On Thursday President Gjorge Ivanov refused to attend the reception organized by Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade Vuk Jeremic. Ivanov was disappointed by the last statement of Jeremic that Belgrade supports Greece's stance in the name row with Macedonia. Nevertheless, on Thursday Ivanov met with his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic in Belgrade after which the cabinets of Macedonian and Serbian presidents Gjorge Ivanov and Boris Tadic sent a joint statement in which they say that Serbia recognizes Macedonia under its constitutional name, that both presidents welcome Greece’s initiative for the Western Balkan countries EU accession by 2014 as well as finding a solution for the church dispute between the Macedonian Orthodox Church  and Serbian Orthodox Church and that they agreed that the Kosovo issue will remain open in the bilateral relations.