President Branko Crvenkovski of Macedonia

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Crvenkovski was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of SFR Yugoslavia.

Ohrid hosted the Southeast European Defence Ministerial meeting last week.

Branko Crvenkovski was elected president of Macedonia on 28 April 2004, in a second round of elections.

Crvenkovski was born on 12 October 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Crvenkovski was elected member of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia at the first multi-party elections in the former Yugoslavia in 1990 after serving for several years as head of department at the Semos company in Skopje.

A former communist, Crvenkovski has been at the head of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) since April 1991.

As the broad opposition coalition led by Crvenkovski's SDSM won the 15 September 2002 parliamentary elections, Crvenkovski was nominated by his party for the prime ministerial post and on 7 October, former President Boris Trajkovski entrusted him with the mandate to form the country's new government.

Crvenkovski was declared the winner with 63 per cent of the votes.

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Bulgarian politicians have to speak about Macedonia very clear.

Genuine negotiations on the name issue are unlikely to start any time soon, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski said at his annual address to lawmakers.

Talks between Greece and Macedonia at the UN over the 'name row' are practically blocked with no signs of progress, Macedonia's President Branko Crvenkovski has claimed.

But in this case we will tell you why we think Branko Crvenkovski is the worse choice for Macedonia.

Branko Crvenkovski is the moral killer of President Trajkovski and independent Macedonia Krste Petkov Misirkov a great Bulgarian Patriot of the 20 Century Bulgarian politicians have to speak about Macedonia very clear.

Macedonian President-elect Branko Crvenkovski is only 41, but he is one of Macedonia's most experienced politicians.

By contrast, Mr Crvenkovski has come into his own at times of crisis.

Since 2002 Mr Crvenkovski has been working on implementing the Ohrid agreement by giving ethnic Albanians more collective rights.

Mr Crvenkovski is a strong leader who is not keen on delegating too much power.

The Social Democratic Union has remained a highly-centralised party while Mr Crvenkovski has combined the positions of prime minister and party leader.

Mr Crvenkovski is unlikely to want to relinquish all his authority when becomes president.

of the independent Republic of Macedonia.

It is not forbidden, but on the contrary encouraged for a president to communicate with political parties”, Crvenkovski said in an open letter on Friday.

Three months before the end of his mandate, Crvenkovski is still one of Macedonia's most popular politicians, and could swiftly take the helm of the Social Democrats after a new president is elected in March.

Given that Branko Crvenkovski is vigorously pursuing party activities, including meetings and visits, it is obvious that he is effectively taking over the post of the head of Social Democrats” VMRO DPMNE told media on Thursday.

Crvenkovski has said Gruevski is using state assets to attend his party meetings across the country, and will only resign the moment Gruevski steps down as well.

The democratic processes in Macedonia are blocked and slow because of the low democratic capacity of the current power, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski said at the forum Macedonia challenges and perspectives, which took place in the town of Strumica on Wednesday, the Macedonian Utrinski Vesnik reads.

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski said on Thursday his country is prepared to make ''certain compromise'' to Greece on name dispute in order to get invited into NATO.

TIRANA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Macedonia is ready for the sake of the future of this country to pay a certain price, but not prepared to pay any kind of price, Crvenkovski said after meeting his visiting German counterpart Horst Koehler.

Before the gathering, Crvenkovski met with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to discuss the decision of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) to walk out from his cabinet.

Crvenkovski said they were numerous.

Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski has said that recent opposition rhetoric calling for the Ohrid agreement to be scrapped and for Macedonia to be split along ethnic lines could lead the country back to the brink of civil war.

However, they suffered heavy losses when Macedonia went to the polls in late 2002, and have since been in opposition to the ruling coalition Crvenkovski leads with the party of former guerrilla leader, Ali Ahmeti.

Crvenkovski said he regards the recent resignations as a last-ditch effort to ethnically divide Macedonia.

Kostov, an economist and former banker, became prime minister in May He succeeded Branko Crvenkovski in the position after Crvenkovski was elected president to replace Boris Trajkovski, who was killed in a plane crash in February.

President Crvenkovski is expected to name a new prime minister by December 1, without calling early elections.

He demanded a re-vote and said Crvenkovski was not the "legitimate president of Macedonia.

Crvenkovski is expected to appoint a political ally as prime minister, with Interior Minister Hari Kostov and Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski seen as likely candidates.

Crvenkovski is expected to be elected president in the runoff ballot against Kedev, who won the second-largest number of votes, on April 28.

His death, along with the deaths of eight others on the plane, occurred the same day that Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski was to submit the country’s formal application for membership in the European Union in Ireland, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

over Macedonia's constitutional name.

intentionally left out of the Ohrid Accords during negotiations in 2001.

President Crvenkovski said on Wednesday that mediator Nimetz is likely to table a new concrete proposal.

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski says that fair and democratic elections are a key condition for Euro-Atlantic integration and the country’s future.

Crvenkovski said the participants at the summit had "different views" on Kosovo, but added that "everyone agreed that the regional stability is of utmost importance.

President Branko Crvenkovski expresses concern about poor water management in the world - | UNESCO.

8% of the vote counted, Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski had about 42.

Branko Crvenkovski was replaced by his interior minister Hari Kostov as Prime Minister, with Siljan Avramovski taking up the vacant position at the Interior Ministry.

Crvenkovski says Macedonia supports fair compro.

Macedonia's Crvenkovski says name talks with At.

Asked whether such statement opened Pandora's Box regarding border changes in the region, President Crvenkovski said that it didn't hold such power.

Branko Crvenkovski was welcomed with an official ceremony at the Sofia Alexander Nevski Square.