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Macedonia's Zaev set to warm up ties with Kosovo
First-ever Skopje PM visit to its neighbor
12 December, 14:55
(ANSA) - TRIESTE - Macedonia's prime minister Zoran Zaev had
Tuesday the first-ever visit to its neighbor.
He said Skopje would acquiesce to Kosovar demands for a new, international investigation into a 2015 attack by militants from Kosovo in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo. Eight police officers and 10 militants were killed in fighting and was the worst outbreak of violence in Macedonia since a nine-month insurgency by fighters from its Kosovar minority in 2001.
"Such an issue is in the interest of our cooperation and that should not remain an obstacle to our ties," Zaev said at a news conference with his host counterpart Ramush Haradinaj.
Macedonia has a large ethnic Albanian minority - which is the main single ethnic group in neighboring Kosovo and also Albania - that regularly plays an important part in creating governing coalitions. "We share the same aspirations for membership into the European Union and NATO because the future of the whole Western Balkans is in EU and NATO," said Zaev. (ANSA).
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He said Skopje would acquiesce to Kosovar demands for a new, international investigation into a 2015 attack by militants from Kosovo in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo. Eight police officers and 10 militants were killed in fighting and was the worst outbreak of violence in Macedonia since a nine-month insurgency by fighters from its Kosovar minority in 2001.
"Such an issue is in the interest of our cooperation and that should not remain an obstacle to our ties," Zaev said at a news conference with his host counterpart Ramush Haradinaj.
Macedonia has a large ethnic Albanian minority - which is the main single ethnic group in neighboring Kosovo and also Albania - that regularly plays an important part in creating governing coalitions. "We share the same aspirations for membership into the European Union and NATO because the future of the whole Western Balkans is in EU and NATO," said Zaev. (ANSA).
