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SPOKESMAN APPATHURAI: NATO
TO INVITE MACEDONIA TO BECOME MEMBER RIGHT AFTER NAME SETTLEMENT IS REACHED
NATO is ready to invite Macedonia to join the Alliance the next day right
after the name dispute is settled, without requiring any other additional
conditions, stated NATO Spokesman James Appathurai on Wednesday in Brussels.
He stressed that Thursday's meeting between Macedonian President Branko
Crvenkovski and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer would focus on
the implementation of NATO's Membership Action Plan and the application of
necessary reforms in the country.
Considering the Skopje-Athens row on the name of Macedonia, Appathurai said
he had no information that a breakthrough was made in the efforts involving
the dispute settlement.
President Branko Crvenkovski Thursday is to meet with EU Enlargement
Commissioner Olli Rehn, EU High Representative for the CFSP Javier Solana
and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. The progress of Macedonia
in the process of Euro-Atlantic integration will be reviewed at the meeting
with EU and NATO officials.
17TH INTERFEST OPENS
IN BITOLA
The 17th international festival of classical music, Interfest–Bitola is
opening today with a programme abounding in music events by 12 October.
The organizers, Milica and Kiril Ribarski are announcing performance of
renowned music artists from nine countries: Italy, France, Germany, Norway,
Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria and Macedonia.
An opening ceremony with a gala opera concert at the Institute Museum
Gallery this evening will see performance of Sabrina Vienelo, Italian
soprano who is performing in opera houses in Rome, Venice, Palermo; Tamara
Markovic, mezzo soprano from Serbia who has performed in Switzerland,
Romania, Germany; Mihajlo Arsenski, tenor from Macedonia, a soloist of opera
houses in Paris and Strasbourg; and Igor Durlovski, bass, who has performed
in Austria, Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany, Morocco.
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NEWS
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NEW LEADERSHIP MEETING ON
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
Leaders of four major parliamentary parties Thursday will meet again to
harmonise positions regarding the latest Government's proposal on revoke or
decrease of the census for election of president in the runoff, the diaspora
to be allowed to cast its vote and guaranteed Parliament seats to be secured
for the smaller ethnic communities which require changes of the Constitution
and the Electoral Code.
At last week's meeting leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and DPA, Nikola
Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Taci said that meeting focused
on all issues in connection to these topics, but almost everyone had either
different position or no determined stance.
SDSM had no position on the election of a president by the Parliament, which
is one of DUI's proposals, whereas VMRO-DPMNE, Gruevski added, in principle
deems that the president should be elected at direct elections. VMRO-DPMNE
will voice its opinion in the matter as soon as it learns the positions of
other political parties.
DPA is against the motion on revoking the runoff census at the presidential
elections, its leader Menduh Taci said. SDSM requested several other issues
to be discussed such as the name issue, the urgent adoption of laws in the
Parliament, the Rules of Procedures and the laws on labour relations and
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