North Macedonia

WASHINGTON - US State Department Counsellor Derek Chollet has thanked Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for his constructive engagement in a March 18 round of high-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) defined as unprincipled and tendentious the decision of the authorities in North Macedonia to erase from the central register the Bulgarian association "Ivan Mihailov" Cultural Center in Bitola.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday the impression in Brussels was that Serbia had been the more constructive partner in the most recent round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

OHRID - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on Saturday evening some kind of agreement had been made in a new round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that he was pleased with that, and noted that he had not signed anything and that "this was no D-Day."

The meeting, which convened the High Representative of the EU Josep Borrell and attended by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui and Prime Minister of Provisional Institutions in Pristina, Albin Kurti, will take place with the support of the EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajk.

European Union officials Friday said North Macedonia has made progress in a bid to join the bloc but urged political leaders to adopt a promised constitutional amendment needed to further the process.

In Skopje, after a meeting with Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski, he thanked North Macedonia for its support in the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina and expressed the hope that "the beautiful landscape of Ohrid will create the beautiful atmosphere needed to reach an agreement".

"North Macedonia has undertaken the commitment to amend its Constitution to include citizens living within the country's borders who are part of other nationalities such as Bulgarians."

BRUSSELS - Saturday's high-level meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, to be held in Ohrid, North Macedonia, will begin at 10 am, the EU press service has announced.

In a statement, it said the meeting would be convened by EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell.

Unknown persons broke into the Cultural and Information Center of Bulgaria in the center of Skopje on Wednesday night.