86,293 ordinary shares of Makedonski telekomunikacii were traded today by the sales principle of piece by piece at a starting price of 390 denars per share. Thus a total of 404,000 shares of Telecom were sold piece by piece over the past three days, which means that about 0.4 percent of the capital went to the hands of small shareholders.
Irish experts are going to teach the Government how to attract foreign investments through the project "Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Economy for Improving Macedonia's Investment Climate" funded by the European Union and carried out by the consulting house TDI Group.
The first package of state-owned shares in Makedonski telekomunikacii was sold today on the Macedonian Stock Exchange at a price of 389 denars per share. The package of 9,488,040 shares was sold off without bidding considering that there was only one offer at the public auction.
The Ministry of Economy announced the international tender for construction of 19 small hydroelectric power stations with overall capacity of 20 megawatts. All the locations are on rivers in the western part of Macedonia.
Macedonia and the Benelux states signed a Readmission Agreement in The Hague today. Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva signed this agreement on behalf of Macedonia, while Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot and the Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors in The Hague signed the agreement in the name of Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg).
The biggest Macedonian political parties SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE determined late last night their candidate lists for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, which will be held on 5 July.
The parliamentary elections in Macedonia will be followed by at least 3,800 domestic and foreign monitors reports. The "Most" Civic Association announced that they would participate with 3,500 monitors, while OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) would engage 250 monitors.
The Macedonian Association for Digital Entertainment (MADE) started the preparations for the realization of the new project - Digital Media Film City.
"The concept of the project is converging the entire industry for digital entertainment in one place. There will be a number of studios in a single working facility, a wide spectrum of production, postproduction and other services to home and foreign clients," Romela Popovik-Trajkova, member of MADE, explained.
Italy will continue to support Macedonia's aspirations for membership in EU and NATO. Rome is particularly glad that Macedonia received the status candidate for EU membership, and it is committed to continuation of the process for expansion of the EU, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski stressed after the meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.
The Macedonian Parliament decided at yesterday's session that the Republic of Macedonia should participate in the European Union's peace operation EUFOR, Altea, in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Foreign Minister Mitreva attends opening of Center for European Prospects in Ljubljana.
• President Branko Crvenkovski meets with new Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome.
• Crvenkovski congratulates Montenegro's independence: "I have no doubts that Montenegro's independence will provide a positive contribution to regional stability".
• Macedonian and Croatian PMs support decision of Montenegrin citizens.
Macedonia refuted the news that it represents a nuclear threat to Greece, as Athens weekly "Pondiki" claimed. Radioactive material is not used in Macedonia for the production of chemical and medical products seeing as the country does not have a nuclear reactor, the Macedonian Office for Radiation Safety stated in its statement.
The National Bank of Macedonia gave back the license for performing foreign exchange operations to Makedonska banka. According to the National Bank, the bank now meets all the legal requirements for payment and loan operations with foreign institutions.
