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  Bilingual passports

The Ministry of internal affairs has officially started with issuing new bilingual passports from December 6. In the new passports, as the state secretary of Ministry of internal affairs, Sali Ramadani, has informed, the data of the citizens from Macedonian ethnic community will be seal on Macedonian language, on Cyrillic and on the basic Latin. For the citizens who are speaking official language different than Macedonian, the data will be seal on the official language also and the letter that is used by those citizens.
Also new items in the passports is writing the visits of Macedonian citizens in foreign countries who are out of the country more than three months, as well as writing the national coat of arms on the title page of the passport.
 
     
  Governmental officials have cover up property

The Anticorruption Commission has discovered that four governmental officials covered up part of their property. The Commission was informed from the denunciation that three governmental officials and one person with court function after the election of the function, in the questionnaire they have not registered all their property.
Jovan Trpenovski, President of the Commission for preventing from corruption, is claiming that in these cases exist based suspicion for violation of the Law and immediately was acted in accordance with regulations of the Commission. “We submit an application to the Department of public incomes with request from them to establish the real property situation of these officials”- says Trpenovski.
 
     
 

The Budget for 2005 is defined

The government has defined the Budget for 2005. The Minister of finance, Nikola Popovski, has announced that the budget will be 59,2 milliards denars and the deficit will be 1 percent from the gross homemade products, as it was planed. One of the importance changes in the Budget for this year is the level of the defense, which will increase for 600 million denars. This change is because of the projection according to the standards of NATO with whom every member-country and pretender for the Alliance must set aside 2,3 percent from the budget for the defense. The help for the individual farmers will increase for 100 million denars and also the Code for excisions was defined. The Government has defined the Strategy for structural reforms of public administration and according to this strategy approximately thousand people will be out of work next year.

 
     
  Naumovski has became judge

Branko Naumovski, present Public Defender, was unanimous chosen for new judge in the Constitutional Court by the Parliament. During the discussion, the parliamentarians from different political parties praised Naumovski for his work as a Public Defender. The authorities and opposition were confidence that Naumovski as Public Defender conscientiously and responsibly has performance his duties. Because of that the opposition has asked Naumovski to stay one mandate more as Public Defender.
 
     
 

Syndicate secession

The Syndicate of education, science and culture, the Syndicate of defense and the Syndicate of metalworkers, energy workers and miners should make a decision for secession from the Union of Syndicates of Macedonia, till the end of December. They are planning to organize new union with 70.000 members. The Syndicate of financial workers will join this new Union. Also several other Syndicates are announcing secession from the Union of Syndicates of Macedonia and several independent Syndicates are interested for this new union.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 

 

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ECONOMIC COOPERATION PRIORITY FOR MACEDONIA AND RUSSIA

Russia and Macedonia have historically enjoyed good, friendly and constructive relations without any problems and future bilateral cooperation should focus on improvement of the economic ties, Macedonian and Russian Foreign Ministers Ilinka Mitreva and Sergey Lavrov said at Wednesday's press conference.
Macedonian FM said that they had discussed political and economic cooperation, situation in the region and international issues.
"The relations with Russia are priority for Macedonia," FM Mitreva said, adding that the talks with Russian FM were mainly focused on economic cooperation.
"We have agreed on holding of 3rd meeting of inter-governmental commission for trade, economic and science-technical cooperation in January 2005, which will be focused on reviewing possibilities for trade liberalisation, trade exchange increase and Macedonian export to Russia, cooperation in the energy sphere and participation of the Russian partners on Macedonian market," Mitreva said. Inter-governmental agreement on regulation of clearing debt of the former USSR towards Macedonia was agreed to be signed soon.
Russian FM announced signing of series of economic, military-technical and cultural agreements for next year, which is expected to happen during the visit of FM Mitreva to Moscow.
Lavrov stressed the role of Macedonia for the stability in the region and the support for sooner demarcation of the Macedonian northern border.
"Russia assesses Macedonia's role for maintenance of the Balkan stability as very important and we support every initiative which comes from Macedonian side. We have expressed our support for demarcation of the border between Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro in the part to Kosovo."
Lavrov explained the Russia's support of the resolution, which was reviewed in regard to this issue at the UN Security Council. "In the UN Security Council frameworks with participation of the Macedonian government modalities for resolving of those problems should be found. Government in Belgrade, UNMIK and provisional organs of self-government in Kosovo should also take part. This is the most important issue because once solved, I assure you that money and people will be found who will conduct the border demarcation," Sergey Lavrov said.
Mitreva and Lavrov also discussed the cultural cooperation and possibility for opening cultural centres in both countries.
Two ministers signed a Working Consultations Plan between Macedonian and the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs Ministries for 2005-2006.
Minister Lavrov said that Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski accepted the invitation from the Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the ceremony on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism in Moscow next year.