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Albanian Party in FYROM presses Zaev on Language Law
FYROM’s new reformist government faces it first big test after a small coalition partner, the DPA – Movement for Reforms, said it would quit the Social Democrat-led government if it fails to adopt a law extending the official use of Albanian by early September.
Serbia: New PM to be sworn in by June 30
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Consultations about the forming and the composition of Serbia's next government are now in the final phase, state broadcaster RTS reported on Thursday.
According to the report, a majority of 156 members of the Serbian National Assembly ("people's deputies") has been secured to vote Ana Brnabic's cabinet in.
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Besa Refuses to Commit to Joining Macedonia Govt
The head of the ethnic Albanian Besa party in Macedonia, Bilall Kasami, on Wednesday said his party's participation in a new Social Democrat-led government will depend on whether other participants propose ministers who are entangled in corruption scandals.
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Xhaferi: There's no Tirana Platform; Albania: We back "platform of Albanians in Macedonia"
Talat Xhaferi says that Macedonian President Djordje Ivanov "has a deadline of ten days" to give the parliamentary majority the mandate to form a government.
Turkish police seize anti-tank missile components in Zonguldak port on Black Sea
Turkish police have seized two telescopes and two trigger mechanisms used in the making of anti-missiles in the northern port of the Black Sea province of Zonguldak, while detaining a suspect of Iranian origin, according to reports emerged on April 30.
VMRO-DPMNE Predicts 'Tension' if Opposition Runs Macedonia
If Macedonia's main opposition Social Democratic Union, SDSM, forms a new government in alliance with the main ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, the result will be tension in Macedonia, VMRO DPMNE said in a press statement.
Macedonia Opposition Looks Closer to Forming Govt
After a meeting on Wednesday night, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, confirmed that one key obstacle to backing a new opposition Social Democrat-led government - a new law extending the use of the Albanian language - had been removed.
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Deportation of Gülen would be positive if no extradition: PM Yıldırım
The Turkish government would consider the deportation of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen from the U.S. as a positive move if there is no direct extradition, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said.
Another Snap Poll Won't Solve Macedonia's Crisis: Survey
Amid the ongoing delay in forming a new government after the December 11 elections, an opinion poll published on Monday suggested that if the polls were repeated, the ruling VMRO DPMNE party and its bitter rival, the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, would win almost equal support, as they did two months ago.
Turkey anxiously waiting for Trump's call on Syria and Israel
The uncertainties about the U.S.'s new Middle East policy under Donald Trump have been straining nerves in Ankara, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan made public on Jan. 22 before heading his visit to three Africa countries.