The prime suspect in the case concerning the Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski murders, Ljupco Palevski, has been arrested in Balikesir, Turkiye, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said at a press-conference on Tuesday that started at 10:30 pm. The Minister also showed the document of INTERPOL’s confirmation of the arrest. “I expect the extradition procedure to finish maximally quickly,” he added. ...

Prior to Interior Minister Spasovski’s press-conference, a 46-year-old man from Skopje had been detained in the case concerning the murders of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski. Police suspect that he helped prime suspect, Ljupco Palevski, escape to Turkiye, that is, he drove him from Serbia to Bulgaria and from Bulgaria to Turkey. Prosecutors have evidence that the suspect three days ...

The father of Vanja Gjorcevska, the 14-year-old missing girl killed on 27 November, has denied involvement in the case. “Perhaps something will change and has changed. The father still denies these activities. So, we still draw his involvement, which we still consider to be direct in this case, to the context of what the other people involved in the case ...

Commenting on the murders of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday that based on the explanations by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Prosecutor Gavril Bubevski, “it’s about an isolated a case of criminals that should be punished most fiercely, according to the laws”. Both the Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office, he added, managed to most ...

“The OSCE has been saved,” Chairperson-in-Office and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said at the closing press-conference of the Ministerial, on Friday. The participating States had previously adopted, by consensus, decisions for Malta to be the holder of Chairpersonship-in-Office next year, for the terms of OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid, Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro, and High ...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani responded on Friday to comments made by his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, saying it was Russia that caused problems in the region. As he added, the US and the EU are the only ones that are actively committed to and participate in the region’s democratisation and development, as well as with regards to ...

At the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council on Thursday, PM Dimitar Kovacevski stated that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s presence didn’t represent a victory for Russian diplomacy. “This absolutely isn’t any diplomatic victory by Russia. This is a diplomatic victory by the OSCE, considering the OSCE functioning had been called into question. With this, the OSCE will continue to ...

Part of ministers attending the OSCE Ministerial Council boycotted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech on Thursday, that is, they left the hall when it started. Lavrov started his speech by levelling accusations at EU and NATO members, stating that they had destroyed the OSCE’s military-political dimension. According to Lavrov, the Organisation is in a bad situation and was destroyed ...

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Skopje, where he was welcomed by PM Dimitar Kovacevski. “A warm welcome to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. At the meeting this afternoon, we once again highlighted our excellent relations and discussed the support provided by the US in continuity on our path to full- fledged EU membership and ...

VoA Macedonian, citing VoA’s State Department correspondent, quoted a senior Department official as saying that they didn’t expect Secretary Antony Blinken to have any meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the OSCE Ministerial Council in North Macedonia. “We don’t expect a meeting,” the official confirmed, answering a question about the possibility of any Blinken-Lavrov meeting. Asked about the ...