Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani are set to meet with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva in Berlin on Monday evening.

The Government told MIA that Dimitrov and Osmani had been invited to a working meeting in Berlin by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth.

The purpose of the talks is to find ways to bring the positions of Skopje and Sofia closer and to enable the start of negotiations between the Republic of Macedonia and the EU within the Germany’s presidency.