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admin1 – November 27, 2006 – 4:24pm

•Prime Minister Gruevski meets with mayors in headquarters of Union of Local Self-government Units.

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NATO TO SEND ENCOURAGING MESSAGE TO MACEDONIA FROM RIGA
admin1 – November 27, 2006 – 4:02pm

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Photo by NATO.NATO will send an encouraging message from Riga to the members of the Adriatic Group: Macedonia, Croatia, and Albania. This is the message that NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer sent from Brussels yesterday.

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admin1 – November 24, 2006 – 3:15pm

•Prime Minister Gruevski participates in Central European Initiative Summit in Tirana.

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BORDER DEMARCATION IN PACKAGE WITH STATUS OF KOSOVO
admin1 – November 24, 2006 – 2:41pm

The issue of demarcation of the border with Macedonia should be part of the package for resolving of the status of Kosovo. This is the official position of both Macedonia and UNMIK. The Kosovo authorities, who until now insisted on the border issue being discussed after Kosovo receives independence, now agree to the demarcation being "within the context of the status".

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admin1 – November 23, 2006 – 2:00pm

•Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany arrives on one-day official visit to Macedonia.

•Macedonian Army regiment for special operations promoted.

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EU WANTS JUDICATURE WITHOUT POLITICS
admin1 – November 23, 2006 – 1:10pm

Debate The reforms in the Justice Ministry and Interior Ministry are necessary for Macedonia's integration into the European Union. But these key ministries are also the most difficult ministries to reform, Deputy Prime Minister Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska assessed at yesterday's debate in Skopje "Macedonia toward the unique space of justice, freedom, and security of the EU".

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EU PARLIAMENTARIANS TO OBSTRUCT GREEK PRESSURE ON NAME
admin1 – November 22, 2006 – 2:04pm

The EU parliamentarians will not let the dispute over the name become a condition for Macedonia's integration with the European Union, regardless of how much pressure official Athens exerts on this issue.

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admin1 – November 22, 2006 – 12:15pm

•Norwegian and Swedish Embassies, UN Office opened in Skopje.

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NO DATE FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT POLITICAL CONSENSUS
admin1 – November 21, 2006 – 10:52am
MFA Milososki-Rehn

The parliamentary elections brought Macedonia positive points. But now it is time to restart the reforms that were slowed down in year 2006 and to secure political consensus so that Macedonia can receive a date for start of the negotiations for membership, European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn stressed at yesterday's meeting with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki in Brussels.

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admin1 – November 20, 2006 – 3:29pm

•Prime Minister Gruevski pays official visit to Croatia.

•Foreign Minister Milososki meets with European Commissioner Olli Rehn in Brussels.

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ALBANIAN PARTY LEADERS FAIL TO ATTEND LEADERS MEETING IN MAVROVO
admin1 – November 20, 2006 – 3:06pm

Dialogue with monologues. This was the opposition's assessment of the two-day debate in Mavrovo, which was attended by political party leaders and international community representatives. This round table was dedicated to the implementation of the Ohrid agreement, the country's Euro-Atlantic integration, and the differences between the Government and the opposition. The leaders of the two biggest Albanian parties in Macedonia, BDI's Ali Ahmeti and PDSH's Arben Xhaferi, did not attend the meeting.

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admin1 – November 17, 2006 – 12:58pm

•President Crvenkovski awards order of 8 September to French expert Robert Badinter on occasion of 15th anniversary of Macedonian Constitution.

•Minister Council of Southeastern European energy community holds conference in Skopje.

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FARMERS EXEMPT FROM PAYING PERSONAL INCOME TAX
admin1 – November 17, 2006 – 10:31am
Macedonian farmers

The Government decided to free farmers registered to pay cadastre income tax from personal income tax until the end of 2008.

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admin1 – November 16, 2006 – 10:23am

•Public Prosecution files charges against former National Bank Governor Ljube Trpeski for embezzlement of $60 million.

•European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik arrives on two-day official visit to Skopje.

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MACEDONIA IS ESTEEMED FRIEND OF TURKEY
admin1 – November 15, 2006 – 3:37pm

Macedonia has strategic importance on the Balkans and it is an esteemed friend of Turkey, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer told Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski yesterday. The Macedonian president, who is on his first official visit to Turkey, also received strong support from Sezer for Macedonia's membership in NATO. This support will be expressed clearly at the NATO Summit in Riga toward the end of this month, "Dnevnik" reports.

