- President Gjorge Ivanov on Wednesday in New York met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and agreed that two decades is a long period for the Greek blockade of Macedonia and that one should not allow Europe, in the following decades to be ashamed of this dispute. Ki-moon informed Ivanov that he kept the promise and talked to Greek PM Antonis Samaras and required of him to intensify the talks for solving the name dispute.

President Ivanov is to address Thursday the 67th General Assembly of the UN and meet with mediator Matthew Nimetz.