Hungarian FM Visits Macedonia

Balazs is set to meet with his host, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, as well as President Georgi Ivanov and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

Hungary will take over the rotating presidency of the European Union at the beginning of next year.

Greece's suggestion that all the remaining Western Balkans countries become part of EU by the year 2014 is too optimistic, Balazc said earlier this week in Budapest, where he met his Serbian and Greek counterparts, Vuk Jeremic and Dimitris Droutsas, respectively.

However, he pledged that his country will offer its strong support for the process to be completed as soon as possible. He said that only Croatia can hope to join in 2011, while Serbia and Macedonia will have to wait for several more years.

A Cooperation Protocol between the countries' foreign ministries is also to be signed, the Macedonian Foreign Ministry informed.
 
The two foreign ministers had a brief tete-a-tete earlier this month on the sidelines of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Cordoba, Spain.

Balazs is also scheduled to meet with Abdilaqim Ademi, Macedonia’s deputy prime minister in charge of the implementation of the 2001 Ohrid Peace Accord.