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HeadLine
admin1 – November 14, 2006 – 3:01pm

•President Branko Crvenkovski on three-day official visit to Turkey at invitation of Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

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WORLD BANK PLEDGES $220-300 MN FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS
admin1 – November 14, 2006 – 2:53pm
World Bank logo

The strategy of the World Bank for Partnership with the Republic of Macedonia over the next four years stipulates that the country receives 220 to 300 million euros depending on the rate at which reforms are conducted.

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admin1 – November 13, 2006 – 3:19pm

•Skopje marks 62nd anniversary of its liberation.

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION INSISTS ON DIALOGUE
admin1 – November 13, 2006 – 2:20pm
European Commission

As Macedonia draws closer to the European Union, political consensus becomes more important, Pierre Mirel, Director in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enlargement, told Dnevnik.

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HeadLine
admin1 – November 10, 2006 – 3:37pm

•Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki meets with Slovak counterpart Jan Kubis in Slovakia.

•Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski talks about reforms in health sector in Skopje.

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YOUNG PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO EUROPE WITHOUT VISAS
admin1 – November 10, 2006 – 2:29pm

More than 500 members of five youth organizations protested on the streets of Skopje yesterday, demanding liberalization of the visa regime. They were joined by a few members of the Union of Young Forces of VMRO-DPMNE.

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admin1 – November 9, 2006 – 12:53pm

•Students and nongovernmental organizations hold peaceful protest in Skopje against Schengen visa regime.

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FUTURE OF MACEDONIA IS IN EUROPE
admin1 – November 8, 2006 – 2:44pm
Geof Hoon

Membership in the European Union and NATO will be to great advantage of both the peoples from the Western Balkans and Europe as a whole, Geoff Hoon, Minister for Europe in the British Government, stressed. Hoon is currently on a visit to Skopje, where he will meet with the Macedonian political leadership today.

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admin1 – November 8, 2006 – 12:39pm

•Macedonia and Great Britain sign agreement on avoiding double taxation.

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VIENNA ECONOMIC FORUM: SEE NEEDS INVESTMENTS
admin1 – November 7, 2006 – 3:50pm
Vienna Economic Forum - PM Gruevski

The third Vienna Economic Forum, one of whose sponsors is also Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski at the invitation of the Forum's president and founder, the special coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, Erhard Busek, is taking place on 6 and 7 November.

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HeadLine
admin1 – November 7, 2006 – 12:23pm

•Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski participates in third Economic Forum in Vienna.

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SEKERINSKA ELECTED LEADER, MINCEV SECRETARY GENERAL OF SDSM
admin1 – November 6, 2006 – 1:24pm
Radmila Sekerinska

 
Radmila Sekerinska is the new leader of SDSM, while Goran Mincev is the new secretary general of the party. This is the result of the elections at the SDSM congress held in Skopje on Saturday.

The media speculate that this represents defeat of the wing of former party Chairman Vlado Buckovski and his candidate for secretary general Ljupco Jordanovski.

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admin1 – November 3, 2006 – 12:17pm

•Foreign Minister Milososki on official visit to Bulgaria.

•Southeastern European culture ministers hold conference on regional cooperation in Ohrid.

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SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMACY NEEDS STABILITY COUPLED WITH NEW ENERGY
admin1 – November 2, 2006 – 12:43pm

Milososki -  interview MDB
Interview with Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs with Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin

"Considering all the parameters, including those that do not depend on us and our results, I believe that being given a date for start of membership negotiations in 2007 will truly be a success," Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs, says in his interview for the first issue of the new Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin, reported verbatim by micnews.com.mk.

The Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin is a publication of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promoting transparency of work.  

MDB: Minister Milososki, you have been holding this office for slightly over a month. What are your first impressions of the Ministry at Dame Gruev St. No. 6?

Milososki: I am getting the complete picture as I go.  Diplomacy implies an established system functional at all times and I am glad to conclude that this is the case with the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a Minister, I will certainly set the major guidelines in keeping with the Government's foreign policy. I also have new thoughts, initiatives and ideas and I would like that they prompt a positive reaction of motivation and creativity. In order to be successful, diplomacy needs stability coupled with new energy. I want to be the mainstay of that new energy and I have the impression that the experienced diplomats will work in the same spirit.

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admin1 – November 2, 2006 – 11:58am

•State Anticorruption Commission holds third conference in Struga.

•Assembly continues debate on wiretapping bill.

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