Macedonia's position on the use of its constitutional name is known, Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva stressed at her meeting with her Greek counterpart Dora Bakoyannis in Thessaloniki yesterday, in the margins of the Summit of the Process for Cooperation in Southeastern Europe. The two foreign ministers also stated that the talks on the name would continue in the United Nations after the elections.

At the half-hour long meeting, Mitreva and Bakoyannis concluded that the relations between the two countries are intensifying, proof of which is the recent meeting between Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski and Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, as well as last night's announced meeting between Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and Karamanlis.