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BUJANOVAC- A draft law regulating the number of employees in the state administration and local self-government authorities should be adopted in April, Serbian Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said on Tuesday.

Macedonian opposition leader: End of regime is near

SKOPJE -- Macedonia's opposition SDSM party leder Zoran Zaev presented on Monday during a news conference in Skopje "new materials in connection with wiretapping."

He accused Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of organizing the surveillance.

BELGRADE - One of the world's biggest classical guitar festival, Belgrade Guitar Art Festival (GAF), will run from March 10 to 15.

GAF founder and director Bosko Radojkovic told Tanjug that the forthcoming edition of the international festival will be a real treat for guitar lovers.

Finance Minister Zoran Stavreski on Monday said the opposition's latest slew of wiretapped telephone conversations were aimed at sowing discord in the ranks of the government.

In new recordings that the opposition Social Democrats presented earlier on Monday, the minister is heard slating Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's policies as mad and irresponsible.

Opposition leader Zoran Zaev on Monday released the latest in a series of covert tapes, which he said were recordings of conversations between Finance Minister Zoran Stavrevski and Gordana Jankuloska that proved that the government was lying about country's finances being stable.

STARA PAZOVA - The Serbian government is working towards improving the position of the Serb community in all countries of the Western Balkans as part of efforts to improve Serbia's position in the international community, Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic said at a meeting of representatives of the Serb communities in the region Friday.

Nine new wiretapped telephone conversations were published on Friday by the Macedonian opposition Social Democrat leader, Zoran Zaev, which allegedly show the Prime Minister telling a minister to raze a building owned by a political enemy.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Interior Ministry has managed to significantly reduce the number of Albanian illegal immigrants trying to cross the border, and no such case was recorded in the last two days, Marija Obradovic, chairperson of the parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs, stated on Thursday.

More than 100 journalists in Macedonia have been lately subject to illegal wiretapping, Zoran Zaev, the leader of the opposition Social Democrats has argued.

Over a hundred Macedonian journalists were wiretapped, including the editors of pro-government media as well as journalists that critique the government, opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev announced on Wednesday while unveiling his fourth political "bombshell".