GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE CAMPAIGNS FOR 'PROGRAM FOR REVIVAL'
admin1 – December 12, 2007 – 12:25pm

The Government is planing media campaigns for all crucial initiatives from the program for revival with the aim of educating the public. Each one of these campaigns will cost approximately 400,000 euros. The Government should not impose its ideas on citizens by force, sociologist Petar Atanasov from the Institute for Sociological, Political, and Legal Research stated. Government Spokesman Ivica Bocevski said that, with these campaigns, the Government wants to inform the public about the possibilities.

 
PRIME MINISTER PROPOSES DIRECT TALKS WITH GREECE
admin1 – December 11, 2007 – 2:28pm

No matter how big the problems are, they can be resolved if Macedonia and Greece sit and talk together, instead of communicating via the media and the EU and NATO institutions, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said in the eve of the next round of talks on the name in January next year.

 
STATEMENT BY HIGH COMMISSIONER LOUISE ARBOUR ON THE OCCASION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
admin1 – December 10, 2007 – 9:29am
UN logo

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, issued the following statement to mark Human Rights Day which is commemorated on 10 December.

As we jointly celebrate today not only Human Rights Day but also launch the year-long campaign leading to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we have cause to celebrate the accomplishments made, since 1948, on the road to ensuring fundamental freedoms for each one of us.

 
MACEDONIA ASKS SERBIA FOR EXPLANATION
admin1 – December 7, 2007 – 12:12pm

Macedonia asked Serbia for an explanation for Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic's shameful use of the abbreviation FYROM. But the Macedonian Government does not intend to make a big commotion over this issue because it understands Serbia's nervousness regarding the status of Kosovo.

 
INTERIOR MINISTRY REFUTES SERBIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DJELIC
admin1 – December 6, 2007 – 4:32pm

The Macedonian Interior Ministry issued a sharp denial yesterday to Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic's statement in Brussels that Belgrade assisted the Macedonian police in their operation in the Tetovo village of Brodec.

 
MILOSOSKI, MACEDONIA WANTS TO HOST MACEDONIA-GREECE NAME MEETING
admin1 – December 5, 2007 – 2:50pm

The Republic of Macedonia will gladly host mediator Matthew Nimetz and his two colleagues - the special representatives of Macedonia and Greece in the name dispute talks - in January next year, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki told MIA regarding Mr. Nimetz's previous statement that he intended to hold another meeting with the Macedonian and Greek negotiators, Nikola Dimitrov and Adamantios Vassilakis, in Macedonia after the Christmas holidays.

 
MACEDONIA WILL NOT BACK DOWN FROM CONSTITUTIONAL NAME
admin1 – December 4, 2007 – 1:23pm

Macedonian state leadership meets Nimetz

Macedonia accepts the proposal for stepping up of the talks on the name, but it will not back down from the constitutional name and it does not agree with the idea of this issue being resolved by the NATO Summit next year. Dnevnik has learned unofficially that this is the message that the Macedonian state leadership conveyed to U.N. mediator Mathew Nimetz yesterday.

 
LAWS ON INTER-ETHNIC COMMITTEE AND PUBLIC PROSECUTORS' COUNCIL ADOPTED
admin1 – December 3, 2007 – 1:55pm

Macedonian Parliament

The Parliament passed at short notice today the laws on the committee on relations among ethnic communities and the council of public prosecutors. These laws are part of the agreement about which a consensus had been reached among the leaders of the four major political parties on Friday.

 
STATE LEADERSHIP CONFIRMS CONSENSUS ON NAME PRIOR TO UN MEDIATOR NIMETZ’S VISIT TO SKOPJE
admin1 – December 3, 2007 – 1:43pm

There are no changes with regards to Macedonia’s position on the name issue. This position was confirmed at the meeting of the state leadership this weekend and it will be conveyed to U.N. mediator Mathew Nimetz during his visit to Skopje, the media report.

