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In an interview after the meeting, PM Grueski said they had discussed ways of enhancing mu-tual co-operation.

“We discussed co-operation in the African Uni-on, with the European countries and, of course, all the potential we have to exploit in Zimbabwe,” he said.

On sanctions, the Macedonian premier said though they were not an EU member with no part to play in the illegal embargo, their view was that dialogue between Zimbabwe and the bloc should continue for normalisation of relations.

Zimbabwe-EU dialogue began in June last year with a ministerial troika meeting in Brussels and continued with an EU Troika visit to Harare last September.
Another meeting that was scheduled for February this year did not take place after the EU dithered on giving Zimbabwe the date for the dialogue.

EU members have also frustrated Zimbabwe by refusing to issue visas to some members of the ministerial delegation to attend meetings in Europe and detaining some of them at their airports.
The EU has continued to extend the widely-discredited sanctions in breach of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement that guides relations between the Africa-Carribean-Pacific bloc and Europe.

The Third Africa-European Union Summit opened on Monday amid concerns that the West views the meeting as a platform for a “second mission to save Africa” and analysts saying the agenda shows current engagement is not that of equals.-The Herald