The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov today had a working meeting with the Ambassadors of the EU member states and the EU candidate countries resident in the Republic of Macedonia, where views were exchanged on the current developments related to the Euro-Atlantic prospects of the Republic of Macedonia.

President Ivanov expressed his opinion that the 2010 EC Progress Report on Macedonia offers a realistic evaluation of both the country's achievements and weaknesses in the past year.
- Objective assessment is that the Republic of Macedonia has never been better that today in terms of implementing the reforms and meeting the criteria and that today, objectively speaking, Macedonia is at the same level in meeting criteria as other candidate countries, current members states, at this integration process stage, Macedonian President stressed.

President Ivanov said that he would personally urge all institutions in the Republic of Macedonia to address the notified weaknesses as soon as possible and that he will insist on maintaining the reform momentum and implementation of the Action Plan of the Republic of Macedonia for EU membership.

Concerning Macedonia's aspirations for full-fledged NATO membership, President Ivanov said that the Republic of Macedonia has been a faithful and loyal partner to the Alliance and he also said that he sees Macedonia’s future in this family.
Macedonian President reaffirmed that the priorities within his competences for the upcoming period will remain the same: continuation of the reform processes, full focus on finding mutually acceptable solution, thus unblocking the EU and NATO integration processes, building good neighborly relations and intensive regional cooperation.