The Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski today received the Ambassador of the Netherlands in our country Jan Dirk Cop, who wished the Prime Minister and the new Government success in their upcoming term.

According to the government press service, Kovacevski stressed the intensive cooperation between Northern Macedonia and the Netherlands at the highest level in recent years, which strengthened the friendship between the two countries bilaterally, as well as in terms of supporting the European integration process. of our country.

The mutual partnership, it was emphasized at the meeting, is being achieved at an extremely satisfactory level by both parties by constantly fulfilling the Declaration of Partnership and Cooperation that the two countries signed in 2017.

Ambassador Kopp showed special interest in the meeting of Prime Minister Kovacevski with his counterpart Kiril Petkov from Bulgaria and expressed hope that the renewed communication between the two governments will encourage the expected progress in the process of Northern Macedonia's EU membership by holding the first Intergovernmental session to open the chapters. .

Prime Minister Kovacevski stressed that as a country that has a strict approach to the objective evaluation of the accession criteria, the support of the Netherlands is a confirmation that with the commitment to the European reform agenda, Northern Macedonia is fully prepared to open negotiations.