Tag: Nikola Dimitrov
Macedonia 24.08.19 | 23:33

Back down, Minister, you are not honest

Who knew, but now we all know, “Republika” was the biggest threat to the government at the moment. Not “Racket”, not the persons involved in it, not global warming, not the environmental disaster around us, nor the shining of the Macedonian economy – but the “Republika”...

Macedonia 24.08.19 | 15:34

Nikola Dimitrov threatens “Republika”, calls for early elections

In a Facebook post, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov makes open threats to the Republika news portal over the reporting on Infomax’s writings which included a record of a witness statement in the BPPO’s “Racket” case, Orce Kamcev, and prosecutor which prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska...

Macedonia 24.08.19 | 09:58

From Kamcev’s statement to Ruskoska: Zoran Zaev, Jovce and Frosina Remenski, Radmila Sekerinska and Nikola Dimitrov are directly involved in “Racket”

“From September 2018 until sometime April 10, 2019, I am constantly blackmailed by a group of people who extorted a large sum of money from me,” Orce Kamcev said in a statement made before prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska on May 2 this year. The racket started when Bojanov Jovanovski – Boki...

Macedonia 18.08.19 | 20:24

He had a bad feeling, so he didn’t even meet Boki 13: Dimitrov comments on “Racket” case

Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov has said that the “Racket” case must be only an additional motive in the fight for justice. The fact that the crime wants to discredit its persecutor should not surprise us. It is shocking that someone seems to have allowed the thirst for justice to be used...

Macedonia 12.07.19 | 17:16

Dimitrov: Do you think that in the 21st century there is a record of every communication?

The purpose of the fake news and the false representation is defocus and confusion. The more we talk about that topic, the more we help those whose interest is obvious is to have a mess. I think that we have important things, we will be wise if we focus on the right things. The right thing is the increase...

Macedonia 27.06.19 | 10:38

Nikola Dimitrov read letters from Goce Delcev ahead of Thursday’s meetings in Sofia

Within the framework of the Black Sea Initiative, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov will meet Thursday in Sofia with senior political representatives of Bulgaria to define their position on Goce Delcev as a historical person, as well as to contribute to finding a mutually acceptable solution. He revealed...

Macedonia 07.06.19 | 11:41

EU’s credibility at stake, Dimitrov tells Politico

Politico Europe analyzes Friday Macedonia’s diplomatic efforts to convince EU member-states and especially French President Emmanuel Macron to give the green light for a date on accession accessions. Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov tells Politico Europe his job is to make it clear that it will...

Macedonia 10.05.19 | 09:11

Miko: Dimitrov will leave because he has nothing in common with most Macedonians

Although Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov denies that he is leaving the country whose name he changed, former honorary Macedonian consul in the US state of Arizona, Jason Miko, is confident that the foreign minister will soon leave his post and the state. And maybe he is telling the truth,...

Macedonia 08.05.19 | 09:53

Dimitrov to leave the country whose name he changed for a new job in the US

Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov will leave Macedonia soon for a new job as Senior Advisor and Analyst at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC, diplomatic sources told Magazine. Minister Dimitrov received this job offer in America in the period prior to the signing of the Prespa Agreement, personally...

Macedonia 02.05.19 | 17:11

Dimitrov: I am optimistic that we will start EU accession negotiations this year

Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov in an interview with Kanal 5 categorically rejects the opposition’s claims that the country will not start accession negotiations with the EU this year. He believes that the country will receive the best European Commission report so far.

Macedonia 09.04.19 | 17:24

Dimitrov boasted in Washington: We also helped NATO to bomb Serbia

“Macedonian Minister shocks: We also helped to bomb Serbia”, reads the headline of Serbian news portal Alo.rs, conveying the general feeling of the Serbs that the Macedonians are happy that Serbia was bombed and that they are proud to have contributed in that. Last week in Washington, foreign...

Macedonia 28.03.19 | 20:40

Dimitrov: Government and opposition to jointly work on EU integration

Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov at Parliament’s Q&A session on Thursday accepted an initiative by opposition lawmaker Panco Minov urging Parliament to pass a resolution to uphold the country’s reform-oriented and integration processes. The experience of all the countries that have walked...

Macedonia 18.03.19 | 15:56

France and the Netherlands still reluctant to back start of EU negotiations with Macedonia

Regardless of an overwhelming support amongst EU countries for the start of negotiations with our country, several Western European countries – most notably France and the Netherlands – are still reluctant to back this process, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said after a working...

Macedonia 12.03.19 | 19:26

Nikola Dimitrov went one step further – the language of the Aegean Macedonians was not Macedonian

Is the Government completely giving up on the Macedonian minorities? Although the claims of the leaders of the ruling majority were that minorities remain protected, according to the statement of Greek Foreign Minister Athanasia Anagnostopoulou, Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov protects minorities...

Macedonia 11.03.19 | 15:30

Not on our behalf, Mr. Dimitrov!

I am shocked by the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Dimitrov, that the Macedonian language spoken by the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia has nothing to do with the language of the Greek Macedonians. 24 hours have passed, and nobody has denied this claim yet, the candidate for...

Macedonia 11.03.19 | 10:04

Dimitrov: The Macedonian language is different from the language of the Macedonians in Greece

Greece’s Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Sia Anagnostopoulou following the meetings in Skopje thanked Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov who stated that the language in “his country has nothing in common with the language of the Greek Macedonians”. In a statement...

Macedonia 09.03.19 | 13:44

Dimitrov: We changed the name because we think about the next generations

We have turned a page, we are completely in a new era, but this page is white and now we will have to write on it, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said in an interview with the Greek newspaper “Efimerida ton Syntakton”, MIA reports from Athens. The Foreign Minister explained that now there...

Macedonia 02.03.19 | 14:49

Dimitrov on the Macedonian minority in Greece: We agreed that there will be no interventions

The BBC article on the existence of a “Macedonian minority” in Greece is a Greek “internal affair issue and subject of Greek debate”, Nikola Dimitrov said in an interview with the Greek TV SKAI. I live and breathe the Prespa Agreement for months… I also sometimes see it in my dreams. That is...

Macedonia 25.02.19 | 21:12

Siljanovska says Dimitrov is the embodiment of the fear of the past

VMRO-DPMNE’s presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova commented on the statement made by Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov that nowadays the main topic of this election should be the future, not the past: “Elections will be a choice between hope and fear.” On Monday evening...

Macedonia 04.02.19 | 21:01

Dimitrov: Macedonia recognizes Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president

“The Republic of Macedonia, in line with its European partners, supports and considers the President of the Venezuelan Assembly, Juan Guaido, as Interim President, in accordance with the Constitution, in order to organize free, fair and democratic presidential elections,” Macedonia’s...