Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today had "a long and open" telephone conversation, it has been announced.

They considered "all the newly-created circumstances."

A joint statement said that the Serbian president and Macedonian prime minister reached agreement on five points, cited as follows:

Full statement is available on the link below:

Serbia's decision to withdraw its embassy staff from Macedonia is in fact "a message to Skopje."

The message is that Serbia "knows what they laid their heads together for, and what they agreed on," First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday.

"That's something not done among friends," Dacic said referring to Skopje's actions, and added that despite this, Serbia was seeking "good relations with all countries in the region, for the sake of peace and stability."

The statement of Prime Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Zoran Zaev that his country would opt to remain neutral regarding Kosovo’s bid to join UNESCO, has caused reaction among the Albanian community, reports Koha.