 
HeadLine
admin1 – November 30, 2007 – 1:32pm

•Skopje Basic Court 1 sentences Stanislava Cocorovska-Poletan and truck driver Alija Azirovic to 14.5 years imprisonment for smuggling of half ton cocaine valued 100 million euros.

 
PM GRUEVSKI, JOHNSON MATTHEY TO INVEST 100 MN POUNDS
admin1 – November 29, 2007 – 4:14pm

The Board of Directors of Johnson Matthey decided to invest in the technological and development zone Bunardzik in Macedonia, said Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today.

 
GRUEVSKI: CEI COUNTRIES SUPPORT MACEDONIA AS REGARDS EU AND NATO
admin1 – November 28, 2007 – 3:39pm

PM Gruevski in Sofia

The Summit of the Central-European Initiative (CEI) is a good opportunity to exchange views and initiatives, as well as hold bilateral meetings with the participants in this gathering, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said in his assessment of the meeting of the prime ministers of the CEI countries, which ended in Sofia today.

 
Workshop: Plone My Web
admin1 – November 28, 2007 – 10:10am
Plone My Web
 
 
JOSE LELO: MACEDONIA MADE HUGE PROGRESS
admin1 – November 27, 2007 – 3:25pm

Macedonia is making huge progress with the aim of fulfilling its ambition of becoming a member of NATO, NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Jose Lelo stressed in his address in the Macedonian Parliament, which he started by greeting the parliamentarians in Macedonian.

Lelo, who is a firm supporter of the open-door policy for membership in NATO, stressed that this is a very important moment for Macedonia and the region. Within this context, he stressed the issue of Kosovo and the dilemma of what will happen in this region after 10 December if this province declares independence. He believes that Macedonia could play a very important role with regards to this.

 
GRUEVSKI: ONLY VETO BY GREECE CAN OBSTRUCT OUR ACCESSION TO NATO
admin1 – November 26, 2007 – 2:12pm

PM Nikola Gruevski

Macedonia will complete the priorities and all other obligations, just like it completed a huge part of the tasks so far, with the aim of receiving an invitation for membership in NATO at the Summit in Bucharest in April next year, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said on Saturday. Gruevski stressed a possible veto by Greece as the only serious factor that could obstruct Macedonia's accession to NATO.

 
KOSOVO - MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION BETWEEN PRESIDENTS CRVENKOVSKI AND TADIC
admin1 – November 23, 2007 – 2:32pm

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski met with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade yesterday. Crvenkovski's visit to Serbia is part of his activities for holding meetings with the presidents of the countries in this region.

 
CEFTA STARTING NEW AGE OF REGIONAL COOPERATION
admin1 – November 22, 2007 – 3:03pm

CEFTA

 The summit of the CEFTA member states that took place in Skopje on Wednesday marked the end of Macedonia's presidency over the organization, which moves to Moldavia next year.

"As of today CEFTA 2006 will be applied by all the signatory countries, whereby a new age of implementing regional cooperation begins," said Deputy Prime Minister Zoran Stavreski, after the CEFTA member states adopted a joint declaration for further implementation of the agreement.

 
PARTY LEADERS HOLD SEPARATE MEETINGS WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR MILOVANOVIC
admin1 – November 21, 2007 – 3:35pm

The leaders of the big political parties in the country held separate meetings with U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Gillian Milovanovic. The aim of these meetings was to assess Macedonia's candidature for membership in NATO in light of the internal political confrontations and tensions in the country.

 
CONSENSUS ON NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EU INTEGRATION
admin1 – November 20, 2007 – 1:27pm

Macedonian Parliament

The Government and the opposition expressed support in the Assembly yesterday for the proposal for formation of a national council for EU integration. Opposition party SDSM insists that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski participate in this special assembly body, which will be led by the opposition and most probably chaired by SDSM leader Radmila Sekerinska.

