Vucic: No Open Issues between Serbia, North Macedonia

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Vucic: No Open Issues between Serbia, North Macedonia

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated on Aug. 2 that there were no unresolved issues between Serbia and North Macedonia and that the two nations had brotherly relations.

Vucic said after a meeting with the president of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, in the Prohor Pcinjski monastery, that Serbia asked nothing of North Macedonia except for further advancement of cooperation. “Relations between our countries are exceptional. In Serbia, we love North Macedonia and the Macedonian language and understand it perfectly. I have no problem in saying that we are not just friends, but also brotherly nations,” Vucic stated at a joint news conference with Pendarovski.

He recollected that annual trade between the two countries had reached EUR1.5 billion. “I believe our cooperation will develop further. We are working on improving our peoples’ living standards and we talked about further connecting via the railways,” stated the Serbian president.

Vucic thanked the Serbian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Porfirije for, in his words, historical decision to the benefit of the two peoples, in connection with the status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. “You are always welcome anywhere in the territory of Serbia, just as we feel at home when visiting you,” Vucic said and congratulated the national holiday of Ilinden to the citizens of North Macedonia.