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THE GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE
FOR BOSKOVSKI
The government of the Republic of Macedonia has given a guarantee to the
lawyer Edina Rashidovic who represents the former minister of interior
affairs Ljube Boskovski that enables Boskovski to defend himself from
freedom.
As Rashidovic stated, this guarantee should be enough for the Hague’s
investigators to make a decision. Boskovski to defend from freedom, of
course, during the trial to be under constant surveillance by the Macedonian
Government and by the organs of investigations from our country, which will
guarantee that the former minister won’t leave the country.
The guarantee that the Government have given is pravosilna, but it should be
fulfilled also by the Croatian Governmnt, because Boskovski is a Croatian
citizen too. According to some valuations, that should happened after the
managing the subject “Rashtanski lozja” by the Croatian Court, for which,
let us remind, the Appellate Court in Skopje made a liberating decision.
The unofficial information are saying that Boskovsk could be released,
respectively in a house arrest in Croatia, because on that way there won’t
be any influence to the witnesses and at the same time he won’t be active
neither on political happenings nor on election campaigns. |
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MACEDONIA WITH SAFETY
MEASURES AGAINST THE BIRD FLU
Although the last weekend in Poland was registered first case of bird flu ,
the the chief of the Macedonian Veterinarian administration, Slobodan
Cokrevski, says that that should not cause panic because safety measures are
carrying out in our country in accordance to the references by EU. 200 birds
have been analyzed so far and in neither one of them has found virus of bird
flu. The spreading of the virus is continuing in Europe. 140 cases have been
registered in Germany so far, and in Austria 5 new cases of this virus have
been confirmed at the wild ducks, so that the Austrian authorities issued an
order that the domestic poultry must be kept closed so there won’t be any
contact with the wild birds. |
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SWEDISH
HELP FOR QUICKER REFORMS
The Swedish government has prepared a new strategy about collaboration with
Macedonia, which will be supported with 70 millions Swedish kronas annually,
respectively with around 7.5 million euros.
“Sweden is increasing the fund support of Macedonia and concentrated it
towards the agriculture and improvement of the people’s standard in the poor
regions, protection of the life environment and the improvement of the human
rights. That is an important support in relation of the Macedonian tendency
to approach towards EU”, the Swedish minister for help of the country in
transition, Karin Jemtin, stated, announcing the use of the strategy in
different fields. |
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HEALING WITH CHECKED AND ESTABLISHED MEDICINES
For about month and a half the patients from the Macedonian health should
receive precise treatment and healing with checked and established
medicines, which guarantee is the medicine based on evidences. These
guarantees, according to the experts’ opinions, will give new instructions
for healing that were prepared by special commission. The instructions
should began implementing at the end of the next month, but how possible
will be in the practice, it is still unknown, because the country should
still say if there will be enough funds to support this in financial way.
According to professor Katica Zafirovska, responsible of the Commission for
making of these instructions, there use will mean rational spent money,
document with which exactly will be confirmed what should and what shouldn’t
be used as methodology during diagnosing and healing of certain disease. |
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THE LOCALITY “MARKOVI
KULI” PROTECTED BY LAW
The minister of environment and physical planning, Zoran Shapuric, during
the visit to the Institute of Old Slavonic culture in Prilep, stated that
soon the Assembly will bring law with which the locality “Markovi Kuli” in
Prilep will be protected as natural and cultural area. One of the most vivid
and medieval fortress-cities in Macedonia will be proposed and for the
permanent list of world cultural and natural heritage of UNESCO and in other
organizations. “Markovi Kuli” are situated southeast of Prilep, in the
settlement Varos. The stone sculptural forms are gift of the nature, old
more than 800 million years. The region is a hill 120-180 meters high,
surrounded by sharp dowhills covered with monumental granite rocks. |
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A JUBILEE CONCERT OF VESNA
GINOVSKA-ILKOVA
On the occasion of ten years life on the scene, the soprano Vesna
Ginovska-Ilkova held a concert in the Macedonian opera and ballet. Guests on
the concert were the pianist Simon Trpcevski and the soprano Radmila
Bakocevic from Belgrade, and the conduction was by Sasha Nikolovski-Gjumar.
Arias from opera works by Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Guno, Bellini, Mascani ,
Ponkieli were on the program and Trpcevski played the compositions:
“Cordoba” by Albenis and “Mazurka” by Shopen.
