Mickoski to meet with leaders of NATO countries, American businesses and the diaspora in the United States

Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is in Washington DC leading a government delegation to attend the NATO summit. The delegation includes Defense Minister Vlado Misajlovski, Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Timco Mucunski and Interior Minister Pance Toskovski.

During his visit to the United States, Mr. Mickoski will meet with American business leaders to present the investment potential of his country. He will also have numerous bilateral meetings with statesmen from NATO member countries. In New York, he will meet with “the Macedonian diaspora and emigration to hear what they expect from the new government” and what it will offer them to attract them to their homeland, the prime minister said in a video message from Washington, broadcast by the government press service in Skopje.

“I will unveil a new foreign investment from a company that is on the list of the top 500 American companies, new investments worth tens of millions of euros and new jobs for Macedonian citizens,” Mickoski said in his video message.

The Washington summit offers the first opportunity for a meeting between the head of government of North Macedonia and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after Athens’ strong reaction to the way North Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska and government officials in Skopje interpret the use of their country’s constitutional name.

According to the government press office, Mickoski is scheduled to meet with senior officials at the International Republican Institute and with Congressman Brendan Boyle and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who co-chair the institute.
Congressional Macedonian Caucus. The prime minister of North Macedonia will also attend the White House dinner for NATO leaders, while Misyalovski and Mucunski will be present at special dinners hosted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.