It is very important to start negotiations with the European Union, it is one of the most important strategic interests for the country, because the country has no other alternative. But at the same time we have a duty to survive as Macedonians. And that battle for our strategic interests must not be at all costs, that is, at a cost for us to cease to exist. We must not lose ourselves as a nation in our only goal for integration into the Union, but to enter there preserved, Mickoski emphasized at Saturday’s press conference.

According to him, we as a nation and state cannot accept to deny ourselves, or self-deny at any cost.