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North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday Bulgaria’s Ambassador, Zhelyazko Radukov, over the absence of the flag of North Macedonia during President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova’s visit to Sofia. As the institution said, concern was expressed over the deviation from agreed-upon protocol regarding the taking of photos of Siljanovska Davkova and her Bulgarian counterpart, Rumen Radev, while, additionally, an explanation was ...

Commenting on the absence of the flag of North Macedonia during the visit by his counterpart from North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said on Monday the flag hadn’t been present because her visit to Sofia had been informal. According to him, the allegations about provocations from Bulgaria are speculations. Authorities in Skopje, Radev believes, are too ...

SDSM has criticised PM and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski over his stand on the absence of the flag of North Macedonia during President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova’s visit to Sofia. “Instead of condemning the humiliation of the Macedonian state in Bulgaria and urging accountability over the national embarrassment, Mickoski is trying to justify those that are to blame, Siljanovska Davkova and ...

In an interview with Sitel, regarding the absence of the flag of North Macedonia during her visit to Sofia, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova says her visit was not strictly private. “The visit had a cultural purpose because the Macedonian National Opera was performing there,” the President points out. Siljanovska Davkova says that though she doesn’t believe the flag situation was ...

Following the change within North Macedonia’s team that is part of the Skopje-Sofia History Commission, it’s uncertain whether the meeting, foreseen for 18 or 19 September, will be held. According to unofficial information, the meeting will not be held considering the new composition of North Macedonia’s team hasn’t been made official, even though it was determined at a closed session ...

Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi will definitely not convene a new Committee session over the Defenders Draft-Law. He told Kanal 5 on Monday that only Ilire Dauti, head of the Social Policy Committee, had that competence. “I am not violating the Rules of Procedure,” Gashi pointed out. To end all inconsistencies misused by MPs, Gashi will request that they be considered ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road ...

President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova met Friday in Sofia her Bulgarian counterpart, President Rumen Radev. Before the meeting, Radev said that the expressed desire for dialogue and understanding by President Siljanovska Davkova to become a consistent policy of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia. “Dialogue at the highest level between the two countries should be active and stimulate the ...

SDSM reacted over a photograph published from President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova’s meeting in Sofia with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, at which the two presidents are photographed shaking hands in the Office of President Radev, with two flags of Bulgaria and the EU in the background, and without a flag of North Macedonia. “The delegation of North Macedonia headed by President ...

Bulgaria will not renegotiate criteria from the agreement with North Macedonia, said Bulgarian Caretaker PM Dimitar Glavchev on Friday. “There is nothing to negotiate. They say they will not negotiate with a caretaker government but I would say we are not willing to negotiate because there is nothing to negotiate about. There is a common European position, they should negotiate ...