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Macedonia is ready for
entrance in NATO
The Government has recently passed the yearly National program for
membership in NATO for the period 2004-2005. The minister of foreign
affairs, Ilinka Mitreva, on the governmental session, has pointed out that
Macedonia is approaching to new, very important phase of the entrance into
Alliance. With this program, which is also beginning of the sixth cycle of
the entrance in NATO, Macedonia is declaring that it is prepared and able to
fulfill taken commitments. The Minister Mitreva has added that in the new
plan for membership in NATO as experiences are used previous five documents
and now the plan is upgraded with quality in the answers and the objectivity
in the predictions.
The Minister of defense, Vlado Buckovski, for this year’s National program
for membership in NATO, said that this is the best one and it is result of
the coordinative work not only of the Ministry of defense and the Ministry
of foreign affairs, but also of the entire Government. |
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Warning about the
Referendum
The American ambassador in
Macedonia, Lawrence Battler, during the daily work of ROS-ROT seminar in
Ohrid, has pointed out that Macedonia will not become a part of NATO until
2010. The reason for that is unsuccessful implementation of the Ohrid
agreement in the predicted term which is already passed. If the referendum
succeeds, the Government will spend another year for the preparation of new
law which means that the invitation for entrance in NATO in 2006 will be
already closed. So, Macedonia must wait for the next round for enlargement
in NATO in 2010. Battler has also added that everybody must be focused on
the implementation of the Ohrid agreement especially on the decentralization
and on the commitments for reform of the defense. |
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London award for Janakioski
Dimitar Janakioski is living
in London for quite some time and his occupation is photography for almost
four years. This year, in hard competition in the “London Fashion Week” he
has won the first price for the best photography, sponsored by NIKON. For
his work he has used the newest models D2J, D1J. His rewarded photography
already can be found on the web site: www.nikon.co.uk. Currently he works in
the new magazine “All Access”, which has moved its office from Paris in
London. He is proud that he was the only Macedonian in this competition.
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Holy Cross Day
In honor of the Great Christian holyday Holy Cross Day, the bishop Stefan
has blessed water and he cut the cake on the Millennium Cross in Skopje.
On that occasion, Zagorka Tnkovska was elected as godfather and she has
found the little cross from the cake. On the same day Head of the Macedonian
Orthodox Church bishop Stefan has symbolically turned the lights of the
first experimental windmill which began operating on the peak of the
mountain Vodno near the Millennium Cross.
“Let God grant it many new power sources in the mountain Vodno and in all
our places” - said the Head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
He also has acclaimed the idea enthusiastically about the four windmills
that are going to be put on that place which will provide electricity to the
Millennium Cross and to the all biggest objects in Vodno.
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Decrease of the
industrial production
According to the data of the
official statistic, the production in August this year shows decreasing of
13 percents in spite of average production in 2003. The Government is
explaining these data with excuse that in August are used yearly summers and
in that period the production is always decreasing, which is also case with
the world economy. The economical analytics, but also some governmental
representatives have agreed that there is no place for optimism and with the
August decrease all hopes are gone about the eventual increase of the gross
home made products. |
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International literature
collaboration
The respectable Serbian
magazine of literature, art and culture “Bagdala” from Krusevas, in the
newest edition, nimber 461 for July-September has published several pages
for the Modern Macedonian literature. In the rubric “Literature
collaboration”(“Knizevna sorabotka”) dedicated to the collaborators of the
magazine “Contemporary times” (“Sovremenost”) , are represented with poetry
Svetlana Hristova - Jocik, Naumce Radicevski and with prose Vasil
Tocinovski, Ranko Mladenovski and Metodi Manev.
Metodi Manev is author of the selected creation of the representative
authors.
Daniela Kostadinovik has made the translations from Macedonian to Serbian
language. This new presentation of the Macedonian literature in the foreign
is a result of the international reciprocal collaboration between the oldest
Macedonian literature magazine “Contemporary times” (“Sovremenost”) with
other relative magazines in the rubric “Priopstuvanje”. Macedonian magazine
has represented the collaborators of the “Bagdala” in the second edition for
this year. Beside this, the “Contemporary times”(“Sovremenost”) was
represented on the pages of the magazine from Sophia “Puls” and the next
presentation is in the “Sposobost” from Ljubljana. |
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NEWS
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REFERENDUM WILL SLOW DOWN
EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION IN ANY CASE, EU, NATO AND OSCE SAY
Skopje, September 29 (MIA)
- "The referendum
on territorial organization in any case will slow down the country's
Euro-Atlantic integration," spokesmen of EU, NATO and OSCE missions to
Macedonia assessed.
According to EU spokesperson Sheena Thomson the referendum itself slows down
the Euro-Atlantic integration, even if the citizens negatively reply to the
referendum's question, because it postpones the issues for six months.
Thomson however does not consider that positive reply to the referendum's
question means citizens give up the EU.
She pointed out that the new territorial organization has been given a long
period in which frameworks the most appropriate solution was expected to
find.
OSCE spokesman Maxim Filandrov informed that on Macedonian Government demand
for monitoring referendum process, OSCE and ODIHR recommended establishment
of monitoring mission which will carry out monitoring a month before the
referendum.
MINISTER GESTAKOVSKI AT
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OSLO
Skopje, September 29 (MIA)
- Aleksandar
Gestakovski, Macedonian Minister of Local Self-Government, will participate
at a two-day International Conference September 30 to October 1 in Oslo upon
an invitation of Erna Solberg, Minister of Local Government and Regional
Development of Norway.
Topic of the conference is "Strengthening local democracy and democratic
participation in a changing world."
Conference is organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, the
Norwegian National Association of Local and Regional Authorities and the
Council of Europe.
On the occasion of the Norwegian chairmanship of the Council of Europe's
Committee of Ministers in 2004 (Nov-Dec), the Ministry of Local Government
and Regional Development will host an International Conference.
Norway wishes to strengthen the role of the Council of Europe in conflict
prevention, in particular through measures to promote good governance and
provide a framework that allows greater understanding across cultures and
religions.
Minister Gestakovski will deliver an address and will refer to the concrete
steps that the Republic of Macedonia is making on this plan with an accent
to power decentralisation process and its implementation.
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