Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov held Wednesday an informal meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou at the sidelines of the OSCE Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. Meetings focused on information and opinion exchange regarding current developments in both countries and the future regional cooperation. Ivanov, who is participating at the OSCE Summit, met with his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic, Albanian Bamir Topi, Bulgarian Georgi Parvanov and Turkish president Abdullah Gul. Ivanov also met with OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek.

President Ivanov stated that OSCE had a significant role in Macedonia, it did a good job and helped the country in transforming from beneficiary of its services to contributor over its goals of promoting and spreading the zone of peace, stability and security and that Macedonia is today a model of multiethnic coexistence.