Deputies from both the government and the opposition will be calling for meetings at the US Congress in order to lobby for putting Macedonia on the agenda at the NATO summit in Chicago, Dnevnik reports.

There is not much time left until the summit of the Alliance but Macedonia is not going to give up the fight for a favorable outcome. Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said in his interview with Dnevnik Wednesday that he did not trust that in the period to come the agenda of the summit could change to include the issue of enlargement. Macedonia, according to Gruevski, may be put on the agenda provided that the great powers exert pressure.

“The draft agenda of the summit was adopted in December and it does not include the enlargement process. We are fighting in fact now to change the agenda. However, only the great powers can change it provided they make effort but there are no signals they would,” Gruevski says.

Diplomats believe that the battle for the agenda should be fought through lobbying in the USA.