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   Announcement for delay entrance in EU

The announcements from EU that Brussels will make the conditions for entrance of the new member more demanding and that Croatia can put its hopes for membership after 2011, for Turkey that will probably be in 2025. This didn’t cause any surprise to the Vice- Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska. According to her, she didn’t hear or see that kind of report from EU and gave her assessment that the way for entrance in EU will be difficult.
“It is a fact that the current situation is becoming more complicate when one country is aiming to become part of the EU which is not only widened, but it’s also more required. It is obvious that the request which was given to our country is more difficult than the requests to the countries which have entered with the last widening. Now the current request is to reform our legal system in to accordance with the regulations from 2004 which are far more complicate. There is no dilemma that it will be harder for us and the crucial question is will we miss the chances or will we do same actions.”- said Sekerinska. 		 
     
  Help from Bohemia for euro-integrations

The minister of foreign affairs, Ilinka Mitreva was in two day’s official visit in the Republic of Bohemia where she was welcomed by the Prime-minister Stanislav Gros and by her host the minister of foreign affairs, Cyril Svoboda. Also she has met the presidents of the commissions for European matters and for external policy of the Parliament of Bohemia, Pavel Svoboda and Vladimir Lastuvka. The main subjects of discussions between minister Mitreva and her hosts in Prague were the Bohemian experiences in entrance in Euro Atlantic integrations and about possibilities for more intensive economic cooperation and liberalization of the visa regime. On these meetings the minister Mitreva gave the whole picture to her hosts of the activities of Macedonia in the processes for integration with EU and NATO as well as of the entire political conditions in Macedonia and in the region. 		 
     
  New arrangement of International Monetary Fund

Macedonia is not giving up from the attention to receive a reforming arrangement from IMF. Recently, our delegation has taken part in the Annual meeting of IMF and of the World Bank where were announcements about eventual new arrangement.
“Our previous agreement with the high representatives of IMF, who we have met in Washington, was confirmed and that means that the Mission of the Fund will arrive to our country on October, 12 and then we will negotiate about the new arrangement.”-said the deputy minister of finances, Dimko Kokarovski who is in our delegation beside the minister of finances, Nikola Popovski and the Governor of the National Bank of Macedonia, Petar Gosev.
According to Kokarovski, IMF is willing to make a new arrangement with Macedonia which will probably be three year’s program for reforms and it will contain reforms of different areas. These kinds of signals were received by our delegation in USA, after the conversations with Franek Rozvadovski, chief of the mission of IMF for Macedonia but also after the conversations with the highest people of the Fund especially because of the fact that the previous stand-by arrangement was successfully finished. 		 
     
  Petroleum with the record price

The prices of the oil derivatives in our country have increased again. The price per liter petroleum is 60, 5 denars which is record price of the petroleum in the history of our country. Until now the limit price was 60 denars per liter. The decision was made on the recent session of the Regulation Committee, which confirms the highest prices, partially for each oil derivatives in accordance with the methodology. Practically, higher prices are the refineries and retail ones of the oil derivatives, in average for 9, 32 which means 5, 70%. The price per liter lead free oil has increased from 55 denars to 57, per liter lead free oil “premium”- from 55, 50 to 57,50 and the diesel- 44,50. The increasing of the prices the oil derivatives is a result of the influence of average price of the crude oil on the World Market in the past 14 days, which was 46, 086 dollars per barrel and that was higher than the average price of the crude oil for 11, 5%, 41, 344 dollars per barrel and according to which were formed the current prices of the oil derivatives.  		  
     
 

Is Macedonia in recession?

In the second quarter of this year, there is decreasing of the gross national products in Macedonia. Since decreasing of 3,2 % in the first three months of this year, the national economy has evidenced same situation in the second quarter. According to the State Institute of Statistic, the gross national products in the second quarter is lower for 0,2 % than the same period last year. In the economic theory is defined that in case when there is decreasing of the gross national products in one country, in period of two quarters on the roll, than that country is in recession. The experts and unofficial governmental sources are sheering same opinion that if there is no increasing of the gross national products by the end of this year, it will be maximum one percent. That means that our country will not reach the revised rate of growth of the gross national products, which unofficially, was 2 %. Till the end of this year if there is no economic growth, there is no chance to reach rate of 2 %, so the expectations are that it will be maximum 1 %.

 
     
  Award for the poet Matevski

The Macedonian poet Mateja Matevski has received a prestige international award for his poetic opus by the Academy “Michel Medhusedan” with head quarter in Calcutta, India. This award as well as the Academy is carrying the name of the great poet of the 19th century Michel Medhusedan who had written on the Bengali and English language. This award for distinguishes in literature, art, science and philanthropy, has tradition of 28 years.
The ceremony of this high international award-diploma, gold medal, poetic and bibliographic anthology will happen in Calcutta on November, 22, 2004. The official announcement and invitation of Mateja matevski was given by the general secretary of the Academy, Ph. D. Bidhan Data.
Mateja matevski is former winner of one Indian award on the occasion of 40th anniversary of the death of the great writer and Nobel price winner, Rabindranat Tagore. Then was published his poster with verses, translated on Hindi language and with the porteret of Tagore.		  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 

  

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GOVERNMENT TO HOLD SESSION ON EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S QUESTIONNAIRE

Macedonian Government Thursday is to hold special session on reviewing the activities in regard to the distribution of the European Commission's questionnaires to ministries and other state institutions, which should be answered in the upcoming four months.
Deputy PM Radmila Sekerinska on Monday informed that number of questions included in the European Commission Questionnaire is approximately 3,000.
The number of questions, which each ministry should receive, has already been determined.
By Friday all ministries should receive the database, which will be final and from that point all efforts will be directed to answering each of the questions.
The Government expects that the questionnaire will be completed and handed over to the European Commission by January 31, 2005.

 

CONFERENCE "CARDS REGIONAL PROJECT - 2003" OPENS

The establishment of an independent, reliable and functioning judiciary is a guarantee for the country's integration into the European structures, Justice Minister Ixhet Memeti said at the opening of the conference "Regional Project - CARDS 2003" on Thursday in Skopje.
According to Memeti, the independent judiciary represents a cornerstone of the ruling of the law, the accepting and respecting of this fundamental principle and enables a promotion of the justice system.
He said that the problems in the part of judiciary independence and the slow process of justice are specific for all countries from the region and they shouldn't represent an obstacle for our democratic development and the process of EU integration.
Austrian Justice Minister Karin Miklautsch, in her address, stressed that more attention should be paid on the principles of promotion of democracy, freedom and respect of human rights.
"The regional cooperation and the cooperation with the Macedonian Justice Ministry are two different futures in the process of stabilization and association and they're equally significant in the process of EU integration of the country," said the Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Macedonia Donato Chiarini.
As the Thessaloniki Agenda emphasised and the Stabilisation and Association process (SAp) Report 2004 of the European Commission (EC) pointed out, Justice and Home Affaires (JHA) issues are of growing importance for the relations between the European Union (EU) and the Western Balkans.
Hence, the CARDS program, as a crucial part of the Stabilization and Association process, which supports the Western Balkan countries, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, in moving towards European Integration, aims also at strengthening the co-operation within the region and with the European Union.
The amount allocated to this project by the European Commission is Euro 5 million, with an additional contribution of Euro 500,000 from the Council of Europe, bringing the total funds available for the project to Euro 5,500,000.
The EC grant for the leadership of this project was awarded to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice. The project is implemented in close cooperation with the consortium partners, the Ministries of Justice of Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovenia and the Council of Europe.