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  ELECTIONS ON 5TH OF JULY

Despite the critics, all representative groups agreed the election to be on 5th of July, a date which was also offered by president of the Assembly, Jordanovski.
“It would be more logical if the elections are in June and not in July. But RM has interest as quick as possible to be held and a Government to be formed sooner”, Nikola Gruevski – VMRO-DPMNE.
“SDSM, unlike the other parties that have varied with the dates, 3 months earlier said that 5th of July is the wishful date”, Vlado Buckovski – SDSM.
“Long ago the date was mention and DOM was preparing for it”, Liljana Popovska – DOM.
“There won’t be any coalition with SDSM after the elections. Everybody gymnasts with their brain and nobody know and can’t know what can be expected”, Tito Petkovski –NSDP.
“It is not the happiest selected term, it’s more preferred for the ruling parties”, Vesna Janevska – VMRO – Narodna.
“The 5th July’s term is acceptable”, Menduh Tachi – DPA.
The Assembly will work till the beginning of the campaign.
 
     
  THE IMF IS AGAINST A LOW FOR EMPLOYEES OF BANKRUPT COMPANIES AND SURPLUS LABOR


IMF threatens with frizzing of the arrangement because of pre-election brought two laws, for the surplus labor and the changes in the law of insurance in case of unemployment. The Government urgently called a meeting after this dramatic news.
The chief of the monetarists Mark Grifits sent a letter to the minister of finance Popovski, in which he requests answer, from where the Government thinks to find funds in order to provide the disputable laws. The representatives unanimously supported the Law of surplus labor. The Government stated itself against because that mows with the debit budget policy and there is no money for that kind of operations, and neither has correct valuation how many people are offing to use the privileges. Sources from the Government are saying that misusages with these laws can be massive, respectively everybody can establish a firm and put it in surplus labor and after that to be on Government load, which would be unimaginable for our economy.
 
     
 

THE DEMARCATION WITH MACEDONIA MUST BE CLOSED

Buckovski called the international union to close the demarcation of the borders, before the arrangement of the Kosovo’s status. When the authorities in Pristina said that they will wait for more suitable times for this question, the prime minister now more than ever insists that to be done by the international factor. He is suggesting, the foreigners not to runaway from the resolving of this problem, because as he says, the keys is in their hands. They sponsor the dialog between Belgrade and Pristina, which is led in the frame offered by Kai Eide, the Norwegian diplomat who in his statement he mentioned that the demarcation should be finished before the status’ confirmation.
“If Kosovo wants to discuss about the independence, they should close the issue about the demarcation with Macedonia and to produce stability. I stated this in public, someone was angry, someone not, that is good for their aim to produce stability and to be with stronger positions. If they’re not ready to close this issue Macedonia should be more persistent and to press the international union. The combination that we made are not productive, the key is in the international union”.

 
     
  A PROTEST NOTE BY MFA

Skopje delivered an official protest to Sofia because of the incident near the Rozden monastery in Bulgaria, when the Macedonians in the country were stopped to bow in front of the Jane Sandanksi’s monument. The Bulgarian ambassador in the country, Miho Mihov, was called in MFA to explain why the Bulgarian nationalists are allowed to prevent the commemoration of Sandanski every year and why Bulgaria is not respecting the European convention of human rights which by the way guarantee the rights of the minority.
Mihov was asking how the preparing went for the event in Rozden and he promised that he will convey the protest. Also last year, for the commemoration of Sandanski, MFA has sent a protest to official Sofia. Although the promised, they don’t comment the reasons about the incident. The international court for human rights in Strasburg recently judged Bulgaria for that they didn’t register OMO Ilinden Pirin as a party and for the disabling of the public gatherings of the Macedonians who live there.
 
     
 

BOSKOVSKI IS TO PAY FOR HIS OWN DEFENSE

VMRO-DPMNE announced that the Hague Tribunal on 13th of April informed Ljube Boskovski that the costs for his defense must be paid by him.
“Having in mind that Ljube Boskovski was a minister of interior affairs of the Government of Republic of Macedonia, but incriminated for a work that he was doing during his function, VMRO-DPMNE is asking from the Government of the Republic of Macedonia urgently to separate means, with which a continuous functioning of his defense will be secured”, the spokesman of VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Bicikliski stated at the press-conference. He pointed out that his party was sending appeals to the Government for many times, more actively to be engaged regarding to the issue about the collaboration with the International criminal court for former Yugoslavia.

 
     
  SUPPORTING WALLS OF SAMOIL'S FORTRESS COLLAPSED STRUT

Because of landslide caused by the rains, the wall has been destroyed, respectively the walls on the north site from the Samoil’s fortress in Ohrid. The destroyed stones of the sharp part of the fortress, towards the Labino region, also dragged trees that rolled in to the lake. The Ohrid’s archeologist Pasko Kuzman confirmed that the reason for landslide of the wall is not only the old age but also the rains in the last period.
He says that almost 200 years is not intervened in protection in restoration of the abutment. The protection works of the Ohrid’s fortress were cancelled in 2002 because of lack of funds. The inspectors from the protection management of cultural heritage made an inspection of the damage from the collapsing. According to Jovan Ristov, from this management, the collapsed wall is not with cultural-historical value and from the information by the inspector for cultural heritage was established that it is a question of a collapsing of the perimeter wall, a wall that is outside from the part of the fortress.
 
     
  MANIFESTATION FOR REVIVAL OF THE OLD BAZAAR

The last weekend new formed City orchestra opened the manifestation “Sounds of the Old Bazaar”, marched through the streets of the Old Bazaar, where were welcomed by merry citizens from all generations. The initiative for revival of the bazaar was realized by the Youth cultural centre, City museum-Skopje and trhe Child cultural centre “Karpos”. The mayor Trifun Kostovski was also present at the opening ceremony. The mandolin orchestra from YCC made a performance in Kapan-an, and in the Museum of Macedonia documentary movies by Elizabeta Koneska has been presented. The Turkish theatre performed the play “Evnuh” in production by Kole Angelovski, and students from the Faculty of drama arts read Turkish poetry.
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 NEWS

  PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SCHEDULED OFFICIALLY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Parliament Speaker Ljupco Jordanovski scheduled officially the parliamentary elections for July 5, 2006.
"President of Parliament Ljupco Jordanovski according to article 67, paragraph 4 of the Macedonian Constitution and article 12 paragraph 1 of the Electoral Code, made a decision for scheduling the parliamentary elections," Macedonian Parliament says in a press release.

GOVERNMENT SESSION ON BACILO CASE, BANKRUPT COMPANY WORKERS, ING

The Government on Thursday's session is due to review the opportunities for solving of the status of the bankrupt company workers, after the decision of President Crvenkovski not to sign the bill on changes to the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance.
Buckovski had a meeting Wednesday with Stojan Stojanov, Chairman of the Bankrupt Company Workers Association. Buckovski expressed understanding for the difficult situation of those workers, saying that the government will address the problem at the next session by drafting a law to improve their status. The draft will foresee mechanisms for stimulating employers to engage such workers.
The Government's Cabinet, as Finance Minister Nikola Popovski announced, will review the contents of the talks that Government's delegation and Eurostandard realized with ING representative yesterday in Amsterdam for their entry in the Post Bank.
The Government is due to review and reach conclusions on the State Attorney's conduct in Bacilo case legal proceedings, while taking into consideration the findings of the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Supreme Court.