Skopje, 3 April 2024 (MIA) — Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani met Wednesday with Lord Stuart Peach, the UK Prime Minister's Special Envoy to the Western Balkans, according to an official press release.

Their talks focused on bilateral relations and the possibilities for intensifying security cooperation, the release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

"We highly appreciate the long-term British support to projects for implementing reforms in various areas of key importance for the country's European integration process and of course we should consider any possibilities of promoting cooperation in the field of security," the release quoted FM Osmani as saying at the meeting.

In light of North Macedonia's fourth anniversary of becoming a NATO member, meeting participants also spoke about the country's noticeable contribution to the Alliance by raising the security of its Southern Flank and improving the stability in the region and across the European continent in general, according to the release. mr/