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TWO MACEDONIAN MINISTERS
ATTEND NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING
A Macedonian delegation led by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of
Defense, Antonio Miloshoski and Lazar Elenovski, will take part at the
meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at NATO headquarter in Brussels.
They are due to present the current status of the implementation of the
Action Plan and the 2006/07 Annual National Programme for membership in the
Alliance, thus marking an official end of the eighth stage of the Action
Plan implementation, Macedonian Foreign Ministry announced.
Ahead of the NAC meeting, Ministers Miloshoski and Elenovski are scheduled
to hold talks with the NATO chief Jaap De Hoop Scheffer and with the NATO
Ambassadors of USA, UK, Germany and Slovenia.
POLETAN-COCOROVSKA TO BE
EXTRADITED TO MACEDONIA TODAY
Macedonian national Stanislava Poletan-Cocorovska, who is accused of
organizing the transport of half a ton of cocaine seized at border crossing
Blace, is expected to be extradited by Serbian authorities to Macedonia on
Thursday.
At the border crossing Tabanovce, Cocorovska is to be transferred to
Macedonia under heavy security, after a four-month detention in Belgrade.
Justice Minister Mihajlo Manevski stated Tuesday that the Serbian Justice
Ministry passed this decision upon the request of Macedonian bodies.
The Procesution Office expects for Cocorovska to shed light on the cocaine
trafficking ring.
About four months ago, Macedonian police seized about 400kg of cocaine - the
country's largest-ever haul of the drug.
Officers found the cocaine, which has a street value of more than $50m,
hidden in 60 paint tins on a lorry which was crossing from Kosovo.
A police spokesman said the narcotics - high-quality Venezuelan cocaine -
were likely bound for Greece.
- The drug was packed in paint containers and was coming from Venezuela,
through Montenegro, Kosovo, being aimed at Greece, spokesman Ivo Kotevski
said.
The drugs were loaded at the port city of Bar in Montenegro and the truck
was stopped on the border between Macedonia and Kosovo at the town of Blace,
some 20km north of the capital, Skopje.
The lorry driver, Alija Azirovic is in custody, while Thessaloniki police
have issued arrest warrant for three Greeks for alleged masterminding of the
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9TH OF MAY -EUROPE DAY AND DAY OF
VICTORY AGAINST FASCISM
A series of manifestations will be staged today in the European capitals to
mark 9th of May - The Europe Day and the Day of Victory against Fascism.
Macedonian Parliament Speaker, Ljubisha Georgievski, has invited the
Ambassadors accredited to Macedonia; representing the countries whose
soldiers fought on the Macedonian territory during the First World War; to
lay flowers at the military cemeteries located at Bitola's outskirts.
The programme schedule includes also holding a panel discussion on the topic
"EU absorption capacity and the enlargement", followed by a formal meeting
and awards presentation.
While most of the European capitals will be celebrating the Europe Day, a
military parade will be staged at the Moscow's Red Square to mark the 62nd
anniversary of the end of WWII and victory over fascism.
On 9 May, 1945 at Karlshorst, near Berlin, the Wehrmacht signed
unconditional surrender to the Russians. President Truman and Churchill
declared 8 May to be 'VE Day', the day of victory in Europe.
The signatories for the German High Command were Grand Admiral von Freiburg
; General Hans-Jurgen Strümpf, Head of the German Airforce, and Field
marshal Keital. The capitulation was submitted to the Soviet Marshal Georgy
Zhukov, in the presence of the British Marshal Arthur Tedder.
This global conflict split a majority of the world's nations into two
opposing camps: the Allies and the Axis. Spanning much of the globe, World
War II resulted in the deaths of over 50 million people, making it the
deadliest conflict in human history. Nearly two-thirds of those killed in
the war were civilians and approximately six million European Jews were
killed in the Holocaust.
World War II was the most widespread war humanity has ever experienced,
mobilizing over 100 million soldiers from 61 nations, with hostilities
covering over 20 million km². The total war erased the distinction between
civil and military resources and saw the complete mobilization of a nation's
economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the
war effort.
Vast war damages in Europe only were estimated to $260 billion. |
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