Macedonia Press Review ' May 11, 2010

DNEVNIK

Macedonia today takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers from Switzerland. The presidency will last for six months, after which Turkey will assume the presidency.

UTRINSKI VESNIK

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski explained that the statement given by the FM Antonio Milososki that the country might not get the desired start date for its EU accession talks during the Spanish EU presidency does not mean that the country is moving away from a solution for the name spat with Greece, which is the condition for obtaining the start date. However the opposition slammed Milososki’s statement as discouraging and confusing.

VREME

Around two thousand Macedonian Albanians gathered at a protest march in Skopje on Monday demanding the release of all ethnic Albanians who have been convicted on charges of terrorism related activities in the country.

They also demanded a halt to the government funded project for the revamp of the capital, dubbed “Skopje 2014”, saying that this project is discriminatory because it does not take into account the history of the Albanians. The organisers gathered under the umbrella association of the newly formed Council of Albanian Civil Organisations.