FYROM: Opposition submits 35,000 amendments to language bill

FYROM (Macedonian) Assembly President Talat Xhaferi expects the opposition VMRO-DPMNE to withdraw more than 35,000 amendments that it submitted to the Bill on Language.

Earlier this month, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov refused to sign this bill, that would make Albanian the country's second official language, into law, and sent it back to parliament.

Xhaferi, who is from the DUI party representing ethnic Albanians, said Macedonia's coalition government was "determined to pass this law."

According to Tanjug, he told a news conference that the opposition should act constructively, instead of "blocking the parliament for the next six months with this number of amendments."

In his conversation with journalists, Xhaferi also "did not rule out the possibility that amendments will not be included in the parliamentary procedure."

Sitel TV quoted him as...