Foreign Affairs Minister, Bujar Osmani, who is taking part in the extraordinary meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, expressed Macedonia’s support for Ukraine before the meeting, MIA reports from Brussels.

The second message of the Macedonian Foreign Minister prior to the meeting was that EU enlargement is now becoming a vital issue from a security point of view given the Russian attacks in the east.

EU needs to accelerate enlargement to the east, said Bujar Osmani, referring to the blockade on Macedonia and Albania, in the context of the application for membership of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.

This crisis, he said, has shown that enlargement policy is a security issue.