At the meeting of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski with Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE media representative, on Tuesday, according to the information from the government press service, a number of issues from the area of media were tabled. The Macedonian prime minister stressed the readiness and good will of the Government to continue contributing to the improvement of media standards, emphasizing in this regard that with the adoption of the law on media and the law on audio and audiovisual media services an important step forward was made.

In this way, the prime minister stressed, a number of areas have been closely defined and regulated. The primary task of the new laws, the prime minister explained, will be ensuring and encouraging the development of audio and audiovisual media services, as well as the development of the media sphere and the independent production, encouraging the culture of public dialogue for the purpose of protecting and encouraging creativity, freedom, as well as educational and scientific growth.