May Plans First U.K. Visit to Republic of Macedonia Since 1999
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Theresa May will visit the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia this week in the first planned trip to the western Balkans by a U.K. prime minister in almost two decades.
May will first attend a European Union summit with western Balkan leaders in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on May 17, discussing the region’s next steps on the path to EU entry, May’s office said in an email Thursday. She’s the first U.K. leader to go to the country since Tony Blair visited the Skopje refugee camps during the Kosovo crisis in 1999.