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KRASNIKI IN FRONT OF
JUSTICE
Finally, Agim Krasniki from Kondovo, received, in hand, the indictment for
causing general hazard to the public. The trial against him was already
postponed to November 1st . Only the main defendant Kemal Sali, appeared in
front of the court, and the other defendants were not there. The judge Risto
Katavenovski found that the police have informed them and that it could not
find the defendants and arrest them, so for the seventh time the trial was
rescheduled. When everybody started to go for the exit, Krasniki appeared
with his lawyer. He picked up the indictment, stated that he didn’t need a
translator in Albanian and left. This is the second time that he has
appeared in the Court of Skopje No.1, first time in August when the warrants
for his arrest were reversed. He now stands trial for the kidnapping and
causing general hazard for the public. Agim Krasniki is the man, who for
over a year was leading the game in Kondovo, and the trial started just now,
but not for the acts that are known to the entire public. He led the armed
group and controlled Kondovo for over a year, and trough the foreign media
send messages that he will shell Skopje and that his group will not
surrender their weapons. If we are state where there is the rule of law it
is time that the law is upheld. |
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STABILE MULTIETHNIC
RELATIONS
Interethnic relations in the Macedonian society are for the large part
stabilized, and although it exists, the communication between Macedonians
and Albanians is selective. The biggest problem are the prejudices,
frustrations and fear, that is the evaluation of the Council for interethnic
relations, which is part of the project “Light”, which was realized by the
Institute Euro Balkan.
As it is stated in the press release, at their last session the Council
evaluated that the interethnic communication among Macedonians and Albanians
is between a 100% on the market till 0% on the field of intermarriages,
which says that Macedonia is still a divided society.
Incidents with ethnic dimension, like, Kondovo, Struga, Celopek, although
they don’t have enough energy to cause a bigger conflict, they still have
manage to underline the interethnic relations in the country as unresolved
and problematic. Among other issues and problems, which reflect negatively
on the interethnic relations, are the bad economic condition, unemployment
and poverty, which affect most of the population from all ethnic
communities. In order to overcome this sort of condition, the Council
recommends that it is necessary to open the canals of communication and
affirmation of other topics by the Albanian political forces on which they
can promote and realize their ideas, and not to insist only on the ethnical
dimension in their relations with the Macedonians. Similar they recommend to
the Macedonian political forces that it is time for bolder steps, because
the initial energy for integration in the case of Macedonia must come from
the top. It is time for the country to fully take the initiative and
responsibility and to finance programs for the strengthening of
communications, but with a long-term goal and more comprehensive plans. |
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WEAPONS FOUND IN LJUBOTEN
Although the disarmament
action ended a long time ago, recently, after receiving a tip and taking
measures on the ground, with a warrant by a judge, in the village of
Ljuboten near Skopje a search was made during which large cash of weapons
and ammunitions was discovered and seized. The Ministry of interior stated
that 10 automatic rifles 7.62 mm, 23 hand grenades with detonators, a box of
1000 bullets of 7.62 mm, a sack with 1140 bullets of 7.9 mm, rifle bucks and
munitions clips were found. The weapons were taken to the Ministry and
forensic analysis is being done in order to determine the origin and
ownership of the weapons. During the search, according to the statement, a
teem of “Proxima” was present. |
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A FIGHT AGAINST THE LAUNDERING OF MONEY
The fight of laundering of money in the banking sector was the topic on the
seminar which was held in Bitola, in the organization of the Department for
the prevention of money laundering in the Republic of Macedonia and the
German society for technical assistance (GTZ).
On the seminar the representatives of 16 banks from Macedonia as well as the
Central Bank, from the Council of Europe and the public prosecutor of
Germany, Roman Posek attended. According to Vladimir Naumovski, the director
of the Department for the prevention of money laundering, starting from
2002, Macedonia is actively getting involved in the global efforts against
money laundering, and the result of which is the establishment of the
Department.
The representatives of the banks and the Council of Europe underlined that
it is a mater of a problem that doesn’t exist in just one particular
country, but much wider and concerns everybody. They pointed out the example
of Germany where in 2000 4401 cases were reported for suspected money
laundering. As a result of the active fight against this deed, the number of
reports in the last five years has increased for 100%. These numbers were
pointed out as an indicator that the fight against this kind of crime is
continually strengthening, among else, trough the active involvement of the
public. The participants of the seminar stated that in the world annually
around a billion dollars are laundered, which in a large part a used to
finance terrorist organizations. |
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A MACEDONIAN DELEGATION
IN MOSCOW
A Macedonian delegation in the sphere of the media, led by the director of
the Agency for information of Macedonia, Vele Mitanoski, stayed in an
official return visit to the Russian federation, at the invitation by the
Russian information agency for international cooperation “RIA-Novosti”. An
exchange of news groups and programs was agreed upon, on a reciprocal basis,
as well as media participation in the next tourist exchange with Ohrid and
other cities. At the end of the month, twelve tour operators from Macedonia
will stay in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Macedonian delegation visited
several electronic and printed media, and news agencies, during which it
discussed with the journalist and the executives about specific forms and
activities in the promotion of the Russian-Macedonian media cooperation. The
Federal agency for press and mass communications and the Agency for
information of Macedonia, within the intergovernmental Agreement for
cooperation, exchange their experiences in the part of legislature and
finance of the public broadcasting services. |
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TRPECVSKI IN THE UNIVERSAL
HALL
In front of the Macedonian fans, on the 11th of October, in the Universal
Hall in Skopje, the most successful Macedonian pianist Simon Trpcevski for
the first time performed the concert No. 3, opus 30 by Rahmaninov, a work
which is regarded as one of the most complicated in music. The performance
was ended with the performance of the overture Romeo and Juliet by
Tchaikovsky. Trpcevski was accompanied by the Macedonian philharmonic with
Sasa Nikolevski Gumar as the conductor. The Stanvey piano, on which
Trpcevski was playing, was borrowed form the “Ohrid Summer” festival.
