Pilot census ends
The pilot census of the population and households was successfully carried out in the past 15 days in 13 municipalities of the country. The Draft Law on the Census remains closed in a parliamentary drawer. It is not known when the Committee debate for the draft law will be scheduled, because the first session of the Committee was postponed overnight after the announcements for a boycott by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE.
The pilot census was carried out in 13 municipalities in the country from mid-month until yesterday. The Director of the State Statistical Office, Apostol Simovski, says that the application solution functions well and that he hopes there won’t be any problems in the conducting of the main census.
The main census should be held in April 2020 – but it is ever more uncertain with the draft law stuck in parliamentary drawers.
Ministry of Justice still waiting on VMRO-DPMNE for resolving the fate of the SPO
The Ministry of Justice is still waiting for the proposal on the new law for the Special Prosecutor’s Office announced by the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Misckoski. The Ministry of Justice will accept only improvements to the legal solutions, but not if it contains any indications for amnesty.
VMRO-DPMNE, on the other hand, says that the Law on the SPO will also be aligned with European law and the recommendations and practices of the European Court of Human Rights.
Ohrid will be discussed at a session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Baku
The 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee – UNESCO will be held today in Baku – Azerbaijan, where the situation with the natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid Region will be discussed.
A delegation of the RNM will participate at the session, with Minister without portfolio Edmond Ademi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrej Zernovski and the Mayor of Ohrid, Konstantin Georgievski. During the session of the Committee, there will be meetings with high representatives of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, with delegations of member countries, among which also China, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the President of the Committee, Abulfas Garayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Culture.
JSP is returning singe ride paper bus tickets
As of September, paper bus tickets for a single ride will once again be able to be bought in the busses of the Public Transportation Company JSP – Skopje and the privately-owned. Currently, JSP is carrying out the tender procedure for the procurement of 300.000 paper electronic tickets, which are adequate to the existing system for payment in the public transportation, writes Meta.
“Monster” and “Vault” and “Violence in the Municipality of Center” continue today
The trial for the case “Monster” for the murder of five people at the Smilkovsko Lake is to continue today in the Criminal Court.
The previous hearing was postponed due to the lack of presence of two witnesses, for whom police detention was also requested.
For the murder of five people at the Smilkovsko Lake on April 12, 2012, when Kire Trickovski, Filip Slavkovski, Cvetanco Atkovski, Aleksandar Nakjevski and fisherman Borce
Stefanovski were killed, Alil Demiri, Afrim and Agim Ismailovic, Ezim and Haki Aziri and Sami Ljuta were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Two new vaccines for children are introduced as of today
Vaccination with two new vaccines for the rotavirus and pneumococcal begins today, which the Ministry of Health introduced in the regular immunization schedule for babies and children, and which the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, announced several months ago.
The greatest percentage of children who have received the vaccine against the rotavirus are protected. The vaccine is administered orally in three doses, by putting drops in the mouth of the child, from the age of six weeks to the age of 32 weeks. The first dose of the vaccine should be given before the child turns 15 weeks, while all three doses of the vaccine should be given before the child turns eight months.
Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office with charges against seven people for the traffic accident near Laskarci
The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office Skopje announced that they have filed an indictment for the bus accident near Laskarci on February 13 this year, in which there, and later at the hospital, 16 people lost their lives and 38 were injured. The bus had not been technically in order, which was skived, and the working hours had also not been respected, stated the prosecutor’s office.
It has been requested for the house arrest to be replaced with prison detention for the driver of the bus, the owner, the responsible person for the transportation in the company “Durmo tours”, as well as for three employees in the Station for technical examination of vehicles, which is owned by the same person.
Merkel: The Western Balkan countries are our European neighbours and have a European perspective
The Western Balkan countries are our European neighbours and have a European perspective, stated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the occasion of the upcoming summit for this region within the Berlin process, which will be held in Poznan, Poland.
“The road is still full of stones”, pointed out the German Chancellor, reported “Tanjug”.
A conference on the Western Balkans will be held in Poznan on Friday (July 5), which will also be attended by Merkel, at whose initiative the Berlin process was initiated in 2014, with
the purpose to improve opportunities for dialogue and cooperation among the countries of the region.
Finland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union
As of today, Finland takes over the rotating six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Finland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Romania, and on January 1, 2020 will hand it over to Croatia.
The Council of the EU is a body that gathers the ministers of the member states and meets for various policy areas, from agriculture to external and internal issues.
The member state that presides for a period of six months holds all the meetings of the EU Council, except the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, which is presided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the EU.
Angela Petrovska
