In regard to Tuesday's incident in Florina (Greece), namely a detention of two Macedonian journalists, Greece's Liaison Office in Skopje issued a press release, saying that they were urged to refrain from recording inside public institutions and released.

The above mentioned journalists visited this morning the premises of a Greek Public Civil Service office in Florina and one of them, in violation of Greek laws, started to record on video the activity inside this public administration office. The civil servant in charge, asked the journalist to stop, and informed the Greek police authorities. The latter, after investigating the incident in accordance with the relevant legal provisions, urged them to refrain from this kind of illegal activity (video-recording within the premises of public institutions without proper license) and allowed them to leave, the press release reads.

"My colleague (Goran) Momirovski and I were accompanying a group of about 15 Aegean Macedonians from Skopje, who after long-lasting futile attempts, wished to acquire birth certificate in Florina...The civil servant told them they could not do it here but at the Greek Consulate in Skopje. The public servant saw that we have a camera, considering for a moment that we were recording her, and called the police. Policemen came, brought us to a police station, took our passports and after finding out that we had no records, let us free," one of the involved journalists, Milena Gjorgievska, says in a statement, published on the newspaper VEST website.

Macedonian Consul in Thessaloniki and South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) have been notified about today's incident in Florina.

The two journalists were in Florina to cover how ethnic Macedonians, living in the village of Nered - Florina region, celebrate the Holy Mother of God holiday.