Macedonian State News Agency MIA

Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Buckovski on 31 August met Nikolay Svinarov, defence minister of Bulgaria. After the meeting in a joint statement Minister Buckovski expressed satisfaction with the cooperation in the past period and added that it would continue in the future with the same intensity and `we will be an example for good neighbourly relations`. `We will have very common things, common ideals and we want to become NATO and EU members soon with which we can fulfil our goals easier,` Buckovski said. With regard to military-technical cooperation, the Macedonian defence minister said that it had been respectable so far and it would continue with the intensity as previously agreed. Bulgarian Defence Minister Svinarov informed the journalists that the current political situation in the Republic of Macedonia was the main topic in today`s talks. Both ministers, as Svinarov said, agreed that if the goals of the two countries remained the same there would be no changes in the relations. `We have agreed to help each other in many things and that we will not make any obstacles,` Bulgarian minister said. Friday afternoon, both ministers as well as Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, defence ministers of member states of peace brigades are to attend a ceremony of the change of the commander of multinational peace brigade for southeastern Europe.

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