Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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My apologies for interrupting but I accept that North Macedonia has come a great distance if we are talking about the 1990s and the fact that a great number of these countries were at war with each other, in a particularly horrible genocidal war. We have all seen, however, that there are particular issues if one is looking at Republika Srpska now, and while North Macedonia is most definitely part of Europe and a great deal closer than even some of the countries we are talking about with regard to accession, North Macedonia is nevertheless ensconced in some of these particular issues just from a geographical point of view.