Tag: Nikola Poposki

Macedonia will fulfil its obligations in accordance with international law and will provide accommodation for all asylum seekers based in the country, but we will not allow ourselves to be turned into a refugee camp, said Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki after the meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic,Lubomír Zaorálek . “Migrants don't come to Macedonia...

Setting up an additional wired fence at quota 59 at the Macedonian-Greek border, for protection against migrants illegally crossing, apparently is the first phase of the implementation of the agreement between Macedonia and the European countries to help control the refugee crisis in the wake of the influx of people expected to arrive in the Spring. The second phase, as announced,...

Today in Pristina an agreement was signed by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs from Macedonia and Kosovo, Nikola Poposki and Hashim Thaci. It will allow citizens to move across the border with bio-metric ID cards as well as opening the border crossing Belanovce – Stanic. Both ministers decided that these agreements will benefit the citizens and businesses of both countries, and...

The Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Michael Roth, today met with Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, President of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, and the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev. Minister Poposki at the meetings said that internal political challenges are being overcome through an inclusive process that should be completed as soon as possible and without delaying the...

Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, in an interview with the "Wall Street Journal" says sealing the border with Greece would be the second worst scenario for dealing with the migrant crisis. Popovski said the best solution, would be to reduce the flow of migrants through Turkey along with Greece installing a more effective system for registration, and sending back...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted after DUI's statement, and said that they had not given their support to officials of DUI for their visit to Athens. Their visit to Athens was of their own initiative, as well as a party visit and not in the capacity as Government Officials and was "just like the party visit by Foreign Minister...

The name dispute and the refugee crisis will be the top of the agenda at today's meeting between Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki and his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias in Athens. In Athens a suppressed optimism is the current atmosphere regarding the outcome of the visit, saying that things are flowing, the ice is slowly melting and the conditions for...

The Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, tomorrow arrives in Athens for an official meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias. This is Poposki's second visit to Athens, following his participation in the informal meeting of Ministers of the EU and candidate countries during the Greek Presidency in 2014, but this is the first official visit as Minister of Foreign...

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, sent a strong message to Macedonia that they must abide to European principles and laws if it wants to join the European family. In Sofia after meeting his Bulgarian counterpart Rosen Plevneliev, just days before the arrival of the Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Popovski in Athens, Pavlopoulos indirectly criticized the behaviour of the Macedonian government, commenting...

Head of the Macedonian diplomatic delegation, Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski, yesterday in Brussels met with EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, with whom he discussed the implementation of the Przhino Agreement, priority reforms in Macedonia, as well as the migrant crisis. Minister Popovski and Commissioner Hahn, regarding the implementation of the Przhino Agreement, concluded that it...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Popovski, today after a meeting with Ambassadors of the EU member states said that migrants who wait several days for entering the country will not be missed out and that Greek police are expected to clear up the situation on the border, to enable the flow of those fleeing warring hot spots. Minister...

Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski urged coordination between Macedonia and Greece on the question of refugees to rise to a higher level, a higher government level. “We need coordination with Greece. Currently, there is cooperation between law enforcement officials in terms of exchanging information how many people come from the Greek port of Piraeus, the information needed to prepare for their...

A Macedonian delegation, led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense, Nikola Poposki and Zoran Jolevski  attended an annual meeting in Brussels with the North Atlantic Council at the level of ambassadors of NATO member countries, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The minsters spoke of results the country had achieved results in  political, economic and...

The European Commission believes that building fences is not the solution to the problem of illegal border crossing. "We have repeatedly explained how the EU helps the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. We have the data. It is not that we don't give aid. We know that it is a difficult situation, but, as we said, we think the fences...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs translated the statement Minister Nikola Poposki gave in an interview to the Hungarian weekly, "Figel". According to the MFA, Mr Poposki had said: "Obviously, we also need some kind of physical protection to reduce illegal border activity. It is difficult to achieve in such a short time, and is not a long term solution. If we...

The fundamental question today is how Macedonia can help and assist with European efforts and measures to assist with the refugee crisis, and not to set up a barbed wire fence on the Macedonian-Greek border, says the President of the Liberal Party, Ivon Velickovski after yesterday's statement by the Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski. "While families and refugees were being re-united...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs still has no information whether Minister Nikola Popovski in an interview with the Hungarian weekly, "Figel 'really said that Macedonia is considering to raise a fence, similar to the Hungarian border in order to protect its borders from the recent wave of refugees. "We are still waiting for verification of the statement",  we were told...

Macedonia is considering building a fence on its border, much like Hungary did to stop the large influx of migrants, said Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski, in an interview with Hungarian weekly "Figel." According to Popovski, Macedonia, probably "needs some kind of physical defence, although it should be a long term solution." "If you seriously consider what Europe is asking us...

Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki attended a working breakfast in Luxemburg with diplomats from established EU nations, as well as nations with candidate status, to discuss the current refugee crisis engulfing Europe. Poposki said, " Europe has to come together to resolve this issue, because a country, acting on its own, simply does not have the required...

Macedonia is facing a unique problem – inflow of migrants “from EU countries”, said the first Macedonian diplomat, Nikola Poposki at the press conference in Vienna that is part of the summit dedicated to the West Balkans. Poposki announced that until recently, around 4000 migrants had been entering each day. According to latest estimates, this period the number will be...