According to First Deputy PM Artan Grubi, the construction of the Corridors was obstructed by Russia.
“We lost a year precisely due to a Russia-based company that entered the procedure and disrupted the whole process. Is there Russian influence in our religious communities? Find the answer yourselves. Is there Russian influence in media, you know that answer too. Is there Russian influence in NGOs? There are Russian elements who do everything possible to disrupt a progressive parliamentary majority and coalition,” he said, adding that North Macedonia had had a centuries-old friendship with the US.
Regarding all comments by Grubi on Russia at the conference, PM Dimitar Kovacevski said that through the First Deputy PM hadn’t said that Russia was to blame for everything in the country, the things he had called Russia out for were a fact.