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Regarding the Kocani fire, PM Hristijan Mickoski said the two critical periods, the first 72 hours and first seven days, had passed. The condition of more than 50-80% of those injured is stable, but there are five or six people whose condition was critical, he added.
“However, we are fighting and will continue to fight”, the PM noted, extending gratitude to medical teams in Kocani, Stip, and Skopje, as well as to all institutions providing help since the fire.
Regarding the city itself, the Government will double or triple the amount of funds for investment in infrastructure projects. Negotiations have already started with two companies in order for their investment location to be transferred to the Kocani industrial zone.
“Kocani will be our main priority in the period ahead”, Mickoski noted.
As far as SDSM’s accusations are concerned, Mickoski stated that accusations should be backed by evidence. In that regard, he said the Prosecutor’s Office should work unselectively and make sure that anyone over whom there was founded suspicions that they had, in any capacity and form, been involved in the Kocani fire and similar cases be punished.
When it comes to DUI’s accusations, the PM stated that Ali Ahmeti’s party had still not left “the system in which it’s been for more than 22 years” and not issued at least one apology to citizens, instead of politicising and ethnicising the case.
