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Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani paid an official visit to Serbia on Thursday. Osmani was welcomed in Belgrade by Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, to whom he thanked for the donation of COVID-19 vaccines from the producer Pfizer to Macedonia. At the meeting, the interlocutors also discussed the bilateral relations between Macedonia and Serbia, and possibilities for their improvement. Osmani also ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski and EU Ambassador to Macedonia David Geer attended the opening of the new Europe House in Kriva Palanka, the second one of this type after the one in Skopje. “After the Europe House in Skopje, we are very glad to open the second one here, in Kriva Palanka. Here, we will be able to listen ...

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Rapporteur for Macedonia Ilhan Kyuchyuk started his official visit to Macedonia on Wednesday. Kyuchyuk was welcomed by Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani, with whom he held the first meeting and press conference of the day. At the meeting, Osmani and Kyuchyuk discussed the processes for accession of Macedonia in the EU and the ...

Governmental Spokesperson Dusko Arsovski said at a press conference that the Action plan for negotiations with Bulgaria over bilateral disputes is finalised and that the state can start the implementation of some of the points contained in it. “The government remains strongly motivated to reach mutually acceptable solutions via dialogue for some of the disputes with Bulgaria. Expert teams from ...

Bulgarian Deputy PM and Foreign Affairs Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said in an interview for the Bulgarian national Television (BNT) that Bulgaria will donate COVID-19 vaccines to Macedonia very soon. “We are a little late with this cooperation due to the rules of procedure of the COVAX mechanism. The regular supply of vaccines by the EU is about to start, and ...

Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska attended on Wednesday the meeting of Defence Ministers of the NATO member-states, which was held online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the meeting, Sekerinska presented the positions of Macedonia concerning the NATO Initiative 2030 for political and military strengthening of the alliance, and welcomed and supported the proposals of NATO Sec Gen Jens Stoltenberg ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani said at a press conference that emotions should be set aside in the negotiations with Bulgaria over the bilateral disputes, and that both sides should approach the matter with more rationality. “The feeling is that in the first phase of the bilateral dialogue between Skopje and Sofia emotions prevailed, which is why we believe we ...

Bulgarian Deputy PM and Foreign Affairs Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said in an interview for web portal Zoom.mk that Bulgaria does not dispute the Macedonian identity. “The very fact that Bulgaria was the first to recognise North Macedonia as an independent state proves that we do not dispute the identity, but still, someone tends to present a different image before the ...

VMRO-DPMNE filed an amendment to the draft-law on inclusion of ethnicity in citizens’ IDs, which demands the name of the country to remain “Republic of Macedonia”. As VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said, the Prespa Agreement clearly states that the new name of the country is to be introduced in personal identification documents 5 years after the Agreement was signed. “We ...

The Health Ministry informs that the vaccination against COVID-19 will officially start on Wednesday at the modular hospital in the yard in front of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Skopje. The vaccination on Wednesday will start at 10:00 a.m. and will proceed in the following days in two shifts between 08:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m., at 6 vaccination points ...