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FRENCH MILITARY DELEGATION
VISITS MACEDONIA
A delegation of the French Army General Staff, led by Colonel Jean Morin,
pays an official three-day visit to Macedonia, the Defense Ministry said
Wednesday in a press release.
The delegation is scheduled to meet Defense Minister Zoran Konjanovski and
the Macedonian Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Miroslav Stojanovski.
Under the 1996 cooperation agreement between the Defense Ministries of both
countries, the Macedonian-French Commission will have its 12th meeting to
sum up the activities in 2008 and present the plan for 2009.
The delegation will visit the Special Operations Regiment and the Air WING.
Macedonia is attaching great significance to the cooperation in France and
in this respect intends to appoint a military attache to Paris, thus
contributing to further development of the overall relations between the two
countries. |
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NEWS
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137TH ANNIVERSARY OF GOCE DELCEV'S
BIRTH OBSERVED
Marking the 137th anniversary of the birth of Macedonian revolutionary Goce
Delcev, the Macedonian Orthodox Church held Wednesday a memorial service in
St. Spas church in Skopje. Delegations from the Government, Parliament,
President's cabinet, ARM, Association of Army Veterans, Macedonian Academy
of Arts and Sciences laid wreaths on his grave.
Metropolitan Kiril, who served the liturgical observance in honor of the
departed, in the spirit of Delcev's visionary messages called on the people
to "unite and build bridges of understanding and firm cooperation and
friendship with every peaceful nation and country."
- Had he lived in present times, Goce Delcev would had urged us only through
unity, love and hope and in our centuries-long existence to see our eternity
and to build it in order to endure in these territories as a nation,
sovereign state and church, said Metropolitan Kiril.
Goce Delcev was born on this day in 1872 in Kilkis, present day Greece. He
was educated in a gymnasium in Thessaloniki and in Sofia's Military Academy.
After graduation, he was a notable teacher in Stip and a member of the TMORO
Central Committee. The revolutionary was killed by the Turkish army on 4 May
1903 in Banica village. |
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