Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, commenting on developments following the Venice Commission’s recommendations on the Law on Languages, said that as a government they do not intend to go back and intend to guarantee the rights they have been granted but to be practically applicable.

The right to use language is a human right, we should nurture it, it does not endanger any other right of any other ethnicity or any other language, but if that right endangers another right such as the right to justice, then everyone should think over. This is recommended by the Venice Commission. So we need to follow the recommendations ourselves, to implement them. We will discuss the ways of implementation with the institutions , said the outgoing Prime Minister in response to a reporter’s question at the presentation of the initiative of the Macedonian-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Macedonian Chambers of Commerce for a gas pipeline from Strumica to Petrich.

He added that they would continue to work together with the opposition Albanian parties in seeking a solution for the recommendations of the Venice Commission to be implemented