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|- | North Macedonia || "The Republic of Macedonia will decide its view when we deem it mosappropriate for our interests," said President Branko Crvenkovski, soon after the declaration of independence. Crvenkovski also said that Macedonia would follow the position of NATO and the EU on Kosovo, but pointed out that nations in the two organisations have to yet to assume a common stance. On 27 March 2008, the Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Milošoski, expressed his concern regarding the delay in the technical demarcation of the Macedonia-Kosovo borderline, and asked that the issue be solved in accordance with the Ahtisaari proposal for Kosovo reiterating Macedonia's support for the Ahtisaari plan, which had been endorsed before the declaration of independence. On 10 July, Foreign Ministry spokesman Petar Čulev announced that Macedonia will accept new Kosovan passports. Members of both ethnic Albanian parties in Macedonia, the DUI and the DPA, have been vocal in their support of recognition of Kosovo. On 2 October in Brussels, President Crvenkovski stated that the Macedonian government will soon announce its decision regarding Kosovo's independence, and the time for reflection and analysis has passed: "I expect from the government, which has the constitutional competence regarding this, to announce very soon the stance of our country concerning the independence of Kosovo". ||EU candidate country
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