Struga, 15 June 2023 (MIA) - Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski kicked off the 2023 Prespa Forum Dialogue on Thursday with a keynote address at the official opening session "Prespa Agreement Five Years on: Challenges Turned into Opportunities".

"With the Prespa Agreement and all the subsequent steps to date, we have restored faith in diplomacy, promoting open dialogue as a benefit. Thus, we showed an applicable and functional example of resolving crises that has a special meaning in today's geopolitical context of developments, for resolving similar challenges that the region and Europe are facing today," PM Kovachevski said.

Kovachevski noted that sustainable solutions are achieved at a table where dialogue is conducted, between leaders who have the political will to understand each other for the sake of their people and their country.

"The member states of the EU, NATO, the U.S., see North Macedonia today as a factor of stability and security in Europe. Because of all that, today we are realistically looking at 2030 as an achievable goal for the country's full-fledged EU membership," he pointed out. 

Kovacevski stressed that North Macedonia has shown that no sincere effort is in vain.

"And when I say there is proof, then the best proof is the Prespa Agreement, which was a solution to a bilateral dispute five years ago, and today is a model for perspectives for the future," Kovachevski told the official opening session on Thursday.

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