President Crvenkovski pays three-day visit to Italy, where he met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday. Italy remains Macedonia’s friend and supporter in its Euro-Atlantic integration and it hopes that visa regime with EU will be liberalized soon, that Macedonia will start negotiations for membership in EU, and that it will complete process for accession to NATO, Italian President Napolitano stressed. He also urged both Macedonia and Greece to demonstrate moderation for speedier resolution of name dispute.

President Crvenkovski noted that Macedonia appreciates support of influential country like Italy, it expects continuation of friendly relations between two countries, and development of economic relations.