"Today we have opened a new phase in the European journey of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. We have launched the High Level Accession Dialogue. With it we are building a bridge which will lead us to the accession negotiations. We are creating a process which opens opportunity for all the stakeholders to be part of it. The main focus of this bridge are reforms because they will help to transform the country and brig closer the European perspective. With Prime Minister Gruevski we mean business: if you look at the results of today's dialogue - it is not empty political declaration but a list of concrete conclusions and an annex with targets for different areas. In this list you will find concrete commitments to prepare a roadmap to address, in operational way, the five issues discussed today at the High Level Accession Dialogue. You will also find a reflexion of my commitment to come back to Skopje for this dialogue again in May and September. I look forward to working with the Prime Minister, the government and other important national stakeholders" stated commissioner Füle on 15 March at the press conference in Skopje .

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