On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Skopje, where he was welcomed by PM Dimitar Kovacevski. “A warm welcome to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. At the meeting this afternoon, we once again highlighted our excellent relations and discussed the support provided by the US in continuity on our path to full- fledged EU membership and ...

VoA Macedonian, citing VoA’s State Department correspondent, quoted a senior Department official as saying that they didn’t expect Secretary Antony Blinken to have any meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the OSCE Ministerial Council in North Macedonia. “We don’t expect a meeting,” the official confirmed, answering a question about the possibility of any Blinken-Lavrov meeting. Asked about the ...

The Foreign Ministers of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, Margus Tsahkna, Gabrielius Landsbergis, and Krisjanis Karins, respectively, have decided to boycott the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje due to the presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “For the past two years we have witnessed how one OSCE participating State has actively and brutally tried to annihilate another. Let us be ...

On Tuesday, from 9 am to 10 am, the Interior Ministry closed Ilinden Boulevard and surrounding streets for traffic, which resulted in long lines of vehicles on streets and boulevards open for traffic. The Ministry’s activities were part of the preparatory activities for the special traffic regime for the OSCE Ministerial Council taking place from 29 November to 1 December. ...

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov announced on Monday that he will attend the OSCE ministerial Summit in Skopje if Bulgaria opens its airspace so that he can arrive and land in Skopje. “We have been invited by North Macedonia to attend the Ministerial Council, and it seems that Bulgaria had promised them that they will open their airspace for us. If ...

OSCE Chairperson Bujar Osmani announced on Monday that at a meeting including ambassadors of 57 OSCE member-states in Vienna, it has been officially decided that Malta will take over the OSCE presidency starting from 1 January 2024. “We bring good news; an agreement has been reached. The decision for the Maltese presidency over OSCE will be officially confirmed at the ...

FM Bujar Osmani said at a press conference that at the moment there is no room of changes to the model for so-called Przino government for the upcoming parliamentary election in 2024. This follows the calls of VMRO-DPMNE for complete elimination of the Przino government model. “We should focus more on the party leader’s meeting that is to take place ...

Next month, PM and SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski will summon a meeting with parties represented in Parliament for the date of the parliamentary and presidential elections to be set. As he said on Thursday, prior to the end of the current composition of Parliament’s term, MPs will need to vote through Electoral Code changes, including the OSCE/ODIHR remarks. The PM’s ...

In an interview with Kanal 5, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski says the figures he has that are part of the party’s rating-measuring activities clearly show that his party can hope to win 61 MP seats. “If one employs a wrong policy, support won in elections falls. That’s the case with SDSM. People are seeing it hasn’t delivered. SDSM is under ...

In an interview with MIA on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described North Macedonia as a highly-valued Ally. “North Macedonia contributes to our shared security and NATO membership is good for North Macedonia, but it’s also good for NATO and I’m impressed by the progress I’ve seen. I’ve also seen that NATO membership has enabled more investments, more foreign ...