Risch: Macedonian NATO accession Vote possible by June

U.S. lawmakers may vote to approve Macedonia as the 30^th member of NATO as early as next month, according to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator James Risch. “The process is that we need to have a hearing on it in the Foreign Relations Committee, and I have tentatively scheduled that for approximately two weeks from now,” the junior Idaho Republican senator told Voice of America’s Macedonian Service. “Then, as far as when it will be finalized, it goes to the Senate floor, and we would very much like to have that done in June, and we are cautiously optimistic that we can get that done in June.”