Moghrin and Mitchell in Skopje for referendum support

Mogherin will have meetings with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, with President Gjorge Ivanov, meanwhile, to meet with opposition leader Hristian Mickovski. As the government press service announced, Moghrin and Zaev will visit Skopje's Old Carshia, where short media statements will be issued.

The purpose of the visit, Moghrin's cabinet say, is to talk to “about the future of relations and the prospect of EU integration for the country”, MIA correspondent from Brussels announced.

The high representative recalled that she welcomed the historic “agreement reached with Greece for the name and that the EU supports the country, in accordance with the EU's strengthened “geming for the Western Balkans”.

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Asian Affairs Wes Mitchell, as State Department addressed, will have meetings with Prime Minister Zaev and with other officials for support of the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and Greece and the upcoming referendum on September 30th.

Mitchell in Skopje will also hold meetings with representatives of parliamentary parties and the business community, with whom it will trade opinions and highlight US support for Macedonia's integration into the European family, it is said in a statement.

As announced by the government president, Zaev and Mitchelll after the meeting will issue statements to the media before the government's platform first at 6:30.

Last weekend, US Senator and head of the Commission for State Security Ron Johnson, who is one of the co-ponsors of the Senate Resolution for Support of the Prespa Agreement, visited Macedonia next weekend, while a senior American representative will also visit US Defence Secretary James Mattis. Mattis comes to Skopje to express clear support for the upcoming referendum on the name issue, but also grief over Moscow's possible evolution in the process.

I will go to visit our friends of Macedonia and will clearly suggest that the US supports the people of Macedonia”, Mattis said in a statement to reporters at the Pentagon.

Mattis stressed that he is concerned that Russia could evolve in the referendum process in Macedonia.

The visits, which in Macedonia in the past period make significant political personalities of NATO and the EU, according to Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska, also present a confirmation that the state is on track, and therefore has such support.

The first man to visit Monday comes from the Pentagon, the first man of the world's most powerful army James Mattis, taking place for the first time in the last 14 years. We forgot what appears to be the visit of a US minister or secretary of defence, even though this country is our strategic political and military partner. This shows how much interest is in us and support for what we have worked on in the last year”, Sekerinska added.

The past few days in intensive diplomatic activities in Skopje remained and showed support for the successful German Chancellor Angela Merkel, secretary general NATO Jens Stoltenberg, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Luxembourg and Netherlands Foreign Affairs Minister Jean Asselborn and Stephen Block, as support also came from high representatives from many countries in the region.