HeadLine
admin1 – October 10, 2006 – 1:55pm

•Macedonia marks 65th anniversary of start of antifascist resistance.

•President Branko Crvenkovski decides to recall Macedonian Ambassador to United States Ljupco Jordanovski.

•Assembly discusses amendments to decision on participation of Macedonian Army forces in Altea peace mission in Bosnia.

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PARLIAMENT OBSERVING 11 OCTOBER
admin1 – October 10, 2006 – 11:30am
MKflag

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 9, 2006 – 2:33pm

•SDSM carries no-confidence motion against current party leader Vlado Buckovski at party convention on 7 October.

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BUCKOVSKI LOSES CONFIDENCE VOTE, SEKERINSKA ANNOUNCES CANDIDATURE FOR LEADER
admin1 – October 9, 2006 – 2:13pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 6, 2006 – 3:17pm
  • INTERIOR MINISTRY OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO MICROSOFT CASE

  • PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI REJECTS INTERIOR MINISTRY ACCUSATIONS

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JOHNSON CONTROLS STARTS BUILDING FACTORY IN BUNARDZIK
admin1 – October 6, 2006 – 2:09pm
Johnson Controls

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 5, 2006 – 3:13pm

•Johnson Controls lays cornerstone of factory in Bunardzik Free Economic Zone.  

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BDI DOES NOT ACCEPT LAW FOR POLICE WITHOUT OBSERVATION OF BADINTER PRINCIPLE
admin1 – October 5, 2006 – 2:32pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 4, 2006 – 1:07pm

•Assembly continues debate on law for police despite obstructions by BDI and PPD.

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EBRD OFFICIALLY ACQUIRES 25% OF TTK BANK
admin1 – October 4, 2006 – 12:31pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 3, 2006 – 12:54pm

•UN Representative for Kosovo Joachim Ruecker meets with Macedonian President Crvenkovski, PM Gruevski, and Foreign Minister Milososki in Skopje.

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BDI OCCUPIES PLATFORM, ASSEMBLY BLOCKED
admin1 – October 3, 2006 – 11:42am
Macedonian Assembly

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.

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NEW MACEDONIAN-POLISH FACTORY PUT TO WORK
admin1 – October 2, 2006 – 2:34pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – October 2, 2006 – 12:41pm
  • SDSM TO VOTE FOR LAW FOR POLICE

  • GRUEVSKI TO REORGANIZE PARTY

  • US SENATORS WANT MACEDONIA IN NATO

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 29, 2006 – 2:11pm

•Committee for Relations with NATO holds first session, which is chaired by Prime Minister Gruevski.

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REFORMS, THEN DATE FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH EU
admin1 – September 29, 2006 – 2:00pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 28, 2006 – 12:47pm

•Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska addresses North-South European economic forum in Oslo.

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INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INCREASES 11.3% IN AUGUST
admin1 – September 28, 2006 – 11:52am
State Statistical Office

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 27, 2006 – 1:28pm

•Assembly debates structure of Committee for Relations among Communities.

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KAZAKHSTAN POTENTIALLY GREAT POWER PARTNER OF MACEDONIA
admin1 – September 27, 2006 – 1:16pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 26, 2006 – 1:44pm

•Law for police enters assembly procedure.

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MACEDONIA SIGNS READMISSION AGREEMENT WITH NORWAY
admin1 – September 26, 2006 – 12:43pm
Macedonia signs readmission agreement with Norway

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 25, 2006 – 12:03pm
  • ENTRY IN NATO, PRIORITY OF NEW GOVERNMENT

  • PARLIAMENTARIANS TO DEBATE LAW FOR POLICE

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MACEDONIA TO ORGANIZE A CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN OHRID
admin1 – September 23, 2006 – 4:30pm

“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.

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PM Gruevski congratulates the Islamic world on eve of Ramadan
admin1 – September 23, 2006 – 2:42pm

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.

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 22, 2006 – 1:28pm

•President Crvenkovski, FM Milososki met with UN mediator in name dispute talks Matthew Nimetz in New York. Macedonian positions on name reaffirmed.

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MACEDONIAN POSITIONS ON NAME REAFFIRMED
admin1 – September 21, 2006 – 9:09am
UN

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. 

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HeadLine
admin1 – September 21, 2006 – 8:32am

•Sulejman Rexhepi was elected new head of the Islamic Religious Community of Macedonia

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VISITS OF MACEDONIA STORY WEB SITE SET YAHOO RECORD
admin1 – September 20, 2006 – 10:57am

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.

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PM GRUEVSKI MEETS KOSOVO PM CEKU
admin1 – September 19, 2006 – 4:05pm

"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.

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