The opposition should return to parliament and all suspicions and indications of crimes resulting from the wiretapped conversations should be investigated, said US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Hoyt Brian Yee, after meeting Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in Skopje on Thursday.

He also met Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki and BDI leader Ali Ahmeti and is yet to meet SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and Ombudsman Ixhet Memeti.

“We discussed the importance of overcoming this crisis, we discussed the importance of the government meeting its responsibility to uphold the basic democratic values that are enshrined in Macedonia’s Constitution, to meet the responsibilities that it was elected to uphold and to defend and to promote, and for the government to meet and to reaffirm its commitment to the Euro-Atlantic principles on which Macedonia will continue to make progress towards joining NATO and the European Union.