•Macedonia marks 65th anniversary of start of antifascist resistance.

•President Branko Crvenkovski decides to recall Macedonian Ambassador to United States Ljupco Jordanovski.

•Assembly discusses amendments to decision on participation of Macedonian Army forces in Altea peace mission in Bosnia.

•SDSM carries no-confidence motion against current party leader Vlado Buckovski at party convention on 7 October.

SDSM leader Vlado Buckovski was not given a vote of confidence at the party convention held on 7 October. A total of 200 delegates voted confidence in Buckovski, while 339 did not. After the results of the voting were announced, Buckovski stated that a special congress would be held toward the middle of November.

• INTERIOR MINISTRY OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO MICROSOFT CASE

• PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI REJECTS INTERIOR MINISTRY ACCUSATIONS

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The Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) will not respect the law for the police if the Assembly ratifies the same without the Badinter principle. BDI representatives claim that the new law would also be ignored by the ethnic Albanians in Macedonia.

•Assembly continues debate on law for police despite obstructions by BDI and PPD.

Officials of TTK Bank of Skopje and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are going to sign a deal today according to which EBRD will become a minority shareholder of TTK Bank, which came into existence with the merger of Teteks kreditna banka and Tetovska banka.

•UN Representative for Kosovo Joachim Ruecker meets with Macedonian President Crvenkovski, PM Gruevski, and Foreign Minister Milososki in Skopje.

A new factory for production of working clothes, Arlen Macedonia, was put to work in Delcevo. It is a Macedonian-Polish investment of 1.2 million euros with a 120-strong workforce.

• SDSM TO VOTE FOR LAW FOR POLICE

• GRUEVSKI TO REORGANIZE PARTY

• US SENATORS WANT MACEDONIA IN NATO

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•Committee for Relations with NATO holds first session, which is chaired by Prime Minister Gruevski.

The Government is prepared to show results in the reforms and then to talk about a date for negotiations for membership in the EU, Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki told the ambassadors of the EU member countries.

•Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska addresses North-South European economic forum in Oslo.

Industrial production in August 2006 went up by 11.3 percent from the 2003 average, 1.5 percent from July and 9 percent from August last year, the State Statistical Office said.

•Assembly debates structure of Committee for Relations among Communities.

Companies from Kazakhstan are going to start exploring early next year where and how to invest in Macedonia, while Macedonian officials are going to attend the Power Forum in Kazakhstan in October.

•Law for police enters assembly procedure.

Macedonia and Norway signed a readmission agreement in Skopje yesterday.

Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Norwegian Ambassador to Macedonia Carl Schiotz Wibye signed the agreement on behalf of their respective countries.

• ENTRY IN NATO, PRIORITY OF NEW GOVERNMENT

• PARLIAMENTARIANS TO DEBATE LAW FOR POLICE

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“The Republic of Macedonia has always considered its multicultural and multi-confessional character to be advantage, and not handicap” - said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia Antonio Milošoski in his address at the High Level Conference on Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace, the Foreign Ministry informed.

On the occasion of the beginning of Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski extended congratulations to the head of Islamic community in Macedonia , Reis Ul Ulema Haxhi Sulejman Efendi Rexhepi.

•President Crvenkovski, FM Milososki met with UN mediator in name dispute talks Matthew Nimetz in New York. Macedonian positions on name reaffirmed.

•Sulejman Rexhepi was elected new head of the Islamic Religious Community of Macedonia

"Macedonia will accept any solution on Kosovo future status that would not endanger the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Macedonia," PM Nikola Gruevski said following the meeting with Kosovo interim Government PM Agim Ceku.