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A top official in the ruling Social Democratic Party and MP in North Macedonia, Frosina Remenski, has proclaimed her innocence following a hearing at the Skopje Criminal Court in connection with a new probe into the so-called "Extortion" case.

The parliamentary commission in North Macedonia on appointments and dismissals at Thursday's closed session unanimously supported the dismissal of the suspended chief of the Special Prosecution, Katica Janeva, who has been detained in relation to the "Extortion" scandal. All 13 MP members of the commission voted for her dismissal.

It is being referred to in public as a diplomatic scandal, at least, as the most clumsily worded political stance, Radio Free Europe reports.

Serbian Radical Party MP Vjerica Radeta told BIRN that she and her party colleague Petar Jojic will not go to the The Hague voluntarily to face trial for contempt of court, despite the latest ruling by the UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.

With the domestic political landscape in an increasingly fluid state, Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos did not give up his parliamentary seat on Friday, as he had announced he would do, after Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis asked him to wait until MPs have voted on the NATO accession protocol for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia next week.

Junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) will vote against the government if there is a no-confidence vote in Parliament, party MP Kostas Katsikis said in comments on television on Thursday.

The compensation was in the amount of of 50,000 kunas, the Croatian currency, Zagreb-based website Index is reporting on Wednesday.

A report of the UN Secretary-General on the work of the UNMIK for the period from July 16-October 15 will be examined during the session, the Serbian government has announced.

Vucic also announced the possibility of expanding military cooperation with that country.

"I believe that we will get something else from China, get something, and pay for something, but I will only say it when I get a confirmation from the president of that country," Vucic told reporters on Tuesday.

"I am in Budapest and I have requested political asylum from the authorities in Hungary," Gruevski wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. He added that in the past few days, he received death threats.