The Action Plan on Minorities is ready, coordinated with an expert from the European Commission, like no other country has done, and has been unofficially harmonized with twenty-six member states, except for one, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said in response to media questions after his visit to the Public Health Institute in Skopje.
Asked how far the Government has come with the Action Plan on Minorities and what specifically that one country is requesting, Mickoski said that he would answer if he only knew.
“The Action Plan on Minorities is ready, coordinated with an expert that we received from the European Commission. A human rights expert, there were two public hearings, like no other country that has done it and I am saying this unofficially, it is coordinated with twenty-six member states, except for one. Just as that one is against us being part of the Three Seas initiative. It is what it is,” said PM Mickoski.
The draft action plan for the protection and promotion of the rights of members of the communities, which was developed in Macedonian and English by domestic and international experts, in close consultation with the Council of Europe and the European Commission, is a document that contains clearly defined measures, deadlines and competent institutions and is fully aligned with the highest European standards.
PM Mickoski stated at the end of last month, after meeting with Croatian Prime Andrej Plenković in Skopje, that we are ready to deliver the Action Plan on Minorities, which we worked on together with Brussels and experts recommended by the EC, but emphasized that “if bilateral issues are the ones that should judge our EU path, then we will fight in a different way.”
