The leaders of the parliamentary parties and President Branko Crvenkovski failed to coordinate their positions on the name issue at their meeting on Monday. This means that Nikola Dimitrov, Macedonia’s representative in the talks on the name dispute, and his associate Martin Protoger, chief of staff of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, will go to the meeting with UN mediator Matthew Nimetz in New York today without a coordinated state position on the name.

The stumbling block is the double formula, which the Government, that is, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is insisting on. This position is unacceptable to President Crvenkovski and the opposition, who believe that this is contradictory to the state’s possible active participation in the talks.