Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) President Branko Crvenkovski, addressing Parliament on Monday during an off-the-agenda discussion on the issue of the country's name, announced that he has decided to end the tenure of ambassador Nikola Dimitrov as the country's representative in the UN sponsored negotiations with Greece on FYROM's "name issue".

President Crevenkovski added that in Dimitrov's place he was placing Martin Protoger, director of FYROM Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's office.

He explained that he was doing this with the purpose of overcoming "the absurd situation" in which his country had found itself in the negotiations on the pending name issue, "where the country had two representatives and the impression was being created that the country lacked a unified position on the name issue."

Source: ANA-MPE

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