- Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki before the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee presented the priorities of the Macedonian foreign policy for 2013. Poposki announced active politics with Greece and Bulgaria in order to normalize the good-neighborly relations. He invited Greek counterpart Dimitris Avramopoulos to come to Macedonia to discuss the name issue while Macedonian MPs demand an invitation to be sent to Bulgaria’s state leadership and open talks with Macedonia to be launched. Due to the boycott of opposition MPs, Poposki said that their conduct causes damage to the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration.