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AA fully supports country's EU integration process: leader 

AA fully supports country's EU integration process: leader 
Skopje, 7 November 2022 (MIA) - We are on our way to joining the EU, we have no other alternative. The Alliance for Albanians party fully supports the process and we will make utmost efforts to support the process, said Alliance for Albanians acting president Arben Taravari after Monday's leaders' meeting in Parliament. He welcomed the prime minister's initiative to convene the meeting. "I believe it is a good sign for the whole process to be more inclusive and more transparent. I hope the debate will continue," the party leader said. Since the country has no other alternative but EU accession, Taravari stated, the constitutional changes should not be seen as a risk but as an opportunity. "As an opportunity to include more ethnic communities in the preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, at the moment, it is being considered to include Bulgarians, Croatians and Montenegrins as well, maybe the Torbesh even at some point. Every society and every country is richer if it has many ethnic communities," he said. The AA leader also said that participants in the meeting also discussed the removal of the phrase involving the percentage of the use of Albanian language in the Constitution. "I believe it'd be fair for our fellow countrymen Macedonians to show respect toward those who make up 30 percent of the total number of the population living in Macedonia. I believe it is dignified to use Albanian language rather than figures or percentages," Taravari said adding that the political parties haven't said that they oppose the proposal.