The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia is commemorating the Day of the Anti-Fascist Uprising of Macedonia, 11 October, with a 3-day event called "The National Liberation War and the Macedonian Film" in the Cinematheque of Macedonia.
SDSM leader Vlado Buckovski was not given a vote of confidence at the party convention held on 7 October. A total of 200 delegates voted confidence in Buckovski, while 339 did not. After the results of the voting were announced, Buckovski stated that a special congress would be held toward the middle of November.
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and the president of the Board of Directors of Johnson Controls, John Bart, in a ground-breaking ceremony Thursday laid the foundations of the factory to be built in the Bunardzik free economic zone. The investment totals 20 million dollars.
The Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) will not respect the law for the police if the Assembly ratifies the same without the Badinter principle. BDI representatives claim that the new law would also be ignored by the ethnic Albanians in Macedonia.
Officials of TTK Bank of Skopje and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are going to sign a deal today according to which EBRD will become a minority shareholder of TTK Bank, which came into existence with the merger of Teteks kreditna banka and Tetovska banka.
The heated atmosphere at the assembly session on the law for the police culminated with a new incident yesterday. On a number of occasions the BDI parliamentarians literally occupied the assembly speaker's platform. They banged with the Rules of Procedure and the Constitution and they seized Assembly Chairman Ljubisa Georgievski's card and bell. He requested assistance from the Assembly's security services. The BDI parliamentarians did not withdraw from the speaker's platform and they continued to bang on the bell even while Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska was explaining the law. Following the unsuccessful attempts to convince the BDI parliamentarians to return to their seats and not being able to secure elementary conditions for work, Georgievski discontinued the session in the afternoon.
A new factory for production of working clothes, Arlen Macedonia, was put to work in Delcevo. It is a Macedonian-Polish investment of 1.2 million euros with a 120-strong workforce.
The Government is prepared to show results in the reforms and then to talk about a date for negotiations for membership in the EU, Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki told the ambassadors of the EU member countries.
Industrial production in August 2006 went up by 11.3 percent from the 2003 average, 1.5 percent from July and 9 percent from August last year, the State Statistical Office said.
Companies from Kazakhstan are going to start exploring early next year where and how to invest in Macedonia, while Macedonian officials are going to attend the Power Forum in Kazakhstan in October.
Macedonia and Norway signed a readmission agreement in Skopje yesterday.
Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Norwegian Ambassador to Macedonia Carl Schiotz Wibye signed the agreement on behalf of their respective countries.
“The Republic of Macedonia has always considered its multicultural and multi-confessional character to be advantage, and not handicap” - said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia Antonio Milošoski in his address at the High Level Conference on Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace, the Foreign Ministry informed.
On the occasion of the beginning of Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski extended congratulations to the head of Islamic community in Macedonia , Reis Ul Ulema Haxhi Sulejman Efendi Rexhepi.
Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki met with Ambassador Matthew Nimetz, UN mediator in the talks with Greece over the name differences, yesterday afternoon on the second day of the 61st UN General Assembly in New York.
The visits of the national web portal for tourism, Exploring Macedonia, after being posted on the home page of Yahoo Adventures reached a total of 1,873,879, informed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the help of which the portal was established.
"Macedonia will accept any solution on Kosovo future status that would not endanger the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Macedonia," PM Nikola Gruevski said following the meeting with Kosovo interim Government PM Agim Ceku.
