"There arethreecountriesin the WesternBalkans that are aspiring to join. That isCroatia, Albania, andthe formerYugoslav RepublicofMacedonia," Appathurai said.
A camera only shows women's legs walking on high heels disappearing in the crowd, while an announcer encourages women to vote "independently" in the presidential and local elections Sunday in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
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On Thursday the United States gave the government a boost when it announced it would henceforth recognise the country as Macedonia, rather than theFormerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia (FYROM) which it has been known as for more than a decade.
Ms. Elisabeta Kanceska Mileska, Minister of Culture ofTheformerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia, invited the Director-General, to the next Summit ofthe Heads of States of South-Eastern Europe in Ohrid on 1-2 June 2013, coinciding with the 10th anniversary ofthe first Summit.
Ministers of Science and Education from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and theRepublicof Srpska also took the floor, as did the Deputy Minister from TheformerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia and the State Secretary of Serbia.