Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said Belgrade "does not have a single open issue in bilateral relations with Skopje" and praised the government of Christian Mickoski for appointing a Serb as deputy prime minister, BGNES reported.
Vucevic was hosting Macedonian Interior Minister Panče Toskovski in Belgrade today.
The Serbian prime minister said that such meetings were of great importance for maintaining excellent relations between the two countries.
"Serbia is a country that does not have a single open issue with North Macedonia and in this context will be its supporter in every field, especially on the path of European integration," Vucevic said.
He hailed the role of Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Stoilkovic - a symbol of Russian-Serbian influence in the government of Christian Mickoski - and called his appointment "a significant step for Serbia in maintaining traditionally good relations".
For his part, Toskovski emphasized that "Serbia is a neighbour that is always there when we need it most, and this has been confirmed many times in the past, especially recently when a Serbian helicopter was sent to help fight fires. The cooperation between the two countries is at an excellent level and will continue to deepen in the future."
BGNES reminds that Ivan Stolkovic is chairman of the Democratic Party of Serbs in North Macedonia. The pro-Serbian and pro-Russian politician announced that he would leave North Macedonia if Bulgarians were included in the constitution. Stoilkovic called the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, when Bosnian Serbs massacred more than 10,000 Bosnian Muslims, "Disneyland". In October last year, the politician said that "the Macedonian state has no future without Serbia". The deputy prime minister has welcomed every Russian politician who has come to Skopje, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. I BGNES
