Belgrade changes policy over Macedonia

The newly elected authorities in Yugoslavia and the government of Macedonia have said they want to settle their eight-year-old border dispute.

On a visit to Belgrade, the Macedonian foreign minister, Aleksander Dimitrov, praised the democratic changes in Yugoslavia, and said there were only a few border issues to settle.

His Yugoslav counterpart, Goran Svilanovic, said Belgrade also wanted to resolve the border issue, to concentrate on economic issues.

There's been a series of reported incursions over the unmarked border.

Mr Dimitrov is the first Macedonian minister to visit Belgrade for five years. The two ministers also had preparatory talks on how to divide property belonging to former communist Yugoslavia.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service