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Ali Ahmeti: “If there’s no domestic consensus for the solution to the name dispute, isolation will occur”. -He hasn’t heard the Greek proposal to name.

FYROM News, Skopje, November 1, 2013

Head of BDI, Ali Ahmeti has declared that in case the issue of the name dispute is not redefined and if no domestic consensus is reached in order to resolve this problem, then the country will go toward isolation.

He has stressed this in an interview for the daily “Dnevnik”, stressing that wide inter-ethnic consensus is needed for the solution to the name dispute.

Asked as to why he has refused the offer of the Prime Minister and leader of VMRO-DPMNE for early elections, Ahmeti said that the elections cannot be a solution. “But, until the end of December, we will review our positioning once the EU Council decides on the negotiations with FYROM”, said Ahmeti.

FYROM news: F.Y.R.O.M.'s Minister Slated For Honouring Albanian Fighters

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FYROM's President has criticised the presence of government ministers at a ceremony laying flowers before a monument to ethnic Albanian guerilla fighters killed in the 2001 conflict.

In the country’s first ever institutional expression of respect for former National Liberation Army fighters who died in the conflict, Defence Minister Fatmir Besimi, an ethnic Albanian, accompanied by other ethnic Albanian ministers and uniformed persons, laid flowers and bowed before an NLA monument in Slupcane, near Kumanovo, a former NLA stronghold.

FYROM news: Amnesty International mentions in its annual human rights report: Human Rights in F.Y.R.O.M. deteriorated ...

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“Respect for human rights deteriorated throughout the year” reads the report on 2011....

The human rights group states that FYROM acted “in violation of FYROM’s international obligations” when in July 2011 the parliament changed the 2002 Amnesty Law, which granted amnesty to former ethnic Albanian insurgents in the 2001 conflict, to include those charged with war crimes.

The move resulted in the prosecution dropping four war crimes cases, returned in 2008 from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to FYROM. All four cases involved members of the now disbanded Albanian insurgents, some of which now occupy high political positions.