Skopje, 23 August 2023 (MIA) – Any well-intentioned interlocutor is welcome, as well as anyone who wants to hear the arguments of the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE, said the opposition party’s leader, Hristijan Mickoski, ahead of Thursday’s visit of the US Deputy Assistant Secretary and Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, to Skopje.

“Recently we’ve had a lot of visits from foreign high representatives. We will hear their arguments, we will state our arguments. We can approximately guess the contents of the meeting, so any well-intentioned interlocutor is welcome, anyone who wants to hear the arguments of the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE and the people, is welcome. The fact that the Government is now trying to paint Escobar’s visit as a ‘diplomatic bulldozer’ called by the Government to carry out torture and put pressure is a weakness of these criminals in the Government. No one uses pressure and torture in the 21st century anymore, and if they do, then they’ve chosen the wrong people to talk to,” said Mickoski in answer to a journalist’s question.

According to Mickoski, in a few months there will be a new Government and a new reality in the country, while the Government, he said, “should accept early parliamentary elections because they can’t deliver what they promised to deliver without any legitimacy.”

In response to the statement of US Ambassador Angela Aggeler that the citizens should let the politicians know they want to be a part of the EU, Mickoski said he agrees “with the Ambassador’s statement, because the citizens are the sovereign in the country, and they should go to the polls as soon as possible and say ‘yes to the European Union’ but also choose the solution on how to fulfill that ‘yes’.”

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