The ROC foreign ministry states that it hopes Macedonia will become the ROC's window on Europe. After the withdrawal of the ROC embassy from Portugal in 1975, the Vatican had been the only country in Europe to maintain formal diplomatic ties with the ROC.
外交部表示，我國與馬其頓建交，即希望它能成為我國在歐洲的窗口，因為自一九七五年我國撤除駐葡萄牙公使館後，在歐洲的邦交國只剩梵諦岡教廷，馬國是二十四年來在歐洲增加的第一個邦交國。