Maksim Dimitrievski, Mayor of Kumanovo, at the CIVIL conference said that when we talk about green, everyone associates it with a green environment, but it has a greater meaning, and that is human rights.

One of the priorities is the fight against violent extremism and every penny invested for such activity returns twice as much, positively.

Kumanovo is part of the “strong cities” and we have several action plans to prevent extremism. We started with trainings in schools and after the training the teachers themselves worked with the students and this Covid crisis is a good soil where frustrations and hate speech are created.

Kumanovo is a fertile ground for the development of nationalism and extremism. In cooperation with the leaders of the fan groups, we agreed on fair play cheering not only on the field but also outside the stadiums.

If there is graffiti with “death for k….”, “death for sh…….”, we immediately go and delete such offensive graffiti.

Students from different ethnic communities together drew 3D pedestrian crossings with modest funds from the municipality.

A part of the Muslims posing as Salafists built an illegally constructed building (mosque) opposite the school and we have a problem with the demolition of that building, together with the IRC.

“The state must build a system for resocialization of returnees from the battlefields, of course to serve their sentence beforehand,” Dimitrievski said.