Stoltenberg says Invitation to NATO membership for Skopjes government once the Treaty with Greece is fulfilled. NATO leaders have formally invited Macedonia to start membership talks with the alliance, while cautioning that it can't be completed until the name issue is resolved. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, if the agreement with Greece will be fullfilled, Skopje will be asked to begin accession negotiations with NATO. Stoltenberg stated at Tuesday’s conference ahead of the two-day Summit in Brussels, Mace…
Exactly 1,041,583 passengers were handled at the two airports in Macedonia in the first months of 2018. A annual increase of 21% was registered compared to the first half of last year, TAV Macedonia - the company operating the airports in Skopje and Ohrid - said in a press release. The number of flights at the two Macedonian airports from January until June marked an annual rise of 16%, it added. " While airports across Europe have an average passenger traffic increase of 6,1% in 2018, TAV continues to register high double di…
A framework programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Macedonia 2018-2020 and the first project within the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness Programme will be signed in the Government on Wednesday. The Readiness Programme aims to build capacity in developing countries to access GCF funding to implement country-led national climate adaptation and mitigation plans. The overall aim is for countries to be equipped to fulfill their commitments under the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emis…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expects that following the agreement with Greece, Macedonia will be asked to begin accession negotiations with NATO. Stoltenberg stated at today’s pre-conference, Macedonia will become a NATO member using the new name Republic of Northern Macedonia. “I expect that after the historic agreement reached last month in the name dispute, we will invite Skopje to commence membership negotiations. When the agreement is finalized and implemented, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will be invi…
It is quite certain that on 11th of July, Macedonia will receive an invitation for accession talks for the NATO Summit, which is expected to be relatively short – three to six months – a procedure which is identical to the last countries which became NATO members, i.e. Montenegro, Albania and Croatia, and then the Accession Protocol has to be signed, after which its ratification will begin with all member states, and then, we will be “de facto” with NATO, because then we will participate in a big part of the NATO procedures. It remains on…
Hundreds gathered at a protest against the name agreement in the Greek town of Vergina on Monday, MIA reports from Athens. Protesters, including church officials and the governor of Central Macedonia region Apostolos Tzitzikostas, waved Greek flags and shouted "Macedonia is Greek". "If our neighbors are Macedonians, then what are we?" asked Metropolitan Panteleimon in his address before the crowd, saying the name agreement goes against the interest of the Greek people.
This year Macedonia will be partner country of the 56th international Fair of Agriculture and Food – Agra, which is traditionally held August 25-30 in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia. On this occasion Agriculture Minister Ljupco Nikolovski will announce the details at Tuesday’s press briefing, which will also be attended by Slovenian Ambassador Milan Jazbec, project manager at Pomurski Sejem Boris Nikolas Erjavec and executive director at Pomurski Sejem Mateja Jaklic. Slovenian Deputy PM and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food D…
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