(SKOPJE) - An ethnic Albanian party has decided return to Macedonia's government 10 days after pulling out in protest against Skopje's failure to recognise Kosovo's independence, reports said Monday.

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and the president of the Democratic Party of Albanians, Menduh Thaci, had agreed to deal with the DPA's demands, local media cited DPA spokesman Veton Ibrahimi as saying.

Among these were more rights for Macedonia's 25-percent ethnic Albanian population, including wider use of their language, the Albanian flag and the more work places for the minority in public enterprises.

The DPA's decision to leave Gruevski's ruling coalition on March 14 led to the formation of a minority government.

Its return to the government comes ahead a NATO summit next week in Bucharest, at which Macedonia is expected to be invited to join the military alliance.

But Greece is threatening to veto Macedonia's admission to NATO as it lays claim to the Balkan country's name for a province of its own.

Macedonia was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 under the provisional name of "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM.

Representatives from Skopje and Athens are scheduled to meet in New York on Tuesday for new talks on the name issue.

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