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“The international public has big indebtedness to Macedonia. The big injustice was done when Macedonia was under pressure to take an absurd name-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in the moments of acquiring the independence.”- this is the statement of the former Prime-minister of Poland and special informant of UN for Former Yugoslavia, Thaddeus Mazovjecki.

According to her, the legal regulations for the minorities in Serbia and Montenegro are acceptable for us, but we Macedonians are not using them.

The main theme of The Second Conference of the Community of Macedonians in Albania, held in Tirana, was how Macedonians must be politically organized for having their representatives in the authority of the Albanian society. For that purpose the representatives from the associations “Mir”, “Prespa”, “Gora”, and “Med” had formed special working group. The assignment of this group will be to propose a solution how to animate the Macedonians to take part in the political life, as soon as possible.

The monitoring committee of Council of Europe had re-warned the Government of Albania that the undertaken obligations for entering in EU must be fulfilled as soon as possible. These obligations are about providing the rights of national minorities. Strasburg is demanding finely to be created concrete statistic information about the number of minorities and about the place of their leaving. Strasburg suggests a new census in Albania.

The Macedonian prime-minister Branko Crvenkovski had participated in the ceremony in USA on which there was a promotion for entrance of the seven countries of Eastern Europe in NATO. The American president George Bush had greeted the entrance of the Eastern European countries in NATO “as full righted and equal partners”. Also he said that with their entrance in NATO, the Alliance will become much stronger. On this ceremony were present the prime-ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia; also there were present the prime-ministers of Croatia and Albania which are candidates for membership in NATO, general secretary of NATO Jaap de Hop Shefer, members of the American administration, members of the Congress and members of the Washington diplomatic core.

The last president of DS Pavle Trajanov was re-elected for leader of “Demokratski sojuz”. This was decided on the Second annual meeting which took place in Skopje on the 28 of March. On this meeting was also elected a new Central Committee with 61 members.

The time is up of the license for the flying of the company “Air Vardar”. This license was given temporary, for six months, under condition- in this period to be provided all the necessary standards. The provider of this license was the Head office for civil airway traffic. The Inspection (UCVP) has established that in this new company “Air Vardar” the necessary standards are not fulfilled.

The World Bank will conduct a new estimation for the poverty in Macedonia. According to the World Bank, the dates from the Institute for statistic are not giving real image of the current situation. Estimations of the Institute for statistic are that 30% of the population or more than 600 000 people in this country are poor. According to the Institute of statistic every man who has income lower then 130 denars for a day or has income of 3900 denars for a month is poor. 

The annual report of the European Committee for the Republic of Macedonia contains critical notes for inefficient justice system and for big corruption in our country. European Committee has notified that there is too much politicking in the Republic Court Council and that the citizens have no trust in the justice system. To over come this inefficiency, the Committee suggests: cases for the corruption with enough evidences to be solved. The State Committee against corruption have pledged for solving this cases.

The Agency for Privatization of the Republic of Macedonia wasn’t abrogated on 31of March, as it was previously announced and its work will continue until the end of this year. This was the final decision of the Government which was announced by the spoke person of the Government, Saso Colakovski.

Industrial production continues to decline. It’s reduced for 38 % in February 2004 regarding to the same month last year. In the first two months of 2004, volume of the industrial production has declined for 31,3 % regarding to the same period last year. 

The general strike was stopped after the agreement between the Trade-Union of “Makedonski Zeleznici” (Macedonian railways) and the Ministry for transport and connections. In the general strike were included all independent trade-unions of “Makedonska Zeleznici”: trade-union of railroad engineers, trade-union of traffic personnel and independent trade-union of MZ. After the negotiations of the strikers with deputy minister for transport and connection, Dejan Kosutic, they agree that the list of redundancies workers will not be announced before confirmation of the social package. The leaders of the trade-union have taken over the obligation that during the negotiations will not be blocking of the railway traffic.

With changes in the Family Code, in Macedonia for the first time will be imposed sanctions for domestic violence. These changes in the Code are in Parliamentary procedure. In this Code the novelty is a new chapter which will treat the violated relations and violence in the marriage and family. The legislative is categorically emphasized that any kind of violence in the marriage and in the family is forbidden. Also there will be changes in the part of the Code which refers to adoptions.

The annual numbers of requests which are submitted for adoptions are 235 and only 155 of them are successful. Each year the number of foster parents is increasing and currently there are approximately 560 foster families which are waiting to adopt. In the other hand, each year the number of children which are put in for adoption is reducing.