The Ministry of Foreign Affairs promoted  in December the diplomatic journal Crossroads, aimed at promoting the Republic of Macedonia in the world and strengthening its public diplomacy through publishing articles addressing foreign policy issues.

"Crossroads is a response to the broader and evident need to increase our understanding of the region and the world and to foresee and deal with the new challenges and course of events," said Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki at the promotion of the first issue of Crossroads in the Club of Members of Parliament in the attendance of numerous representatives of the diplomatic corps and figures from the public and political life.

The publication of this journal, as well as of the Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues in association with the Macedonian Information center, is part of the activities for meeting the needs of the Macedonian diplomacy in the age of globalization. In that regard, Minister Milososki announced the establishment of the new Sector for Public Diplomacy, which should go on duty on 1 January 2007.

The diplomatic journal is a publication of high quality to come out quarterly in English. Its editor-in-chief Pajo Avirovik was pleased to underline at the promotion that the project, initiated by Minister Milososki, had been realized in less then three months.

The 15th anniversary of Macedonia's independence and the adoption of the first Constitution, addressed in the articles by Kiro Gligorov, Nikola Kljusev, Gillian Milovanovic, Doris Pack, Zhelyu Zhelev, Alain Le Roy and Umberto Vattani, are the leading topics of the first issue. The publication also carries an interview with former Turkish President Süleyman Demirel and essays by Srgjan Kerim, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Nikola Dimitrov and Blerim Reka.

The representatives of the diplomatic corps of Macedonia see this journal's release as a very significant event in Macedonia's diplomatic life.