Possible independence of Kosovo could threaten the stability of this region, Serbian President Boris Tadic said yesterday following his meeting with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski.

• CRVENKOVSKI AND TADIC ASSESS EURO ATLANTIC INTEGRATION COMMON PRIORITY OF BOTH STATES

• NUMBER OF UNDECIDED VOTERS INCREASES

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•Serbian President Boris Tadic pays one-day visit to Macedonia at the invitation of his Macedonian counterpart Branko Crvenkovski.

•Official Tirana calls on parties of Macedonian Albanians to end election violence.

•US Ambassador Milovanovic appeals once again for holding fair and democratic elections.

•Serbian company Delta Holding presents plans for investment in Macedonia.

Business connections in the waste treatment sector is the new project of the International Financial Corporation supported by the Austrian Government to be implemented in Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

•BDI leader Ali Ahmeti appeals for end to election violence following recent incidents.

•Interior Ministry and UNDP office in Macedonia promote campaign against misuse of weapons and raising of public awareness.

The Canadian businessman of Macedonian origin, John Bitove, received support from the Government on Wednesday for the project, within whose framework the development of a feasibility study on Macedonia's potentials, the progress the country has made as a favorable business destination and the ongoing reforms has begun.

•Mayors of Skopje, Nis, and Sofia discuss experiences in regional projects in Sofia.

•Interior Minister Ljubomir Mihajlovski denies involvement of police in election incidents.

•Police file four criminal charges against perpetrators of election incidents.

•Macedonian platoon Rangers in Iraq replaced with platoon Wolves.

•Interior Ministry presents new passports and identity cards, which will start to be issued by end of year.

•US Ambassador Milovanovic talks with leaders of Albanian parties about election incidents.

•Controversial businessman Metodija Smilenski, charged with embezzling $30 million, arrested in Serbia.

•Government announces official start of CARDS twinning project Fight Against Drugs.

•Tension in State Election Commission defused with compromise on equal space for all parties on ballot papers in fourth constituency.

•Macedonia participates as mediator in constitutive session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

•Government discusses disputable auction for sites in center of Skopje.

The German concern Siemens is considering three projects for modernization of the health sector and six infrastructure projects in the filed of transport in Macedonia. The company will fund a few of them picked as priorities. This has been defined in the framework agreement that Economy Minister Fatmir Besimi and the member of the Board of Directors of Siemens, Johannes Feldmayer, signed on Thursday.

•Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski meets with German Minister for Economy and Technology Michael Glos.

•Election campaign for 5 July parliamentary elections starts, to last 20 days.

 

Mobimak officially announced on Tuesday the start of its re-branding process into T-Mobile. The amount of more than 5 million euros needed to this end will be provided by T-Mobile.

•National legislation and fight against organized crime discussed at seminar held in Struga under organization of OSCE and other international organizations.

•Anticorruption Commission uncovers organized crime in tax evasion in Bacilo case.

•Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski and President Branko Crvenkovski in Skopje.

•36 political parties sign codex for fair and democratic elections.

The forthcoming parliamentary elections will be the most important test for the Republic of Macedonia and its Euro Atlantic prospects, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said today following his meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski.

"On 5 July you will have to make the most important progress. The most important test will be the holding of 110 percent free, peaceful, and fair elections. I am convinced that you will succeed and that you will show that this is possible", De Hoop Scheffer said at today's press conference in Skopje.

•Macedonian Government adopts decision to recognize Montenegro as independent state.

•NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer meets Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski and President Branko Crvenkovski in Skopje.

86,293 ordinary shares of Makedonski telekomunikacii were traded today by the sales principle of piece by piece at a starting price of 390 denars per share. Thus a total of 404,000 shares of Telecom were sold piece by piece over the past three days, which means that about 0.4 percent of the capital went to the hands of small shareholders.

•Assembly adopts amendments to Criminal Code pertaining to election process.

•Deputy Prime Minister Sekerinska denies involvement of state institutions in arrest of El Masri.

Irish experts are going to teach the Government how to attract foreign investments through the project "Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Economy for Improving Macedonia's Investment Climate" funded by the European Union and carried out by the consulting house TDI Group.

•Prime Minister Buckovski meets with Austrian Prime Minister Wolfgang Schuessel in Vienna.

•UNMIK Chief Soren Jessen-Petersen meets with President Crvenkovski and Prime Minister Buckovski in Macedonia.

•President Crvenkovski rejects request for dropping of charges against Vraniskovski.

•IMF states economic situation in Macedonia improved.

•Forum for development of municipalities by way of pre-accession funds held in Skopje.

•No bids for second package of state-owned shares of Macedonian telecom.