Skopje – Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, forward of tomorrow’s go to to Brussels, identified that the agenda will embody the Development Plan, and if it involves the matter of the European integration course of, he’ll defend and defend Macedonian nationwide pursuits. The Authorities’s place on the constitutional amendments, as he mentioned, is evident, and so they need to know that if they begin on that path, they’ll full it in three, 4 or 5 years at most and turn into an EU member, as promised in 2018.
Mickoski mentioned that the Authorities has ready a unbelievable doc for the Development Plan, which was in a stalemate for a lot of months, and has been submitted to the European Fee each in Skopje and in Brussels. – Upon forming the Authorities, we submitted it to the workplace of the European Fee right here in Skopje, after which it arrived in Brussels. That’s the goal of my go to and a working lunch with the old-new President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen, mentioned Mickoski.
If it involves the matter of the European integration course of, as he mentioned, he’s the one who ought to defend and uphold Macedonian nationwide pursuits, as previously, after we have been in opposition, and now because the Authorities.
– Now now we have much more arguments. We need to current the arguments, we need to convey the frustration felt by Macedonian residents, as a result of it’s nice, enormous, I’d say, after greater than two and a half a long time since we began this path in the direction of the European Union and greater than a decade and a half since we formally obtained the primary constructive report from the European Fee to start out these negotiations. We’re not capable of begin not as a result of we don’t respect the Copenhagen standards, however as a result of there are artificially imposed obstacles, which no different nation, no different state has had, mentioned Mickoski.
In response to a journalist’s query about whether or not the concept of constitutional amendments with delayed impact is also a part of the talks in Brussels, Mickoski replied that he wouldn’t wish to remark, however that the Authorities’s positions on this subject are clear.
– The place of VMRO DPMNE, the place of the Authorities is evident. My place is evident. Sufficient defeats, sufficient insurance policies and diplomacy of bent backbone and shoe kissing. Now now we have a coverage and diplomacy, which relies on a two-way road. I need to discuss values, about respecting human rights and to know that if we begin, as promised in that 2018, that in three, 4, 5 years at most, we’ll full that path and turn into a member of the European Union, mentioned Mickoski, including that every part else are tales and traps to which neither the Authorities nor he as an individual intend to succumb to.
