29 May 2018
President Gjorge Ivanov has not received any information about the agreed framework for overcoming the name dispute, and yesterday called on Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Macedonia announced. “The Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Macedonia has not been provided information on the agreed framework […]
28 May 2018
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, this morning, after breakfast with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, issued a statement supporting the process of finding a solution to the name dispute. “We are all very encouraged by the progress made between Skopje and Athens for the name, we will […]
18 May 2018
VMRO-DPMNE has no information regarding the process that is being conducted by the Government and it would be frivolous to present it now, said the director of the VMRO-DPMNE Center for Communications, Ivo Kotevski, in a statement for Portalb. Yesterday evening and today, many media groups, citing diplomatic sources, wrote that the solution discussed by […]
18 May 2018
Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskovski will not be extradited to Macedonia to be tried for decades of illegal wiretapping. The Supreme Court in Athens ruled that the two should not be handed over to the country because there are no conditions for a fair trial. Earlier, the Thessaloniki court came to a different decision than […]
15 May 2018
Today, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE called again on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to make a statement to the public concerning the name talks and again asked for a leadership meeting. “This is the third day of silence from the government and Prime Minister Zaev on the call for an immediate leadership meeting to discuss the details […]
4 May 2018
We share the same fate with the EU, but we are still not at the table, said Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov at the third quadrilateral ministerial meeting between Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Bulgaria, which takes place today in Thessaloniki, reports MIA. Dimitrov thanked Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov […]
3 May 2018
No change in the name is the attitude of almost half of the citizens or 47.1 percent, according to the latest poll by the MCIC and the Institute for Democracy, published by Telma. Only 14.4 percent of citizens would accept a “double formula”, nearly as much as 14.1 would accept a name for overall use […]
3 May 2018
With these pro-democracy, pro-Western and pro-European manners that we are dealing with on both sides of the talks, we believe that we will be able to find the solution that will benefit the two sides to the very end. I believe that Macedonia together with Greece can reach a solution before the Council of Ministers […]
2 May 2018
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and his Greek counterpart, Nikos Kotzias, will meet tomorrow in Thessaloniki, where both will participate in a quadrilateral forum, which will be also attended by their counterparts from Bulgaria and Albania. After the last meeting between Dimitrov and Kotzias in Vienna, mediator Matthew Nimitz, said the two sides remain committed to […]
26 April 2018
It is very important that we are not deprived of our identity at home, not to be disenfranchised, said Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in an interview with Bulgarian TV BTV, while commenting on talks on the name dispute with Greece. During which, the question of which name is most acceptable did not receive a […]
26 April 2018
The foreign ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, discussed a solution to the name dispute in Vienna for four hours yesterday and concluded the meeting with a working dinner. After the meeting, the foreign ministers of both countries did not give any statements to the media. Negotiator Matthew Nimetz, special envoy of the […]
20 April 2018
We are focused on finding a solution to the name dispute by the end of June, in order to turn things around, so in July, Macedonia can receive an invitation to join NATO, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Radmila Šekerinska at a meeting with journalists ahead of her official visit to the […]
20 April 2018
Government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski confirmed that a new meeting between the foreign ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias will take place at the end of the month, but that the exact date has not yet been confrmed. “There will be a new meeting by the end of the month, and the […]
20 April 2018
UN Mediator Matthew Nimetz and the foreign ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, are set to hold a new meeting in Vienna next week on the 25 of April, reported Greek media, according to MIA. At this meeting, according to the Greek media, efforts will be made to overcome the differences […]
18 April 2018
At the next NATO summit in July, Macedonia will not become a member because the time period is too short, said Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in an interview with the Greek radio “247”. According to Kotzias, the agreement has to be ratified in various ways, and it is already April. “They want to call […]
12 April 2018
For the first time we have discussed a time frame and the steps that should follow if a solution is reached, i.e. how it would look like and be implemented. This was a frank conversation, with great understanding of the needs of each other. The main challenge is how to compile the most serious concerns […]
11 April 2018
Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, after meeting with his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dačić in Belgrade, said that the name dispute between Greece and Macedonia had taken a step forward, and that the key to resolving the problem was “realism, pragmatism and understanding that compromises need to be made”, reported the Serbian media. “We need to […]
11 April 2018
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will arrive in Ohrid this afternoon, and he will have a working dinner with the Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov. The official meeting of the two foreign ministers is scheduled for tomorrow. The Foreign Ministry states that the Minister Kotzias’s visit is within the fringes of the continuous dialogue between […]
30 March 2018
Statements we have received from Russia lately have not been positive, but they are of no surprise, especially after Russia shared their views last year concerning our strategic goals, said deputy prime minister and defense minister, Radmila Šekerinska after visiting the Military Medical Centre in Skopje. “We want to have good relations with Russia while […]
30 March 2018
“I hope we make some positive steps today,” the Greek foreign minister told journalists, just before today’s meeting with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and UN mediator Matthew Nimetz in Vienna, reported Athen News Agency (ANA-MPA). According to photographs released by the Macedonian foreign ministry’s official Twitter page, the meeting was held in the offices of […]
