In an interview with “360 Degrees”, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov talked about the ongoing name negotiations after the last meeting with Greek counterpart Nikos Kodzias in Ohrid.

He said that significant conditional progress was achieved in Vienna, but also that large mountains remain, that is, they remain open without solving the most difficult issues, such as the Greek demand for changing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and the scope of using the new solution. Dimitrov confirmed that from the four key elements in the negotiations (the new complex name, scope, language and citizenship), one stands as a difference, which also affects others.

– Perhaps I can only implicitly answer that in our goal of achieving a greater distinction because Greece is looking for it, in the interest of our future, opening doors, investing in this friendship with our neighbor, it is important for us not to pick up the identity, because we can not change this by agreement, nor any current policy, future, past, can do it, and here we have signals from Vienna, after that, now, which go in a good direction, but this solution is very important to be sustainable, and to be sustainable it must be It is dignified and still have a difference in the coverage element. I think it is important when measuring the steps and the future agreement, to take into account the current legal regime and to measure the agreement according to the reality, what is it now, and not in relation to the initial negotiating positions, since the initial negotiating positions can be many far from reality. It is therefore very important to know what the situation is now, and now the situation with the scope is very clear, we internationally have in some way a double formula. References The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is used by one third of the member states, in all relevant international organizations, we mainly use that reference … and this is the point from which the final result and the essence of the agreement should be measured. I think that in the projections of what is being discussed now, if there is a political will, one can find, perhaps with a degree of creativity, a way to touch their main interests, and to preserve our main interests. Here is the main challenge, how to do it – said Dimitrov.

Regarding the request for erga omnes, Dimitrov said that our name is Macedonia, and no one can intertwine or change it.

“The work is to find a distinction that will help solve this problem from our country Macedonia in relation to the” Macedonia “region in Greece, because the geographical region” Macedonia “is at least in three countries – said Dimitrov

Setting up a monument is a solemn act and by definition it should not take place in the early hours of the smuggling. It is obvious that someone knew or knew the legal situation. The controversy that such a placement of such a character, at that location, with such a terrible message of extermination of people entering the court knew him and thus decided instead to make a solemn act of placing a monument to someone who might be credited, or in the concrete case is a fictional character in our history. While the demolition of the illegal building has no solemnity. You do not have to do it with fanfare and announcements, and here you are rational in the approach.

In an interview with “360 Degrees”, Petre Shilegov, Mayor of Skopje, spoke about the announced removal of galleys from the river Vardar in the center of Skopje.
He denied the sum of 8m euros, calling it a lie to VMRO-DPMNE.

The amount of 4.5 to 5 million euros is the one that is needed. They choose to create a lie for their populist motives. A sum of 8 million euros was never overlooked – said Shilegov.

Asked that such a sum is very serious, the Mayor Shilegov mentioned the recent spills of Vardar and the consequences of this.
I can not be a witness and a spectator of what is happening – said Shilegov.

He talked about the UNDP study on possible floods in Skopje, where material damage is estimated up to 500m euros.
You should be mayor of Skopje, to know what can happen … and it can happen every day. Stajkovci is a proof that things can happen overnight … And now I have to sit still and say – okay, if it happens, if some fellow citizens die, they even die, if our buildings are flooded there is damage, comes … what should I do, Nikola Gruevski decided to play lego cubes with the center of the city of Skopje. It’s not about Shilegov’s whim that he wants to destroy Skopje 2014. It is about the safety of the citizens of the City of Skopje. To whom tomorrow I will have to explain why I did not remove the ships if God forbid, a citizen drowned in those floods, or the houses are shaking the ground – said Shilegov.

He said that the amount includes penalties to galleys owners, and that they will have to be dismantled and the foundations to be demolished.

Ordanoski: Weak government without a clear concept, there must be Plan B if we do not solve the dispute with Greece
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In the debate on “360 Degrees”, the analyst Sasho Ordanoski spoke about the current work of the Government of Zoran Zaev.

We do not see a clear concept of what it is to do this, we can now qualify it as a weak Government. There are also ministerial solutions, bad ministerial solutions, Zaev entered a coalition with DUI for the mathematical circumstances in parliament, accepted DUI to act as if the world had not changed anything. It is now a victim of those policies, since the DUI really behaves as if it were a continuation of 2012, for example. On the other hand, in the SDSM itself, there are problematic personnel solutions, it is seen that there is not even a vision in one of the key departments about where the story should move – said Ordanoski.

He thinks that this causes additional pressure from the public that previously helped to overthrow the previous government.

No coherent policy is seen, no initiative is seen. This is not a “care-taking government,” this is not a business as usual; this is not just an ordinary thing in which the government should only change and continue. We need a new step in all areas, even somewhere, and a controversial step forward. We do not need a simple extension where it stopped. So if we continue, the previous ones were better. At least they were even more enthusiastic. Because they were not democrats they were more efficient, and faster in everything. I want to say, this combination is difficult at the table of new ministers and Zaev. It implies that the public is hungry, impatient, part of the public wants to see blood, not in the literal sense, but in a political sense, to have victims in the process, to have people who will be responsible for what they did – said Ordanoski.

In a debate on “360 Degrees”, analyst Sefer Tahiri talked about the name talks and the possible acceptable solution for ethnic Albanians in Macedonia.

We know that many of the states, including the state that we are talking about, Greece, do not have the same naming within their own country or Albania. Regarding the Slavic name, I have said on another occasion, maybe different intellectuals do not say it because they may believe it will sound populist. Any solution that would be acceptable to the Macedonian people without touching the identity of the Macedonian people, and when I say the Macedonian identity, I am primarily thinking of language, cultural tradition, history and so on … it would be acceptable for the Albanians if there is no Slavic complaint because among them would be the use of the name in a Slavic way or in one language, that is, Macedonian, because it would make no sense. I have said in other debates, we as a society and an internal public have a chance to prove that we can pass the rubicon of ethnocentrism when we are in the name. What does this mean? So that we need to find a solution that will overcome our ethnic identities and will have a name that will be acceptable for all citizens, including Upper Macedonia in a version in Macedonian and only Macedonian language for internal and external use is not acceptable because it does not reflects the multi ethnicity of the country – said Tahiri.

He also referred to the debate about the identity that he says is manipulating the public, because the talks only speak of citizenship, and not of a nation of ethno-cultural aspect.