This concert in on the initiative of Trpcevski, who wanted to perform in
front of his own public, dedicated it to the national holiday of 11th of
October. |
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ON RAMP FOR HANDICAP
PERSONS
After nearly 70 years of existence, the persons with handicap can enter the
Macedonian Parliament, so it became accessible to this group of citizens,
for whom the on ramp was build.
“We have an on ramp in front of the Parliament and it is accessible. Now we
are waiting on the other public institutions to start an initiative for the
building of on ramps”, Dusko Hristov, the managing director of “Polio Plus”
stated.
These on ramps weren’t built on the international day for people with
handicap. Then both the guests from abroad and the envoys with handicap were
carried by hand to hear the address of the speaker of the Parliament
Jordanovski.
Members of the “Polio Plus” hope that in all state institutions there will
be no discrimination in relation to the accessibility to them. Deliberately
or by accident, the on ramps coincided with the caravan that started form
Krisevo for the gathering of 10000 signatures, in order to enact a law for
the protection and dignity of the persons with handicap. |
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A FEAR FROM BIRD FLUE
The terrifying bird flue is closing to Macedonia, while in Turkey seven
people are hospitalized under the suspicion that they are infected with the
human variation of the bird flue. Romania is testing whether they also have
the deadly virus which killed 65 people in Southeast Asia, as well as
millions of birds. Our neighbors have already made plans for the protection
of the bird flue. They are educating the owners of the companies, and the
citizens with leaflets about the symptoms the disease. For the Macedonian
authorities- there is no need for panic.
“We have a temporary ban on import of chickens form those countries where
the bird flue has already appeared”, Agim Ramadani, the chief of the cabinet
of the Ministry of agriculture stated.
Watching the wild birds is also an option, and the ministries for
agriculture and health until now didn’t establish any commissions which will
keep track of the situation. In the RZZZ they are expecting the first tests
for diagnosis, and protective gloves and masks are being purchased.
According to epidemiologist, the illness is transferred only form bird to
man. On impact are the bird farmers. The disease is deadly to humans, with
symptoms of high fever, pain in the joints, and inflammation of the lungs.
While the authorities are hoping that the bird flue will fly over Macedonia,
the Institute of Medicine Erazmos from Rotterdam predicts- a pandemic that
will engulf a fifth of the population of the World. |
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL GIVE
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF MACEDONIA'S ACHIEVEMENTS
The European Commission avis on Macedonia, which is to be presented next
month, will be a realistic assessment of the country's achievements, but
will also note the weaknesses with which Macedonian authorities should
deal," Euro-Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Wednesday after meeting
Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski.
Judicial, public administration reforms are Macedonia's priorities at the
moment, Rehn said at a joint press conference with Buckovski, giving credit
to the country's progress in implementing the power decentralization
process.
Macedonia will continue to work hard on reforms, Buckovski said, pointing
out that the EU summit in December will be crucial for the country's
candidate status.
Referring to the latest UN proposal for putting an end to Skopje-Athens
dispute over Macedonia's constitutional name, Rehn said the matter should be
resolved by both countries, which, through dialogue and constructive talks,
should find the best solution within the UN.
WASHINGTON DOES NOT COMMENT
NIMITZ'S PROPOSAL, SUPPORTS EFFORTS FOR RESOLVING NAME DISPUTE
The US does not have any comment on proposal of the UN's Special
Representative Matthew Nimitz for resolving on Macedonia name dispute but
will support the efforts for surpassing the problem, US State Department
Deputy Spokesman Adam Ereli.
"This is an issue that is being worked by the UN's Special Representative.
He is, on behalf of the Secretary General, trying to get the Greeks and
Macedonians to agree on a name. That's a process that we support. I'm not
aware of what -- of when we talked to Nimitz, but I would simply state that
our role in this is a purely supportive one and not directly involved,"
Ereli said.
Asked whether Washington supports membership of Macedonia into the EU and
NATO after Greece's threats to hinder these processes by putting a veto,
Ereli said that at the point no statements that will additionally complicate
the situation should be given.
"Where we are right now is that Nimitz is working with both sides to deal
with the name issue and we're supporting his efforts, and what happens in
the future other issues is, I think, pretty speculative," US State
Department Deputy Spokesman Adam Ereli.
FOUR MILLION PEOPLE IN SOUTH
ASIA NEED HELP FOLLOWING QUAKE
According to latest assessments, four million people need help following
last week's devastating earthquake in South Asia.
UN stress that one million people are faced with lack of basic necessities,
while two million need new shelter. A total of US$ 270 million are required
for reconstruction of the quake-hit region.
Destroyed bridges and roads create large logistic problems, accompanied by
torrential rains and cold. At least 23,000 people are believed dead in the
earthquake. |
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