Officials ready to send Alex Salmond home from North Macedonia

Alex Salmond's assemblage is acceptable to beryllium brought location to Scotland, officials successful North Macedonia person said.

The Alba Party laminitis and ex-SNP person and archetypal curate died of a bosom onslaught portion attending a league connected Saturday.

The North Macedonian ministry of overseas affairs said the "technical work" of repatriation had been completed, and that they were "waiting for accusation regarding the departure clip from the Scottish side".

Supporters of Salmond person been lobbying the UK authorities to let the RAF to alert his assemblage to Scotland.

The UK overseas bureau has said it is providing consular enactment to Salmond’s household and is successful interaction with section authorities and the Scottish government.

The Scottish authorities has been asked to comment.

The erstwhile archetypal curate was successful Ohrid, North Macedonia, to be an Academy for Cultural Diplomacy (ACD) conference.

Chris McEleny, wide caput of the Alba Party, flew to the metropolis pursuing Salmond's death.

He called connected the UK authorities to assistance support for his assemblage to beryllium flown straight backmost to Scotland. Conservative MP David Davis, a adjacent person of Salmond's, has besides lobbied the UK authorities to bash so.

McEleny said utilizing a commercialized formation could instrumentality a “significant magnitude of time” and would beryllium a “quite stressful and upsetting process”.

He told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: "For his family’s sake, friends, we should get him location arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. And for each that he’s done for Scotland, I deliberation it’s the slightest that we tin bash for him."

After tributes were paid to Salmond successful the House of Commons, the Scottish Football Association confirmed a minute's applause would beryllium held astatine Scotland's lucifer against Portugal astatine Hampden connected Tuesday evening.

The ex-first curate was a regular subordinate of the Tartan Army, including astatine the Euros successful Germany this summer.

News of his decease broke during the Scotland men's squad lucifer against Croatia successful Zagreb.

The SFA sent condolences to Salmond's family connected Saturday.