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Commenting on the sentences announced by the Criminal Court in the 27 April case, VMRO-DPMNE said on Friday the Court and government had “buried the legal state”. Describing the sentences as draconic, the party added that they were a result of the political pressure being exerted by the government in the pre-election period. In response, SDSM stated that VMRO-DPMNE and ...

On Friday, FM Nikola Dimitrov held a meeting in Athens with Greek PS Nikolaos Voutsis. They said they were satisfied because the internal procedures in the two countries regarding the ratification of the Prespa Agreement and it entering into force had ended. Dimitrov and Voutsis also expressed the two sides’ pledges to successfully implement the deal. “I think we’ve unlocked ...

Comparing the Macedonian judicial services’ procedures to the Nuremberg processes is inappropriate, according to the German Embassy in Skopje. As the Embassy added on Friday, the comparison minimises the acts of the Nazi criminals. “The responsible persons in North Macedonia should contribute to overcoming the division of society and lead constructive dialogue on the country’s future in the direction of ...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) has processed 96% of the 606,555 audio files at its disposal, according to the Report on work for the period from September 2018 to March 2019. So far, 453,281 private conversations have been separated. When it comes to the texts the SPO has, 56% of them have been analysed. In the report, it is once ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

On Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigative procedure against six persons over the bus crash near Laskarci. Seven people were detained. An investigation was launched into six of them, while a precaution measure was requested for the seventh person. Prosecutor Saso Rajcev stated at a press-conference that the driver, who was among the suspects, had been driving over the ...

The trial over the Target-Fortress case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, continued on Thursday.  The key witness, Zvonko Kostovski, stated that the wire-tapping devices of the Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration (UBK) were connected to a flat in the yellow building next to Skopje’s Railway Station. According to him, there was constant communication between the computer in the flat in ...

On Thursday, Lithuania’s Parliament, with 108 votes in favour and zero against, ratified Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol. PS Talat Xhaferi attended the plenary session. In his address, he expressed gratitude for the ratification. Within the frameworks of his visit to Vilnius, he held a meeting with Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius, who reiterated his country’s strong support for Macedonia’s road to ...

On Thursday, the Deputy PM for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani, paid a visit to the State Election Commission (SEC). As he and SEC President Oliver Derkoski assessed, the presidential elections should be fair and democratic, without even the smallest of remarks. They added that the election process should be a competition in which the best candidate would win, something which ...

Four Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration (UBK) employees, including Toni Jakimovski, former Head of the UBK’s First Administration, were arrested on Thursday by police in an investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime and Corruption and Interior Ministry’s Organised Crime Department. Jakimovski, who was also Head of former UBK Director Saso Mijalkov’s Cabinet, was arrested after the end of the ...