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A joint statement has been issued on the U.S.-North Macedonia Strategic Dialogue. “On June 2, 2022, the Governments of the United States and North Macedonia held a Strategic Dialogue in Washington, D.C., focused on deepening the bilateral partnership.  North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister, Bujar Osmani, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Dr. Karen Donfried, led the ...

“There are no conditions for a visit of mine to France,” Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said on Wednesday, answering a question about the report from BGNES the previous day. As he explained, there are no conditions because there is no progress as far as the open issues between Skopje and Sofia are concerned. The Bulgarian President once again said he ...

President Stevo Pendarovski welcomes the French EU Presidency’s proactive approach, the President’s Cabinet said on Wednesday, answering a question whether a new French proposal was on the table to solve the Skopje-Sofia dispute. As it was added, Pendarovski hopes it could contribute to a solution being found that would help North Macedonia start more swiftly membership negotiations with the EU. ...

The State Commission for Prevention and Corruption will request for the Prosecutor’s Office to criminally prosecute former Government Secretaries General Dragi Raskovski and Muhamed Zekiri for abuse of official position. As it was said on Monday, it has formed a case upon an unknown initiative. As the Commission found, from 2017 to 2021, the Secretariat hired a big number of ...

The Supreme Court has confirmed the verdicts in which former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski were sentenced to seven and nine years in prison, respectively, in the Extortion case. On Wednesday, the requests for extraordinary re-examination of the effective verdict were rejected. The defendants said there had been substantial violations of the procedure, which was why the case ...

The no-confidence motion against Talat Xhaferi has reached the Speaker’s cabinet. He may start to prepare the response in writing, for which he has 15 days. Regardless of whether he draws up an answer, after half a month, the motion should be part of the first session of Parliament. However, it is not specified in the Rules of Procedure how ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is starting a final attempt to lift the Bulgarian veto for Skopje. BGNES has reported that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and the country’s PM, Kiril Petkov, will head to Paris in the coming days for a meeting with the French President, where the plan to solve the Skopje dispute will be presented. Bulgarian media have said ...

Prosecutor Ljubomir Lape, in the closing arguments over the Thaler 2 case on Tuesday, said former PM Nikola Gruevski and ex-Government Secretary General Kiril Bozinovski should be found guilty. He also sought taking away of VMRO-DPMNE’s seat. Lape’s stand is that the two took activities for the party to get a new party seat unlawfully. In addition, Lape pointed out ...