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VMRO-DPMNE does not acknowledge the referendum results and considers the Prespa agreement as politically void, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikolovski stated late Thursday following the Executive Committee session discussing the referendum and political situation in the country. He called on the government to stop the pressure again those that voted against or did not go out to vote at the ...

A three-day 6. Regional European Conference on safe communities ‘Attaining goals of sustainable development-toward violence-free community’ opened in Skopje. Health and Labour Ministers Venko FIlipce and Mila Carovska respectively pointed out the efforts invested by authorities for creating safe community and for preventing violence. Filipce noted that community free of violence is a major public-health challenge. “We witness various types ...

In the region, we are not exporters of instability toward Europe, but we are indeed a transit zone when it comes to smuggling of drugs, weapons as well as radicalization. Thus, we want to contribute to full stabilization and increasing the level of security across the European territory all the while making a clear distinction that the issues aren’t produced ...

The agreement with Greece is the only way for joining NATO or the international community, but citizens and institutions of the country should make a decision to that effect, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference Wednesday. “What I can say is that membership in NATO is only possible if the name agreement with Greece is implemented. There ...

Under the title “Minutes of FYROM Leaders’ Deliberations” the Greek daily Kathimerini published Tuesday extensive extracts from the minutes of the two meetings of Macedonia’s political party leaders, held on 27 January 2018 and 19 May 2018, about the negotiations with Greece before the name deal was signed later in June. In several texts dedicated to the leaders’ meeting, Kathimerini ...

The situation in Macedonia following the referendum these days is a hot topic in neighbouring countries. Ex Bulgarian President Georgi Prvanov, in an interview with Bulgarian Television BNT, assesses that the ‘pushing’ of agreement in parliament, after the low turnout at the referendum, would not result in reconciliation and attaining national consensus, but it would heighten differences. Prvanov comments that ...

Three models are currently mulled within the broader process of reforms in security-intelligence services and the attempts to put an end to partisan-political or other influences on the work of this sector, said Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski and Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) director Goran Nikolovski on Tuesday.  Minister Spasovski told a press conference that a report on ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has filed a report to the Interior Ministry and the Public Prosecutor’s Office involving a forgery and possible misuse of an institution and a manner for communication in connection to a fake resignation letter of Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, which was leaked on Monday, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski told a news conference Tuesday. 24 News ...

NATO has said Macedonia could become a member of the Alliance in 2019 provided that it accepted the Prespa Agreement. The accession talks with Macedonia could be completed in January 2019 and the country could join NATO as early as the beginning of next year, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Speaking Tuesday at a news conference in Brussels, ...

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn says that Macedonia could wait for another decade if the Prespa Agreement is not endorsed in the Parliament. FM Asselborn, who was the key person in June’s decision of giving Macedonia an EU accession talks date, says there is no success in politics without a sense for compromise. “One needs to assess things well in ...