North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, said on Thursday he expects the accession talks with the European Union to start by June or July this year, the Beta news agency reported.

Skopje implemented all necessary reforms, he said, adding his government had done “everything envisaged by the Reform Plan 18, which the European Commission approved.”

The only remaining issue is a law on prosecution which, Zaev said, is nearly finished since the consultation with the opposition is in progress.

North Macedonia has already got the green light to join NATO after the US President Donald Trump approved their bid and recommended to the US Senate to ratify it.

Skopje is accelerating its Euro-Atlantic integrations, following the June 2018 deal with Greece which ended the countries’ 27-year-long name dispute. According to the agreement, the country changed its name from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia into North Macedonia.

Athens was blocking Skopje from any integrations saying the name Macedonia suggested territorial claims to the northern Greek province of the same name.