Macedonia and the Benelux states signed a Readmission Agreement in The Hague today. Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva signed this agreement on behalf of Macedonia, while Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot and the Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors in The Hague signed the agreement in the name of Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg).

I do not believe that the 2 million citizens of Macedonia represent an emigration danger to the EU, seeing as they want to live like Europeans in their own country, not like emigrants in the EU, Macedonian Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva said in The Hague.