Kotzias, Mogherini and Hahn to visit Skopje after Easter
Foreign Ministers Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias will meet again on April 12th in Macedonia, but not in Skopje. If the meeting on Thursday goes as planned, the two prime ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, will meet soon, which will be their second meeting since the negotiations began. “On the 12th of April, as Mr. Kotzias informed me, the next important meeting with the Foreign Minister of the FYROM will take place, and if it goes well, the case will be handed to the two prime ministers,” said Stavros Theodorakis, leader of the To Potami (‘The River’) party.
EU sources say that immediately after the EC’s Progress Report on Macedonia, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn will arrive on April 18th. Their visit is related to the report, but it is more than certain that the intensified negotiations with Greece will also be on the agenda.
The name dispute was also a topic at a Greek government session, without specifying more details. In accordance with the agreement reached between Prime Ministers Zaev and Tsipras, yesterday the letters of the new name of the International Airport Skopje were placed