North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is in Washington D.C. at the head of a government delegation for participation in the NATO Summit. The delegation includes Defence Minister Vlado Misajlovski, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trades Minister Timco Mucunski and Interior Minister Pance Toskovski.

During his visit to the US, Mickoski will hold a meeting with American business executives to present the investment potential offered by his country. He will also have a large number of bilateral meetings with statesmen of NATO member countries. In New York, he will meet the “Macedonian diaspora and emigration to hear what they expect of the new government” and what it will offer to attract them back to the home country, the Prime Minister said in a video message from Washington, circulated by the Government Press Service in Skopje.

“I will unveil a new foreign investment by a company that is on the list of the top 500 US companies, new dozens of millions of euro investments and new jobs for Macedonian citizens,” Mickoski said in his video message.

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

According to the Government Press Service, Mickoski is scheduled to confer with senior officials of the International Republican Institute and with Congressman Brendan Boyle and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who co-chair the 
Congressional Macedonian Caucus. North Macedonia’s Prime Minister will also attend the White House dinner for the NATO countries’ leaders, whereas Misyalovski and Mucunski will be present at special dinners hosted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.