Macedonian Government doesn't consider possibility for abandoning name negotiations with Greece

Skopje, 5 August 2010 (MIA) - Macedonian Government will not break off the negotiations with Greece on settling the name row, as suggested by the diaspora, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski told reporters on Thursday.

However, the Government has been very careful in the course of these negotiations, the Prime Minister said.

The Government, Gruevski said, has been drafting a new package of reforms for modernization of the public administration.  Candidates for public servants will be a subject of tests that evaluate their capacity, skills, integrity and all other performances, necessary for such employees.

The Government has been also working on and making efforts to wrap up as much as possible of the tasks it is to face after opening of Macedonia's EU accession talks, the Prime Minister said.

- We are working on selecting solid individuals for members and chief of the country's team for the accession negotiations, Gruevski said.

Referring to harmonizing the national with the EU legislation, the Prime Minister said that this year the Government had drafted about 60 of the planned 100 laws. The Parliament already endorsed 50 of them, while the reminder would get the green light by the end of this month.