Government concludes list with 19 proposals for appointing of ambassadors
The Government today at a closed session established the list with 19 proposals for appointing ambassadors of our country to the following destinations: Athens, Belgrade, Zagreb, Tirana, Brussels, The Hague, Moscow, NATO, the Council of Europe (Strasbourg), UN (Geneva), Doha, Prague, New Delhi, Rome, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Vatican, Pristina and Beijing.
The list will be submitted to the President of the State, Stevo Pendarovski.
Bulgarian Academy with a reaction to MANU: The Macedonian language does not exist
The Charter of the Macedonian Language adopted by MANU contains incorrect and unacceptable positions that undermine the relations between the two neighbouring countries, is stated in a reaction of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS).
Zaev: We will react to BAS’s position denying the Macedonian language
Republic of North Macedonia will react to the position of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) that the Macedonian language is a dialect of the Bulgarian language, announced today Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
– We will react as this issue is part of the issue of resolving the problems between the Republic of North Macedonia and Bulgaria in the Agreement of friendship and good-neighbourliness. The first steps have been made. I believe that we must solve that. I did not know of this reaction, I am hearing it from you now. Certainly, we will also react through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and will give all of our comments once we read their reaction, stated Zaev.
“Don’t be trash” initiative on Saturday will take state administration outside for a clean-up
Over 40.000 employees in the state administration, instead of working off the non-working day of January 2, will be joining the action “Don’t be trash” in cleaning up the capital city on Saturday at noon. Twenty locations in Skopje will be cleaned, among which the area by the Treska Lake, around the Aqueduct, the Kale Fortress, the train station, the Parliament and the entire quay of Vardar. The Public Transportation Enterprise will provide transportation for more remote locations.
Ahmeti: The Law on Languages will be submitted also to the Venice Commission, in order to reduce tensions among Macedonians
DUI leader Ali Ahmeti had known that the Law on Use of Languages would be submitted to the Venice Commission for an opinion and that this had been made in order to reduce tensions among Macedonians.
– At the time when there were discussions about the language, our international friends gave us the opinion that it is good for the law to be sent to the Venice Commission, in order to reduce the tensions and prejudices among Macedonians, stated yesterday Ahmeti.
Grubi: DUI has submitted almost 500 amendments to the Electoral Code
DUI’s parliamentary group has submitted nearly 500 amendments to the drat changes to the Electoral Code, because it considers that the process of one-sided, unilateral changing of the rules of the game before the election processes begin is a dangerous precedence this Parliament would face and the political scene in our country, stated today MP of this party, Artan Grubi.
Kostadinov: VMRO-DPMNE with thousands of amendments are blocking the judicial reforms and electoral processes
The opposition VMRO-DPMNE with thousands of amendments is deliberately blocking the series of laws that are in parliamentary procedure and is working to the harm of citizens, accused SDSM MP and spokesperson Kostadin Kostadinov. He says that this party is against every reform in the judiciary, but also against democratization of the electoral process.
FLASH NEWS
VMRO-DPMNE has submitted around 950 amendments to the draft Law on the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors, announced MP Antonio Milososki from VMRO-DPMNE at today’s press conference.
Maksim Acevski was elected in Parliament as the new Chief State Auditor. All parliamentary parties voted for him after previously having agreed in the Committee on Elections and Appointment Issues. Acevski received 81 votes “for” and none against.
The Government today at a session adopted the amended draft budget for 2020, which will be submitted for the Parliament to adopt. The amended budget, as the government press service announced, contains 12 amendments that the Government adopted, and which emerged from the debate on the budget in the parliamentary committees.
The Ministry of Health announced that the Commission for Infectious Diseases has concluded that epidemiological conditions for declaring end of the measles epidemic on the territory of the entire country have been fulfilled, hence ending the additional control measures for the outbreak proposed by the commission.
The Spanish Parliament will ratify the NATO Protocol by the end of January, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
CIVIL ACTIVITIES
Vulnet Mahmuti, citizen activist, at the Freedom Festival, spoke at the Podium for human rights about his experience and activism in CIVIL.
“I was young, but disappointed from everything that was happening in the country. I thought that nobody cared about the ordinary people and that they would never receive the right to speak and that nobody listened to them… With CIVIL, my confidence returned. I realized that every citizen has the right and the place to give their opinion, and that CIVIL has open doors for everyone… I learned many things in CIVIL, I learned to view things differently, I learned that someone is fighting for the rights of the ordinary citizen and that every ordinary citizen can be a hero of a story, especially with the Civic Lenses seminars and workshops for citizen journalists”, said Mahmuti.
OPINION
Did someone “forgo” Kamcev?
by: SASO ORDANOSKI
Amusingly, Prosecutor Ruskoska, even in the latest statements made yesterday, is stubbornly sticking to her (and Kamcev’s) version of the events, put in a situation for her herself to be denying the statements of the “witness-victim” that can be clearly heard in the recordings (about the GPS device, about the paid investigation stick, about the leaking of the recordings from the Prosecutor’s Office…).
Europe, where have you headed?
by: HUSEIN ADEMI
The awarded negator of the carefully planned genocide in Srebrenica is just proof that something strange is happening in Europe! It’s proof of the dishonouring of the intellectual consciousness at the beginning of the 21st century. With the influx of thousands of migrants who are experiencing casualties on a daily basis as if in a war conflict, with those poor people dying from the cold across the European forests or drowning in the seas south of us, the Nobel Committee is sending a very confusing and unclear message about what awaits us tomorrow!?
Dehran Muratov
in cooperation with: Angela Petrovska, Biljana Jordanovska, Saso Ordanoski, Husein Ademi
Translation: Natasa Cvetkovska
