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FM MILOSOSKI MEETS ITALIAN
COUNTERPART D'ALEMA
Italy will urge the European Commission to recommend giving Macedonia an
accession date in 2008, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told
Wednesday his Macedonian colleague Antonio Milososki, reports MIA's special
correspondent from Rome.
D'Alema stated that Italy would provide support in Macedonia's EU
integration, but at the same time mentioned the difficulties in certain
countries regarding the European Constitution.
Pertaining to the NATO integration, the Italian FM said that Macedonia had
serioues chances for membership in 2008.
During the discussions, Minister Milososki asked D'Alema for facilitation of
the visa regime for Macedonian citizens.
FM Milososki resumes his visit to Italy on Thursday, meeting with President
of Italy's parliamentary delegation within NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Antonello Cabras and Italian Parliament Foreign Policy Committee Chairman
Umberto Ranieri.
US URGE TO CLOSE THE KOSOVO
ISSUE BY JUNE 2007, ROSEMARY DICARLO
USA urge the Kosovo issue to be finalised no later than June 2007, while in
the meantime, in the weeks to come, they will resume negotiations with
Security Council members sates, as well as with Serbia and Kosovo, stated
for BBC Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs.
DiCarlo, participating in Contact Group's talks for Kosovo in London,
failed to answer whether an agreement had been reached on Kosovo's future
status over the course of the London meetings. Nevertheless, she confirmed
that, unlike Washington, Moscow officially refuses to back Martti
Ahtisaari's blueprint.
According to the US deputy secretary, no speculations are needed considering
Russia's reaction in the upcoming weeks, nor speculations on US' response to
that.
- It is instrumental that US would like to resume the negotiations in order
to settle the Kosovo issue as soon as possible and in a most appropriate
manner, stated DiCarlo, adding that "everybody should work for the future,
instead keep on dealing with Balkans'Â tragic past".
US MISSILE DEFENSE, KOSOVO
TOP NATO MEETING AGENDA
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will defend a controversial US plan
to station missile defense bases on Russia's doorstep in Eastern Europe
during an informal meeting of NATO and Russian foreign ministers this week
in Oslo.
At Thursday's one-day meeting, Rice will also voice Washington's strong
backing for a UN proposal to grant independence to Serbia's NATO-protected
province of Kosovo despite Moscow's staunch opposition to the move, senior
US officials said.
The East-West frictions should be on prominent display when Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov joins his North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
counterparts for an afternoon meeting of the NATO-Russia council.
ZELS CELEBRATES 35TH
ANNIVERSARY
The Association of the Local Self-Governance Units (ZELS) is marking its
35th anniversary today.
On the occasion of the event, ZELS will hold the Fourth session of the
General Assembly in Skopje's Alexander Palace Hotel Thursday morning, while
the ceremonious marking is scheduled for the afternoon.
Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski, US Ambassador Gillian Milovanovich and EU
Ambassador Erwan Fouere are due to give greeting addresses.
ZELS will elect new members of the Steering Board as well as of the
Supervising Board at today's General Assembly, while ZELS's President Andrej
Petrov is expected to present the 2006 Steering Board Activities Report.
Completion of the three-year "Successful Decentralization Project", which
was aimed at providing assistance to the municipalities and ZELS to
establish and strengthen the local governance, will be marked at today's
ceremony, set up jointly by ZELS and DAI/USAID. |
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SUMMIT OF SEE HEAD OF STATES IN OHRID
A Summit of Head of States of South East European countries, dedicated to
harmonization of the regional with EU policy on providing energy resources,
will kick off today in Ohrid.
Macedonian President is the host of the Summit entitled "Long-Term Energy
Stability - Precondition for Economic Development".
Presidents of Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and the President of the
BiH Presidency, will take part at the event, whose working part will begin
on Friday.
Due to busy schedule of the Bulgarian President, his Deputy will arrive in
Ohrid, while the Romanian President canceled the visit several days ago.
The Ohrid Summit is the third in the series, after the ones held in Drac in
Karagjorgjevo. It is envisaged as the first highest-level political summit
in the region dedicated to regional issues, members of the President's
Cabinet informed at today's press briefing.
The need of elaborating a joint strategy for long-term energy stability
gains importance in the context of international community's efforts to
promote different forms of improved energy efficiency as prerequisite for
economic growth and environment protection, it was said at the press
briefing.
The attendants of Ohrid's Summit are expected to come up with joint final
declaration, as well as to hold a series of bilateral meetings on the
sidelines of the event. |
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