Parliamentary sessions

In the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia today sessions will be held by the Legislative and the Committee on Political Systems and Relations Among the Communities.

On the agenda of the Legislative Committee are amendments to the Law on the Academy for Teachers, to the Law on Primary and Secondary School Teachers, the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance, Law on Audiovisual Goods and amendments to the Law on the State Statistics, all in second reading.

Tomorrow it will be known whether the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia will take away the mandate of the former Prime Minister and now MP, Nikola Gruevski,, who is convicted to two years in prison for the procurement of the Mercedes of about 600.000 euros, in the case “Tank” of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.

The forming of the reconciliation committee, for which the independent parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition for a Better Macedonia submitted and initiative, will be discussed

at the next coordination, probably next Monday. This was agreed at today’s regular coordination of the President of Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, with the Vice Presidents and Coordinators of the parliamentary groups.

Trials

New hearings for the SPO cases “Trevnik”, “Titanic”, and “Violence in the Municipality of Center” are scheduled for today in the Criminal Court in Skopje.

Several people are accused in the “Titanic” case for criminal association and electoral irregularities, among which former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and former Ministers Mile Janakievski and Gordana Jankulovska. For the “Titanic” case, the SPO has proposed over a thousand bombs, and at the hearings so far a little over 700 of the conversations have been heard.

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is to be trialed also for the case “Violence in the Municipality of Center”.

Today the trial will continue in the Criminal Court in Skopje for the events that took place last year in the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia. The case is in the evidence procedure and video material from the security camera in the Parliament are being presented.

For the case “April 27”, 32 more people have been accused, of which 31 for terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order of the state, and two for incitement.

Structural changes in UBK

Today in the conference hall of the Faculty of Security in Skopje a scientific-expert discussion was held on the topic “Reforms in the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence”.

“You cannot be efficient in dealing with the global security threats and risks if you are not constantly working on improving the manner and methods of work. We have formed an inter-ministerial working group that is supposed to offer the most appropriate model for reforms, primarily of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, but also reforms of the Intelligence Agency, as well as other institutions in this area”, highlighted Spasovski at the discussion.

ARM

Senior military officials of the 29 member countries of the NATO Military Committee, led by Deputy Chairman Lieutenant General Steven Shepro, tomorrow and the day after will be paying a historic visit for the first time to the Army of Republic of Macedonia.

International Romani Language Day

The Romani language (Romani chib) and its numerous rich variations was declared the official language of the Roma at the First World Roma Congress that was held in London in 1971. To date, it remains one of the most valuable identifiers and means of communication, socialization and cultural integration for 10-12 million Roma living in Europe.

Of the 25 member states of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, 17 have officially recognized the Roma as a minority language traditionally present on their territory.

Not one of the Roma politicians, MPs, Ministers in Macedonia marked this day.

D. Tahiri