Today, the German Foreign Office welcomed Parliament’s decision to ‘postpone once again’ the elections and calls for the implementation of credible reforms, and the urgent withdrawal of the pardons granted by President Gjorgi Ivanov to a large number of politicians last month.
The German Foreign Office made the following statement on Twitter:
We welcome the postponement of elections in FYR of #Macedonia: It gives the chance to return to the European path. pic.twitter.com/M6rXx4Wbh3
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) May 19, 2016
The statement also adds that Germany’s “special envoy, Ambassador Johannes Haindl is holding fresh rounds of talks from today with the parties in Skopje in order to support them on this path in close cooperation with the EU Commision and the USA”.
