NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, after the meeting with PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Brussels, welcomed North Macedonia’s efforts to promote security, stability and progress in the region. “This includes your contributions to NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo,” he stated. At the meeting, they talked about the security of the Western Balkans as one of the main priorities of NATO and ...
Read More »Reactions to Pendarovski’s Meeting with OMO Ilinden – PIRIN Continue
President Stevo Pendarovski’s meeting with representatives of associations of ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria has continued to spark reactions in Sofia. In response to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s description of Kiril Petkov’s visit to Skopje as rash, Bulgaria’s PM said the visit had been in fact belated. However, he added that foreign policy was made in the Government. Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo ...
Read More »Security Council Meeting: Security Situation Stable, Pendarovski Says
The security situation in the country is stable, while there aren’t for now indications that would indicate that there could be endangerment of North Macedonia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. That was the message sent by President Stevo Pendarovski after Tuesday’s session of the Security Council. Regarding the developments in relation to Ukraine, the President’s stand is that one shouldn’t believe ...
Read More »New Dynamism in Talks with Sofia, Says Kovacevski
According to PM Dimitar Kovacevski, all communication between the Foreign Ministries of North Macedonia and Bulgaria are at a stage of working documents. However, as he said on Monday, if a mutually acceptable solution is found, it will be communicated according to the procedures, laws, and Constitution. Kovacevski stated that new dynamism had been introduced into the talks with Sofia, ...
Read More »Petkov: History can’t be Forgotten and Ignored
North Macedonia’s approximation towards EU membership doesn’t start with membership, but rather a long negotiating period is ahead when the most sensitive issues can be being overcome, according to Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov. He says for Bulgarian radio station Darik that history cannot be forgotten and ignored. However, Petkov adds that, at the same time, a wrong approach cannot be ...
Read More »President Pendarovski to Pay Official Visit to Bulgaria in One Month
President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski informed that in about a month he will pay an official visit to Bulgaria and meet his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev. “I am motivated by the fresh restart of the dialogue between official Skopje and Sofia, and very soon I would like to make a personal contribution to it. Hence, in about a month ...
Read More »COVID-19 Isolation Period Shortened to 7 Days
The Government of North Macedonia reached a decision at a session held on Wednesday afternoon to shorten the isolation period for COVID-19-positive patients from 10 to 7 days. With the new decision, citizens that have taken a PCR test which came positive for COVID-19, will have to remain in isolation for 7 days counting from the day the test results ...
Read More »Kovacevski, Petkov: Intergovernmental Conference with Great Success
PM of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovacevski and Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov held a mutual press conference after the first intergovernmental conference between the governments of their respective countries took place on Tuesday morning in Sofia. Both Kovacevski and Petkov came out with a mutual conclusion that the conference has been rather successful, and voiced satisfaction with the formation of the ...
Read More »Delegation of North Macedonia Headed by PM Kovacevski Arrives in Sofia
The delegation of the government of North Macedonia, headed by PM Dimitar Kovacevski, arrived on Monday afternoon in Sofia. Kovacevski and the ministers were welcomed by Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov, with an organised state welcome in presence of the Bulgarian Army and the Army Orchestra, in accordance with all protocols for visits and meeting of this kind. The two PMs ...
Read More »PM Kovacevski Speaks on Phone with EC President Von der Leyen
PM Dimitar Kovacevski spoke on the phone with President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, who congratulated him on assuming the office of PM of North Macedonia. As the Office of the PM reports, Kovacevski informed Von der Leyen that the EU integration processes are among the top priorities of the new government, and introduced her to ...
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