Tuesday's meeting of the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and New Democracy, Nikola Gruevski, Branko Crvenkovski, Ali Ahmeti and Imer Selmani respectively, with President Gjorge Ivanov came to an end after less than an hour without an agreement on open issues, related to snap parliamentary elections.

Gruevski said opposition SDSM leader Crvenkovski came to the meeting with an intention for neither an agreement to be reached nor elections to be held. However VMRO-DMNE will continue to work towards the set goal, i.e. call for early parliamentary elections.

"They came and said that they did not intend to give up on their demands despite the fact that we accepted additional requests to those 40, approved earlier. We have conditionally accepted additional requests we qualified earlier as not good only for SDSM to return to the Parliament and for elections to be organized," Gruevski said.

However, today they came to the meeting with an obvious intention for neither an agreement nor nor elections to be held, he said.

"We have done our best and our conscience is clear, as we have invested as much as possible, accepted even irrational, illogical demands. At the end they made us to even consider, accept illegal demands, such as interfering with the judicial affairs. We cannot go beyond this limit, no matter whether SDSM is going to participate in the elections," Gruevski said.

Asked if the poll is going to be a legitimate without the opposition, Gruevski said the elections were an open arena for each political party, individual to ask for the citizens' trust.

"Citizens are the ones that give the credibility to those that ask for it. We shall run for the elections and ask for their trust," Gruevski said, adding that the election day would be announced pretty soon.

Crvenkovski on his part said Gruevski came to the meeting with intention for the gathering to fail. The VMRO-DPMNE leader wishes for elections without the participation of opposition parties, Crvenkovski said. SDSM, he said, will keep boycotting the Parliament and intends to do the same with the (early) elections if its demands are not met.

"We stay ready for future talks if the ruling party initiate them. We hold to our stand -- boycott of the Parliament and elections if our demands remain unfulfilled, namely for the elections to be fair and democratic," Crvenkovski said.

DUI leader Ahmeti said the ruling coalition did its best for the opposition to take part in the forthcoming processes.

"We have tried and done everything for the opposition to become part of resolving the problems ahead of us. Unfortunately, we have not come to that point because the opposition demands are illogical to an unacceptable extent," Ahmeti said.

He once again called on all opposition parties to change their mind and resume their participation in the process, but without setting conditions.

"I do not wish to undermine the role of the opposition parties, but have to say that Macedonia is not in a political crisis as all institutions are functioning in line with the Constitution and law. The opposition parties have been the ones that urged for snap elections and the ruling ones accepted their demand," Ahmeti said.

ND leader Selmani considers that the ruling parties came to today's meeting to stop the negotiations and undermine everything that had been agreed two days ago. Macedonia needs US, EU mediation, he said.

President Ivanov said today's meeting was his fourth attempt to contribute to normalizing the political dialogue between the ruling, opposition parties.

"I consider that this process should resume at the Parliament. Unfortunately it becomes clear that at the moment not all political leaders equally understand the state's interests and priorities. In spite of the efforts, some of the participants failed to go beyond the narrow-party agendas and daily-political projections. I am particularly disappointed that the key obstacle for reaching an agreement is (the opposition) demand, which is under the judicial authority," Ivanov said.

Ivanov said that at the meeting he called on all parties to make compromise for the benefit of Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic integration processes.

"It is obvious that some of the parties have no capacity to give up their practices in favor of the citizens," Ivanov said, pointing out that all of those developments are endangering the citizens' interest in fast economic, democratic development of Macedonia.

"Those who do this bear responsibility before their voters, the entire Macedonian public. A difference should be made between party's political battle and the future for all of us. In spite of everything I hope that all political parties will find a way to take part in the snap elections, which are really a way out of the present situation in Macedonia," Ivanov said.