 
MACEDONIA EXPECTS DIGNIFIED AND JUST RESOLUTION
admin1 – November 19, 2007 – 1:06pm

UN mediator in the name dispute Mathew Nimetz will come to Skopje in two weeks to hear the Macedonian authorities' alternative resolution for those parts of his proposal that were unacceptable to Macedonia, diplomatic sources told Vecer.

 
FIELD IS BEING PREPARED FOR NEW GOVERNMENT COALITION
admin1 – November 16, 2007 – 3:39pm

Party sources from both the Government and the opposition assert that PDSH is helping Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski exclude NSDP from the government coalition and it is sending signals to LDP and the independent parliamentarians for a possible new parliamentary majority.

 
NICHOLAS BURNS, NAME IS NO REASON TO DENY MACEDONIA NATO MEMBERSHIP
admin1 – November 15, 2007 – 10:29am

nicholas burns
 

Macedonia's name cannot be a reason for denying the country a NATO membership invitation, said U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns.

 
STATE DEPARTMENT: OPERATION IN BRODEC WAS SUCCESSFUL
admin1 – November 14, 2007 – 2:45pm

The Macedonian police's operation in the Tetovo village of Brodec was successful, U.S. State Department Spokesman Tom Casey said at the regular press briefing in Washington.
"This was a successful and legitimate operation carried out by multiethnic police forces against a group that included a few criminals against whom arrest warrants had been issued. Some of them were escapees from a prison in Kosovo," Casey said.

 
REFET ELMAZI IS TEST FOR RULING COALITION
admin1 – November 13, 2007 – 12:48pm

Macedonian Assembly

The Assembly started the debate on the interpellation of Deputy Interior Minister Refet Elmazi yesterday. PDSH parliamentarian Ruzhdi Matoshi assessed that the Government could fall, following ruling coalition partner NSDP's statement that it would vote in support of this interpellation motion.

 
LUSTRATION BILL TO BE UNBLOCKED
admin1 – November 12, 2007 – 3:26pm

The lustration will pertain to the period starting from 2 August year 1944 and ending with the day the lustration law is ratified. Most probably this will be the final proposal of Liberal Party leader and parliamentarian Stojan Andov, who proposed the text of the lustration bill.

 
INQUIRY COMMITTEE ADOPTS REPORT ON INCIDENTS IN ASSEMBLY
admin1 – November 9, 2007 – 1:09pm

The parliamentary Inquiry Committee tasked to investigate the events in the Parliament on 25 September adopted the final report at its session yesterday.

 
AMBASSADOR NULAND: MACEDONIA HAS MADE EXCELLENT PROGRESS
admin1 – November 8, 2007 – 2:59pm
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland

Macedonia should continue with the reforms so that it can receive an invitation for membership in NATO in April year 2008, for which it has clear support from the United States, US Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland said in Skopje today. Nuland appealed to all political leaders in the country to resolve the remaining open issues, MIA and Makfax report.

 
INTERIOR MINISTRY LAUNCHES OPERATION FOR ARREST OF JAKUPI AND SHITI
admin1 – November 7, 2007 – 11:44am

The Macedonian police launched an operation at 05:00 this morning aimed at eradicating the criminal groups in the region of the Sar Mountain villages of Brodec, Vejce, and Vesala, the Interior Ministry reported.

 
EU COMMISSIONER REHN: MACEDONIA MADE PROGRESS
admin1 – November 6, 2007 – 3:12pm

EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn
 

Macedonia made progress this year, especially in the fight against corruption. But the political conflicts are slowing down the country's progress towards the European Union, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn said at today's press conference on the report of the European Commission.

 
PRIME MINISTER GRUEVSKI: WE WILL NOT GIVE UP NAME, NOT EVEN FOR NATO!
admin1 – November 5, 2007 – 2:07pm

PM Nikola Gruevski

Change of Macedonia's constitutional name at the insistence of Greece is too high a price for our big priority, membership in NATO. This is absolutely unacceptable for us, even at the cost of NATO, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski stressed in the interview for state news agency MIA.