Skopje, 15 January 2024 (MIA) — Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski met Monday with OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid in Vienna, Austria, according to an official press release.

The meeting discussed North Macedonia's successful 2023 OSCE Chairpersonship-in-Office, which had demonstrated the country's commitment to multilateralism, the release says.

Prime Minister Kovachevski and Secretary General Schmid agreed that North Macedonia's chairing the OSCE was a complex task, which the country had successfully completed amid the greatest security and geopolitical crisis on the European continent since World War II.

PM Kovachevski stressed at the meeting that as a member of the OSCE Troika, North Macedonia was ready to provide all necessary support to current chair Malta and to continue contributing to European security and stability.

Kovachevski and Schmid also discussed the upcoming elections in North Macedonia as well as the importance of the OSCE's role in that context. mr/