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Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov held Monday a farewell meeting with the Russian Ambassador to Macedonia, Oleg Shcherbak, as he is concluding his diplomatic mission to Skopje. Minister Dimitrov expressed hope that relations between the two countries in the future would be developed in the spirit of traditional friendship and mutual respect, the MoFA said. While being committed to ...

OSCE/ODIHR mission for observing the 30 September referendum in Macedonia will consist of a core team of 13 experts, 20 long-term and 250 short-term observers, Head of the mission Jan Petersen said Monday at a meeting with Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi. The OSCE/ODIHR referendum observation mission (ROM) will assess the referendum for its compliance with OSCE commitments and other international ...

The next year will be intense one for preparations towards the opening of accession negotiations both with Macedonia and Albania, EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday in her speech at the annual EU Ambassadors Conference 2018. “Let me say very clearly: these opportunities have to be taken now – this year is the year. It is not a ...

The Skopje-Athens (name) deal is a historic solution and now is the time for the citizens of Macedonia to make the right decision, Christian Hellbach, Special Envoy of the German Foreign Office for South-Eastern Europe, said Monday in Skopje at a roundtable on Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic future. “Your country has Euro-Atlantic perspective. Unfortunately your European integration was stalled for much too ...

Serbia does not interfere in the name referendum and Macedonia supports positive solution to the dispute with Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev said at the Tabanovce-Presevo border crossing where they promoted the concept of integrated border management. At the area between the crossings between Macedonia and Serbia, Tabanovce and Presevo, the two officials promoted the ...

Opposition VMRO-DPMNE held a protest march in Kicevo against the government. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said the name agreement was undermining the Macedonian national identity. Moreover, he noted it was not up to him to tell the people how to vote. He criticized the incumbents of working for their own interests instead of the national ones. However, there is still ...

I trust the wisdom of the Macedonian citizens and I am confident that they will know to make the right decision in the upcoming referendum, Matthew Palmer, US Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, said at a meeting Saturday in Dubrovnik with Macedonia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrej Zernovski. Palmer and Zernovski met on the sidelines ...

The only sustainable vision of a stable Balkans is the European one. We all work on democratic and rule of law reforms in order to share a borderless European future. Time for us in the region and the member states to step it up, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov tweeted after the informal meeting of foreign ministers of EU members and ...

The coalition ‘United for European Macedonia’ launched Friday the pre-referendum campaign in the town of Kocani. At a public gathering, dubbed ‘Come out FOR European Macedonia’, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev referred to the overall benefits of the country’s accession to the European Union and NATO. Voting ‘in favour at the referendum will mean access for the country to the European ...

Macedonia has made great strides in the past year. Progressive forces solved difficult issues, including the name dispute, in order the country to prosper. Benefits from being a member of the EU and NATO are huge both for the state and the citizens and thus, the moment must be seized. These are some of the conclusions of participants in Friday’s ...