Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki on Tuesday in Brussels realized meetings with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule and the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius.  In a statement for news agency MIA, Minister Poposki said that the talks with the EU high representatives were focused on the prospects and future dynamic of the EU enlargement process.  

According to Macedonian Foreign Minister Poposki, his interlocutors mentioned that their goal is to reach a consensus in the EU Stabilization and Association Council for start of Macedonia’s membership negotiations. For this reason, according to Poposki, additional efforts will be made for intensifying the dialogue between Macedonia and our southern neighbor towards eliminating the one and only existing problem in the bilateral relations.

“High Representative Ashton and Commissioner Fule are on the same wavelength. The talks with Ashton addressed our initiatives related to this matter and the one presented in the letter of PM Nikola Gruevski. We hope for some progress to be made in intesyfying this dialogue, as the simple delaying of the decision on opening the negotiations and the lack of commitment to settling the bilateral dispute are not in favor of the Euro-Atlantic agenda in the Balkans,” Poposki stressed.