The final status of Kosovo and Macedonia's position on this issue were the central topics of discussion at Macedonian Defense Minister Lazar Elenovski's talks in the NATO headquarters yesterday. The defense minister met with the Belgian, Netherlands, Estonian, and Slovenian ambassadors to NATO, while in the afternoon he also met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

It was announced that the NATO Council, composed of the foreign ministers of the member countries, would hold a meeting on 26 January at which the main topics of discussion will be Kosovo and Afghanistan.