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Macedonia: Parties in deal to end political deadlock
MACEDONIA’S main parties reached a deal yesterday on the Balkan state’s political crisis.
The accord, struck in EU-mediated talks, calls for early elections organised by a caretaker cabinet to be held on April 24 2016 and for Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to quit by the end of this year.
The breakthrough came the day after US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland intervened.
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