NEWS OF THE DAY Zaev demands Paunovski to be dismissed for his public defiance against his superiors
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that, although Director of the State Market Inspectorate Stojko Paunovski is his personal and exceptionally good friend, he will request from the government services for him to be dismissed. He considers that there are grounds for this and expects a procedure to be initiated.
“It’s unacceptable for someone to be leading polemics every day with the Vice-President of the Government, and now with the Prime Minister. That is defiance that is not allowed. There is a hierarchy in the government, and it is known how it should function”, says Zaev.
STATEMENT OF THE DAY Grubi’s Cabinet in response to CIVIL: We condemn the unfortunate events, we call on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to act…
“We condemn the unfortunate isolated events on ethnic and any other base. The government policies for an equal society of equal citizens have shown to be successful and this reflects on the relations between all communities in the country, in the direction of building a cohesive society for all citizens integrated in NATO and the EU. Regarding the isolated incidents, we call on the MOI and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to clear up the case. For the specific case, we will contact and speak to the Mayor of the Municipality of Kocani and the community local leaders in order to contribute to the full respect of the rights of all citizens in the country and to put an end to the discrimination on all grounds”, replied the cabinet of the Minister of Political System and Relations Between Communities, Artan Grubi to CIVIL’s several questions related to the ethnically motivated incidents in Kocani, where the Roma community is the target of radical structures.
FLASH NEWS
INTEGRATION Within the official visit to the Republic of Kosovo, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani had separate meetings with President Vjosa Osmani – Sadriu and with the President of the Parliament, Glauk Konjufca, stressing that the Euro-Atlantic perspective and the integration of the entire region remains an unequivocal determination of both countries.
HEALTH “In the newly-opened gynaecological office in the settlement of Shuto Orizari, about 20 thousand women living in this neighbourhood will have access to primary gynaecological health care”, said Minister of Health Venko Filipce, who today visited the Polyclinic in Shuto Orizari on the occasion of the opening of the office of the family gynaecologist.
EDUCATION An agreement has been signed for cooperation in the dual education between secondary school “Mihajlo Pupin” and four new companies from the technical sector. The Ministry of Education and Science for the first time this year will offer 2000 scholarships for 2000 students who will enrol in the dual and three-year curricula programs, in the amount of 3500 Denars for every student, with the purpose to assist in their education process.
SSM Workers whose workers’ rights have been violated in the country will be able to report through the new mobile application of the Federation of Trade Union of Macedonia “SSM – My workers’ rights”, while the reports will immediately after be sent to the State Labour Inspectorate.
JUSTICE Suspicious software of Dragi Rashkovski are being discovered while he is in custody in Shutka. Rashkovski’s company, apart from procuring the disputed traffic software, also maintained the hosting of the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors “Pavel Shatev”, and during a search of his office at the Faculty of Law the software with questions for the candidates was also found.
CHANGES The amendments to the Law on Teachers and Professional Associates are already in parliamentary procedure and anticipate for all new employments in schools from now on to be made directly for an indefinite period of time, instead of the recent practice of waiting two years for the start of the process of transformation..
VACCINATION MPs and some employees in the services of the Parliament today are being vaccinated in the VIP A1 Arena in Skopje with the Sputnik V vaccine. The vaccination is carried out as part of the immunization of the critical infrastructure in the country.
CLIAMTE CHANGES Minister of Environment and Physical Planning Naser Nuredini today presented the climate ambition of the Republic of North Macedonia at the virtual Ministerial Roundtable organized by US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, within the Leaders Summit on Climate of US President Joe Biden.
CIVIL ACTIVITIES
CIVIL published the first video journal on diversity, in which part of the organization’s team speaks about the activities within the Initiative Make a Difference: Respect Diversity.
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translation: N. Cvetkovska
