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Minareport claims that US Ambassador to FYROM (Macedonia) Jess Baily has been directly involved in the wiretapping affair targeting Serbian diplomats and officials.

The Macedonian website referred to Baily as a CIA officer "whose cover is 'US ambassador to Macedonia'."

Serbia's First Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic spoke on Thursday with FYROM's (Macedonia's) Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov.

The Serbian government announced this, adding that they discussed "resolution of open issues, and agreed to meet on Friday in Nis (southern Serbia)."

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Serbia's decision to withdraw its embassy staff from Macedonia is in fact "a message to Skopje."

The message is that Serbia "knows what they laid their heads together for, and what they agreed on," First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following Press Release.

We condemn the participation of fYROM’s Consul General in Toronto, Jovica Palacevski, in an irredentist event, a participation that constitutes yet another violation by fYROM of the Interim Accord, which requires abstention from any action supporting territorial claims.

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The new government in Skopje is stepping up its efforts with the goal of FYROM (Macedonia) becoming a NATO member.

Tanjug is reporting this on Tuesday, citing an article published by Bloomberg.

Macedonia's new Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov, has paid a first to Athens, where he met his counterpart, Nikos Kotzias, in a warm atmosphere that some hope may pave the way to a solution of the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name.

Greece objects to the name "Macedonia", claiming it implies a territorial aspiration to the Greek province of the same name.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the inclusion of Montenegro into the NATO military alliance was a decision that served a geopolitical project. Mrs. Lavrov said the inclusion of Montenegro into the alliance did not bolster NATO’s security in any way during a press conference alongside his Slovak counterpart Tuesday.

The Deputy President of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), Radmila Šekerinska, said she sees a “political plan” behind Thursday’s clashes inside FYROM’s parliament and blamed the “system” of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski and the political decisions of FYROM President Gjorge Ivanov for the escalation of political tensions in the country.

Thousands of angry protestors took to the streets of FYROM after EU officials allegedly tried to meddle in the nation’s domestic politics.

Demonstrators took to the capital of Skopje chanting “Macedonia! Macedonia!”. What started this reaction was that the EU commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn reportedly rejected proposals to meet with nationalists.

Right away this title is going to get a wide variety of reactions. Some people are already angry that anyone could say that Alexander wasn’t Greek or that he was only Macedonian, even saying that he was both could rile some people up. On the other hand, some people may have no idea how big an issue this has been in recent years and haven’t given a thought to the ethnicity of Alexander.