•President Crvenkovski and Foreign Minister Milososki participate in UN General Assembly meeting in New York.

•PM Gruevski met Saturday PPD leader Vejseli.

•Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski attends WB, IMF Group Annual Assembly.

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is scheduled to meet Saturday with leaders of LDP, VMRO-NP and PPD Risto Penov, Vesna Janevska and Abdylhadi Vejseli.

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It is fact that that the accounts of the budget users are attacked in a way, but we're not going to allow organized depletion of the central budget, Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski commented on the surge of executive court rulings, inherited from the previous government, draining money from the budget.

•Prime Minister Gruevski meets ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte in The Hague.

•PM Gruevski meets EU Security and Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana and European Parliament President Josep Borrell in Brussels.

•PM Gruevski meets EC Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn in Brussels Tuesday asking for support for new government reform agenda.

Macedonia's foreign currency reserves currently cover 4.7 months of imports, exceeding the level required by the IMF. The Fund insisted that the foreign currency reserves this year total 4.3 months of import.

•PM Gruevski invited leaders of SDSM, BDI and PPD to separate meetings in Skopje.

Turkish products will be on display at the Skopje Fair grounds from 14 to 16 September. The fair's end is bringing Turkey's export potentials closer to the Macedonian businessmen and paving the way for setting up business contacts.

French President Jacques Chirac, German President Horst Koehler, Dutch Queen Beatrix, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Irish President Mary McAleese, Israeli President Moshe Katsav, and Australian President Michael Jefrrey are just some of the world statesmen who sent congratulatory messages to President Crvenkovski on the occasion of 8 September, Day of Independence of the Republic of Macedonia.

•World statesmen send congratulatory messages to President Crvenkovski on the occasion of 8 September, Day of Independence of the Republic of Macedonia.

•Government adopted the law for the police at its last session

25 January 1991:

Macedonia’s Parliament, following the first multi-party elections, unanimously adopted a Declaration of Sovereignty.

8 September 1991:

An overwhelming majority of the Macedonian public approved a referendum on independence.

    - 1,495,807 were registered to vote for the referendum.

    - 1,074,855 (71.86%) actually cast their vote.

Out of registered voters, 1,021,981 (68.32%) voted for independence. Out of those who actually voted, 95.08% were for independence. Out of the registered voters, 38,986 (2.61%) voted against independence. 13,986 ballots were registered as invalid.

•Head of the Mission of the IMF for Macedonia, Mark Griffiths  pays working visit to Macedonia.

•US President George W. Bush congratulated Nikola Gruevski on his election as Prime Minister.

"There are a lot of small banks that concentrate on clients who are also their founders. This raises problems such as conflict of interest. Further liberalization of the entry of foreign banks is needed.

Macedonia expects bigger financial support from the World Bank, with which it will implement reforms in the most important spheres over the next four years.

•Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis congratulates Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski on election of new Government.

•New Moldavian, Ghanaian Ambassadors to Macedonia presented credentials to FM Milososki Wednesday.

The United States of America yesterday congratulated the new Macedonian Government on its election and it welcomed the peaceful transition of power.

"This sends a positive signal to the region with regard to the progress that the democratic institutions in Macedonia have made since the country won independence in year 1991", states the statement of the US Embassy in Skopje.

•RTV Management Committee elects new executive manager and deputy manager today.

•New Government cut the VAT for agricultural raw materials and equipment from 18 percent to 5 percent.

Interview with new Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki for "Dnevnik"

There are no reasons why the new Government should not make a serious attempt to develop closer relations with Germany, which can lobby for Macedonia's intents to become a member of NATO and the EU, new Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said.

•New Macedonian Government to convene for its first session.

•PM Gruevski met IMF representative to Macedonia Monday.

•Senior government delegation from China is on a two-day official visit to Macedonia as of Monday.

At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, a Delegation of the People’s Republic of China headed by Tang Jiaxuan, State Councillor of the People’s Republic of China, pays an official visit to the Republic of Macedonia on 28-29 August 2006.

•Macedonian Assembly elects new Macedonian Government late Saturday evening with 68 votes for, 22 votes against, and no abstentions.

The talks between Macedonia and Greece over the differences on the name will continue within the frames of the United Nations, mandatary Nikola Gruevski announced today. He explained that the basic postulate in these talks is for Macedonia to maintain its right to use its constitutional name in international communication.