The firs role of Ginovska-Ilkova was Mikaela in the opera “Carmen”, and last
month she successfully attended in the Opera in Rieka with the role of
Jokonda, in the same named opera. |
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PRILEP IN THE EUROPEAN
CARNIVAL FAMILY
On 5th of March, on the holiday Forgiveness, in Prilep the fifth in a row
carnival manifestation was held. Among the bear-men, masked wizards,
doctors, politicians and other figures from the triviality and from the
fairytales also marched. The city and the organization board took care of
this masquerade. Around 500 guests and participants with hundred group and
single masks from the country, from Slovenia, Bulgaria marched through
Prilep, showing their authentic and cognizable masks for their region. Befor
the start of the carnival defile in Prilep, the president of the association
of the carnival cities , Henry van der Pron, sent a message: “The carnival
got international character and surely will become member of the European
family of carnival cities”. |
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CARNIVAL PARTY IN STRUMICA
The carnival party in Strumica began with the Saturday’s masquerade, on
which the masked guests have showed their spirit of entertainment, humor and
satire and for the first time this year they forgot their daily obligations
and problems. On the main masquerade guests from Finland, Malta, as well as
representatives from the national FEKK committees of the neighbor countries
were present. The masquerade lasted till the early morning hours, and
Cvetanka Vasilevska and Tomce Sokolov were selected as prince and princess,
who led the main carnival evening. On Sunday, on the Forgiveness Day, around
1.500 from Strumica and from all of the Country marched through the centre
of Strumica, dressed in the figures from the cartoons. |
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US DELEGATION VISITS MACEDONIA FOR
CONSULTATIONS ON NATO ISSUES
An interagency U.S. Government delegation headed by Ambassador Victoria
Nuland, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), visits Macedonia for consultations with
senior government officials and political party representatives.
Discussions are expected to center on Macedonia's progress in meeting the
standards outlined in its NATO Membership Action Plan, and on other topics
of bilateral significance.
In addition to Ambassador Nuland, the delegation will include Kurt Volker,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs; Scott Schless, Principal Director for Eurasia in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense; officials from the Western Europe/Balkans Division of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. European Command, and others. The
U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Gillian Milovanovic, will host the delegation
and take part in the meetings.
This high-level visit will offer an opportunity for members of the
delegation to engage in discussions with President Branko Crvenkovski, Prime
Minister Vlado Buckovski, Parliament Speaker Ljupco Jordanovski, Foreign
Minister Ilinka Mitreva, Defense Minister Jovan Manasievski, and other
senior officials of the Macedonian Government.
The delegation will also meet with leaders of opposition parties in the
Parliament, and with the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and the
Committee on Defense and Security Affairs.
The interagency delegation is traveling to Albania and Croatia March 6-7 to
discuss issues related to NATO membership for the Adriatic Charter
countries.
GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW
ELECTORAL CODE
The Macedonian Government at Wednesday's session will review the draft
Electoral Code, which should enter in parliamentary procedure by the end of
this week.
The Government will also discuss the Draft Law on Foreign Affairs.
As Government's press service said, the Government will obligate the Foreign
Ministry to request from the Serbian/Montenegro Foreign Ministry to check
the claims of Macedonian Orthodox Church, that Serbian Government has
financed Jovan Vraniskovski and the so called Ohrid Archdiocese.
UN SECRETARY GENERAL MESSAGE
ON OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
The theme of this year's International Women's Day - the role of women in
decision-making - is central to the advancement of women around the world,
and to the progress of humankind as a whole. As the Beijing Declaration
tells us, "women's empowerment and their full participation on the basis of
equality in all spheres of society, including participation in the
decision-making process and access to power, are fundamental for the
achievement of equality, development and peace."
The international community is finally beginning to understand a fundamental
principle: women are every bit as affected as any man by the challenges
facing humanity in the 21st century - in economic and social development, as
well as in peace and security. Often, they are more affected. It is,
therefore, right and indeed necessary that women should be engaged in the
decision-making processes in all areas, with equal strength and in equal
numbers.
The world is also starting to grasp that there is no policy more effective
in promoting development, health and education than the empowerment of women
and girls. And I would venture that no policy is more important in
preventing conflict, or in achieving reconciliation after a conflict has
ended.
We do have achievements to celebrate in women’s representation around the
world. In January of this year, the proportion of women in national
parliaments reached a new global high. There are now 11 women Heads of State
or Government, in countries on every continent. And three countries - Chile,
Spain and Sweden – now have gender parity in Government.
But we have far, far more to do. The rate of progress overall is slow. Let
us remember that in individual countries, the increase in the number of
women in decision-making has not happened by itself. Rather, it is often the
result of institutional and electoral initiatives, such as the adoption of
goals and quotas, political party commitment and sustained mobilization. It
is also the result of targeted and concerted measures to improve the balance
between life and work. Those are lessons every nation - and the United
Nations - need to take very seriously.
At the 2005 World Summit, world leaders declared that "progress for women is
progress for all". On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate
ourselves to demonstrating the truth behind those words. Let us ensure that
half the world's population takes up its rightful place in the world’s
decision-making.
On this occasion, the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in
Macedonia would like to congratulate the country for the report to the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
reviewed this year.
The Committee commends the country for its efforts to combat trafficking,
for the inclusion of gender quota in the election legislation and for the
established local gender committees.
But, the Committee also notes that, although a lot has been achieved, more
needs to be done to raise awareness on gender discrimination, particularly
amongst rural and ethnic women. Also, further assistance needs to be
provided to women - victims of trafficking and violence.
The Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the country would
like to emphasize that the follow up on these important issues will be vital
if Macedonia is to meet the Millennium Development Goals and in particular
Goal 3 - "Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women" by 2015.
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