2019 will be a year when there will be no border between Kosovo and Albania, Albanian PM Edi Rama said in his New Year’s address. Also, he announced free movement between Macedonia and Albania in the near future. “I believe that the border between Albania and Kosovo will in the spring be according to the Schengen Agreement criterion. In the ...

Any suggestion that the US wants to run some court resolution is false, the country’s Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily says, among other things, in the letter sent to Criminal Court President Ivan Dzolev on 18 December. In it, the Ambassador urges judges not to point to the Embassy as responsible for decisions they make when it comes to detention ...

In his congratulatory message to Greeks in the diaspora on the occasion of the New Year’s and Christmas holidays, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos reiterated his stand on the relations with the northern neighbour. As he pointed out, in the period leading up to the defining of the name deal and, certainly, before its ratification, Greece isn’t ready to accept interpretations ...

A high delegation from Turkey paid a visit to Macedonia on Friday, on the occasion of Turkish Language Education Day. The delegation, consisting of Ibrahim Kalin, Presidential Spokesperson, Sabri Demiri, Western Balkans Adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Tulin Erkan Kara, Ambassador to Macedonia, and Serdar Cam, TIKA President, met Stevo Pendarovski, National Coordinator for NATO Integration, Petar Atanasov, Deputy ...

The High Representative of EU for Security and Foreign Policy Federica Mogherini invited PM Zoran Zaev as well as other heads of states from West Balkans to an informal meeting in Brussels, Deutsche Welle in Macedonian reports. Mogherini has officially invited all PMs of the countries of the West Balkans, except in the case of Kosovo and Serbia, where instead ...

At Friday’s event organised by SYRIZA in Thessaloniki, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said the left wasn’t selling Macedonia. As he added, it is saving Greek Macedonia’s cultural and historical heritage. According to the Greek PM, for 25 years, nationalisms in both countries prevented every attempt to solve the name dispute, while the deal signed in June benefits Greece, Greek Macedonia, ...

The UN Mediator for the name issue between Macedonia and Greece Matthew Nimetz met in New York the Greek Alternative Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Katrougalos, with whom he discussed the implementation of the Prespa Agreement in both Macedonia and Greece. After the meeting, Nimetz said in a press conference that the Prespa Agreement is very important for the stability ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov and the Minister of Defence Radmila Sekerinska met Wednesday in Brussels the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. At the meeting, Sekerinska and Dimitrov informed Mogherini and Hahn for the successful development of all processes related to the implementation of the Prespa Agreement so far. ...

The PM of Macedonia Zoran Zaev met on Wednesday in Skopje the MEPs Knut Fleckenstein and David McAllister. As reported by the governmental press service, the MEPs voiced strong support for the implementation of the Prespa Agreement and welcomed PM Zaev’s courage to fully implement the entire process. Zaev voiced his expectation related to voting in Parliament on constitutional amendments ...

The Japanese diplomat who served as UN Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for the war in the former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi expressed support for the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and Greece. “This is a very good agreement for the people in both countries. The countries in the Balkan region should finally reach the pint of reconciliation, and the fastest way to do ...