Skopje, 14 February 2024 (MIA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani, accompanied by Caretaker Prime Minister Talat Xhaferi and Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bojan Marichikj, during their visit to Brussels, also visited Wednesday the Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia where in addition to consular services, citizens can have their biometric photos taken for the issuance of passports.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that at the Embassy Xhaferi, Marichikj and Osmani met with Macedonian citizens and assured them that efforts are being made so that citizens do not face any problems for the renewal of personal documents.

"Every request from our citizens is our responsibility, and a responsibility for diplomats in the representative offices whose aim is to provide a quick, efficient and quality response. This period where we are strongly committed to facing this challenge imposed by the enormous increase in demand for consular services, especially regarding travel documents," Osmani said.

Issuing emergency travel documents, he added, for Macedonian citizens living abroad and delivering them by mail in countries without diplomatic consular representatives, is only a part of the solution.

"Next we need to organize consular days and other solutions for citizens living abroad, for which our representative offices have already been informed, and will be announced soon," noted Osmani.

Minister Osmani briefed meeting participants that the process of issuing passports is taking longer than usual because it takes longer to hand over the new passports at our representative offices.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a limited number of base and mobile stations. One of the mobile stations is right at the embassy in Brussels which, in coordination with the Macedonian embassy at the Hague and Paris, also offers biometric passport photos for our citizens living in the Netherlands and France," the press release reads. ssh/sk/

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