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Kotzias to Dimitrov: Greece will not allow entry into NATO under the provisional name

Greece supports the territorial integrity of its northern neighbour, said Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias at a joint press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov. He ruled out the possibility that Greece will allow Macedonia to join the EU and NATO under its provisional reference. “Now, Macedonia wants to be a member of several international organizations. We...

Zaev on his first official visit to Brussels and will be meeting Tusk, Mogherini, Hahn, and Stoltenberg

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will meet with EU and NATO high representative's, reports the government. This represents his first official visit after he took duty as President of the Government. The goal of the government is to confirm its complete dedication toward integration to the EU and NATO, as a strategic goal of the country and to present the reformatory...

Zaev to Thimonier : We are ready for the fast and effective implementation of reforms

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev had talks today with the French Ambassador Christian Thimonier about the priorities of the new government, as well as the opening of Macedonia's perspectives towards the European Union and NATO. "We are ready for the fast, high-quality and effective implementation of key reforms that will ensure quality of life for all citizens and will ensure and Euro-Atlantic...

“The Guardian”: Russia has been working for a decade to distance Macedonia from NATO

Russian spies and diplomats have been involved in a nearly decade-long effect to spread propaganda and provoke discord in Macedonia as part of broader efforts by the Kremlin to increase its influence all across the countries in the former Yugoslavia and to stop them from joining NATO and to pry them away from western influence, writes British newspaper "the...

Now is the right time to implement the urgent reforms and to strengthen the rule of law, said Stoltenberg

NATO's General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg has announced that he has congratulated the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on the formation of the new government. I spoke with Prime Minister Zaev today and congratulated him on his new responsibilities. We agreed on the importance of addressing urgently needed reforms, including on good governance and the rule of law. These reforms will...

Ahmeti spoke to Schweitzer-Bluhm and Žbogar about the forming of the new government

Today the leader of DUI, Ali Ahmeti went to the US Embassy where he had a working meeting with deputy ambassador Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm and with the Ambassador to the European Union, Samuel Žbogar. The party announced that at the meeting they discussed future activities over forming the new government. Ahmeti repeated the party’s stance to Schweitzer-Bluhm and Žbogar, that DUI...

Baily: Ivanov and Parliament to move forward the process of forming a government

“We urge the President to move forward with the process. It is also important that Parliament moves forward, and that begins with a new Speaker of Parliament being voted in by the new members of Parliament.” This was said today by the US Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily, when he replied to a question by a journalist regarding the celebration...

Moscow: EU and NATO want to impose the Platform in order to destroy Macedonia

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today expressed its concern regarding the situation in Macedonia and noted that the political crisis in Macedonia has further deepened, due to outside interference into the country’s internal affairs. In a statement via "Twitter" by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Skopje, it stated that with active assistance the EU and NATO are...

Baily: I’m worried Macedonia is distancing itself from the principles of democracy

US Ambassador. Jess Baily, expressed his concern after President Gjorge Ivanov decided not to give the mandate to the leader of SDSM party, Zoran Zaev to form a new government. “I agree with EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn. I’m worried that Macedonia is distancing itself from the principles of democracy and the rule of law which are NATO’s key values” wrote...

Stolenberg: Signatures have been collected, I expect the authorities to fulfil the next step

Following one attempt to form a government, in line with the requirements specified by the President, enough MPs’ signatures have now been collected . I look to the authorities in Skopje to fulfil the next step in the democratic process, said a written statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, referring to political developments in the country. He calls on all...

Ivanov complained to Duncan about interference from neighbours and the status quo situation with EU and NATO membership

The country’s President, Gjorge Ivanov, at today’s meeting with the British State Minister for Europe and the Americas, Sir Alan Duncan, expressed his dissatisfaction of the lack of public condemnation for interferences in Macedonia’s internal affairs by some of Macedonia’s neighbouring countries. At the meeting, Ivanov’s cabinet says, the Macedonian President and the British diplomat exchanged their views on the...

The West is forcing Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to join NATO, says Nikolai Patrushev

The Security Secretary of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev last night said that a stable course for a further expansion of NATO has been set and which strives to drag Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina by force to join the Alliance. In an interview for “Rossiyskaya Gazeta,” he said that there are ongoing efforts to move elements of the American global...

NATO: Political crisis is pushing Macedonia away from Membership with the Alliance

The political crisis in Macedonia is pushing the country away from its NATO membership. This was one of the conclusions in the final report from the NATO Summit which took place in Warsaw. "Given concerns over political developments in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which have taken the country further away from NATO values, we urge all political leaders in...

Hammond: Macedonia may lose the benefits of its association with the EU and NATO

British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs said today in Brussels that are broad concerns regarding the situation in Macedonia. “I think the broader concern that in a country like Macedonia which is on a trajectory towards Europe, towards NATO, there are very clear standards that we expect to be observed, and we expect in all of these...

Stoltenberg: Ivanov has to revoke pardons and not ruin Macedonia’s NATO chances

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, today warned that Macedonia should not let its political crisis wreck its hopes of joining the Northern Atlantic Alliance, according to "Reuters" In his first public remarks on the crisis, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged President Gjorge Ivanov to revoke the pardons he granted politicians and their associates. "The door of NATO is still open, but...

Steinmeier: The growing instability in Macedonia is taking it far off its path to the EU and NATO

I hope that the political parties in Macedonia understand that the growing instability will make the country’s path towards the European Union and NATO very difficult, said from the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. That was Steinmeier’s message to the political parties in the country, to those who are signatories of the Przhino Agreement - a way out of the...

SDSM: While Montenegro moves forward, Macedonia with Gruevski remains in the same place

The debacle of Nikola Gruevski economic policies was preceded by another defeat, this time on an international level, was SDSM's reaction after Montenegro were invited to be considered as a NATO member. “The Ministerial Council of NATO decided that Montenegro is to be invited to be considered as a new member of the Northern Alliance. SDSM congratulated the citizens of Montenegro...

Tusk: We all should remain calm, with cool heads

President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, called for calm after Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, took down a Russian war jet on the Syrian border.   "In this dangerous moment, after the crash of the Russian plane, we all need to have cool heads and calm remain calm," wrote        former Prime Minister of Poland on...

Orban: With Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership, it will fill the hole in the Balkans

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said today in Budapest that Hungary will support Macedonia's membership in the EU and NATO, which, he said, will fill the gap in the Balkans. Orban said after meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, that wasn't announced in Macedonia, said that it in the interest of Hungary, any country in the Balkans had interest,...