A meeting between the prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece is to take place in Brussels on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled for this afternoon, within the framework of the European Council summit. The two prime ministers will have a dialogue on the name issue.

The Croatian parliament has voted down the no-confidence vote in the government of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. After a 15-hour debate 79 MPs voted against and 62 in favor of the motion, which was tabled by 58 MPs from opposition parties.

If the Transnistria problem is resolved in a near future, this will tell positively on the settling of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, believes President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. He said yesterday that if even one of the existing several regional conflicts in the FSU area is resolved, this will give