Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Wednesday with European Parliament’s Rapporteur for North Macedonia, Bulgarian MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, focusing on the country’s European perspectives and agreeing that bilateral relations should be resolved between countries and not be part of the European negotiating framework.
PM Zaev and MEP Kyuchyuk agreed that North Macedonia should continue on its reform path, the Government said in a press release.
“We are fully focused on reforms, primarily on the judiciary and practical implementation of the laws that have been adopted. We have no alternative to European Union membership. We will continue to employ policies of understanding and dialogue, with the aim of contributing to goodneighborly relations, because this is not only important for the European way of conducting ourselves, but also due to the need of having friendly relations with neighbors,” said Zaev.
Interlocutors assessed that the European narrative, in the spirit of friendship, stimulates constructiveness and leads to good relations between states and nations, reads the press release.
