ali Ahmeti and PDSH leader Menduh Thaci room to decide whether they agree to join the future government together. Gruevski proposed to Thaci and Ahmeti that they enter the new ruling coalition together and that they share five minister posts between them. The mandatary gave them one week to think about this proposal. The daily comments that it is not certain whether these parties will accept this proposal considering the big antagonism between them.
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MILOSOSKI: MACEDONIA RESOLVED TO MEET ALL EU INTEGRATION CRITERIA
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MIC β June 25, 2008 β 10:08am
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Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki stressed at the Tuesday summit in Brussels dedicated to the Balkans that Macedonia was resolved to meet the tasks required for joining the EU. However, as a small country Macedonia is worried that additional unprincipled conditions and obstacles which are not at all part of the Copenhagen criteria may also be set. "The EU should respect the principles it sets and evaluate the progress of the candidate countries on that basis. An EU member state abuses a bilateral name issue, puts pressure on Macedonia to renounce its right to national self-determination and blocks its European integration," he said.
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GRUEVSKI RECEIVES MANDATE FOR FORMATION OF GOVERNMENT
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MIC β June 24, 2008 β 2:24pm
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Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski gave the mandate for formation of the new government to VMRO-DPMNE Chairman Nikola Gruevski yesterday. Immediately after this, Gruevski started talks with PDSH and BDI on formation of a new ruling coalition.
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NEW PARLIAMENT CONSTITUTED
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MIC β June 23, 2008 β 9:33am
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New Macedonian Assembly was constituted on Saturday. VMRO-DPMNE’s Trajko Veljanovski was elected assembly chairman, receiving votes of 79 of 114 parliamentarians. BDI supported Veljanovski’s designation to this post, while PDSH boycotted constituting of Assembly, maintaining that results of repeated voting were suspicious.
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PRIME MINISTER GRUEVSKI: EU BENCHMARKS ARE OUR PRIORITY
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MIC β June 19, 2008 β 11:02am
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Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski met with EU Special Envoy for Security and Foreign Policy Javier Solana in Brussels yesterday. Gruevski said after the meeting with Solana, “The obligations ensuing from the eight benchmarks will be our top priorities. We will try to complete them as soon as possible so that the country could move forward as soon as possible. We will do this, not just because of the European Union, but also for ourselves and for a better life of the citizens of Macedonia”.
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PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI: MACEDONIA SHOULD BACK DOWN FROM DOUBLE FORMULA
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MIC β June 17, 2008 β 2:58pm
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Macedonia is prepared for an agreement with Greece and it is in the country's interest to continue the talks under the auspices of the UN. However, Macedonia will have to adapt its strategy to the new conditions, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski said in the interview for BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network), the media write.
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Gruevski will negotiate with both Ahmeti and Thaci
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MIC β June 17, 2008 β 10:02am
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Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will negotiate with both Ahmeti and Thaci. Sources from the governing VMRO-DPMNE say that a coalition with BDI is possible provided that Ahmeti does not repeat his mistake of 2006 when during the negotiations he blackmailed the then ruling coalition.
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PEACEFUL REPEAT OF VOTING β BDI DECLARES VICTORY
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MIC β June 16, 2008 β 1:19pm
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The repeat of the voting in 187 polling places in the Skopje, Kumanovo, and Tetovo regions on Sunday was held in a peaceful atmosphere, under intensified presence of the police and with a few isolated incidents. The elections were also monitored by foreign ambassadors, foreign monitors, and monitors of the MOST civic association. BDI declared victory at the elections on Sunday evening, stressing that it had won seven mandates more than PDSH.
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MIC β June 15, 2008 β 3:59pm
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•Rerun held in peaceful and calm atmosphere. •12 people were arrested by police in relation to the election re-run incidents. •SEC: Voter turnout 30,08% in election re-run by 13:00 pm •The voter turnout in election re-run by 10:00 o’clock is 12,40 percent, State Election Commission (DIK) Vice President Subhi Jakupi informed at a press conference.
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Voting did not start in three polling stations
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MIC β June 15, 2008 β 1:06pm
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Voting did not start in three polling stations in Tetovo Golema Recica (1985, 1986 and 1987) because the electoral material was stolen, said at the Sunday' press conference Subhi Jakupi, SEC Vice President.
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MILOSOSKI: WE EXPECT DATE FOR START OF NEGOTIATIONS
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MIC β June 11, 2008 β 1:48pm
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Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki stated that Macedonia expects to receive a date for start of the negotiations with the European Union, despite Greece’s threats that it would veto such decision and despite the violence at the elections.
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ULTIMATUM FOR VIOLENCE NOT TO BE REPEATED
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MIC β June 10, 2008 β 12:09pm
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The international community representatives in Macedonia want the Government to take preventive measures to ensure that the election violence is not repeated. The international monitors already stated that they are not satisfied with the response of the state institutions on 1 June. This message was conveyed to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska by the ambassadors of the EU and NATO member countries at yesterday’s meeting in the Macedonian Foreign Ministry.
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REPEAT OF VOTING CONFRONTS PARTIES OF ALBANIANS
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MIC β June 9, 2008 β 1:57pm
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BDI welcomed, while PDSH criticized the State Election Commission’s (DIK) decision to cancel the voting in 193 polling places. Both parties believe that they will win the elections following the voting on 15 June, when the elections will be repeated in the first, second, and sixth constituencies. PDSH accused DIK of acting on the orders of Ali Ahmeti and of working against the interests of the Albanians.
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ELECTION COMMISSION VOIDS VOTE IN 68 POLLING STATIONS
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MIC β June 6, 2008 β 11:54am
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The State Election Commission voided the vote in 68 polling stations in the first, second and sixth electoral units. In the words of the Commission's spokesman, Zoran Tanevski, based on complaints from the Democratic Party of Albanians (PDSH), the Commission annulled the vote in 13 polling stations, or more specifically, in 2133 in Jegunovce, 821 and 829 in Zajas, 502 in Gostivar, 785, 790, 791, 792, 793 and 796 in Oslomej, 1101 in Kumanovo, 2473 in Cucer Sandevo and 2890 in Cair.
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PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI CANCELS PARTICIPATION IN SUMMIT IN ATHENS
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MIC β June 5, 2008 β 2:41pm
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The Greek authorities do not allow the plane of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, with which Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski was supposed to travel to Greece next week, to land in Athens, state news agency MIA reports. Consequently, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski cancelled his participation in the UNESCO Summit of Presidents of Southeastern European Countries, which will be held in Athens on 13 June.
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