Skopje, 17 November 2022 (MIA) – Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski said Thursday that North Macedonia and Serbia are now much closer to reaching an agreement which would allow the Macedonian gas plant to use Serbia's natural gas surplus in order to produce electricity. “This will make it possible for our industry to receive cheaper electricity than the one it gets from the markets, and Serbia will be able to compensate for its shortages of electricity especially in the southern part of the country. We were asked numerous times if we had reached a solution. Our teams have not stopped working and I think that right now we are closer to a solution than we were at the beginning,” said Kovachevski at the end of his address at the joint press conference with Western Balkan leaders. ad/ba/