Report on Macedonia adopted by EP Thursday is small diplomatic victory: Ivica Bocevski
Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs Ivica Bocevski has said the report on Macedonia adopted by the European Parliament on Thursday in Strasbourg is a diplomatic victory for the country, Focus News Agency’s correspondent in Skopje reported.
The report calls on the European Commission to set a starting date for EU talks by the end of this year and lift the visas for Macedonian citizens.
Bocevski says with today’s discussion Macedonia has marked a small diplomatic victory because the final text of the resolution reads that the bilateral relations in the Balkans should not hamper the countries’ integration into the Euro-Atlantic organizations. In this way the proposal for a change in the text, which was a point of intersection in the EP, was adopted in its full text, Ivica Bocevski said at a press conference.
The deputy prime minister says the report calls on Macedonia’s neighboring EU member states not to block Macedonia’s European integration.
Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs Ivica Bocevski has said the report on Macedonia adopted by the European Parliament on Thursday in Strasbourg is a diplomatic victory for the country, Focus News Agency’s correspondent in Skopje reported.
The report calls on the European Commission to set a starting date for EU talks by the end of this year and lift the visas for Macedonian citizens.
Bocevski says with today’s discussion Macedonia has marked a small diplomatic victory because the final text of the resolution reads that the bilateral relations in the Balkans should not hamper the countries’ integration into the Euro-Atlantic organizations. In this way the proposal for a change in the text, which was a point of intersection in the EP, was adopted in its full text, Ivica Bocevski said at a press conference.
The deputy prime minister says the report calls on Macedonia’s neighboring EU member states not to block Macedonia’s European integration.