At today’s joint press conference with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan expressed strong support of the United States for the Prespa Agreement for resolving the dispute. Sullivan highlighted that this is the road that leads to the deserved place in NATO, as Republic of North Macedonia. He expects that the MPs will entirely overcome their party goals and that they will aim towards prosperity of the country by entering EU and NATO.
Nomination
The Prime Ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, are nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for the Prespa Agreement, which overcomes the two-decades long name dispute. The nomination was announced today in Skopje by the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ouidet Bouchamaoui.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Bouchamaoui said that the Prespa Agreement shows that two countries together are capable of sitting down, negotiating and reaching an agreement and that she is honoured to nominate Zaev and Tsipras for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Abolition
The Interparty Reconciliation Body today adopted the draft law on amnesty, with which part of the participants of the April 27 events in Parliament are to be included.
“There will be no amnesty for persons who were organizers of the April 27 events. This includes persons who had carried weapons and masks on their faces, who had carried out violence and officials who had overstepped their authority”, said SDSM MP Frosina Tashevska Remenski after the meeting of the Interparty Reconciliation Body ended.
Constitutional changes
The Parliamentary committee on constitutional changes should start the debate on the constitutional draft amendments today. This is the third and last phase of the procedure for changing the Constitution, in accordance to the Prespa Agreement.
The committee should review the four draft amendments and the Report of the Government from the public discussion on the draft amendments, and then as a second item is the draft constitutional law on implementing the amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia.
AJM
The decision on confirming the legitimacy of the election of the president of the AJM was passed with a consensus of all members of the Board of Directors, while President Mladen Chadikovski was exempted from the voting. At the session, Filjana Koka was nominated and unanimously elected as Vice President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia.
Publication
CIVIL tomorrow will present the publication “Losing identity or…?”, at Hotel City Park, starting at 1.00 pm. The identity and identity issues are always present in the public, academic and political discourse in the world. In Macedonia, these issues are a source of serious political divisions and tensions, especially following the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and Greece in June 2018.
D. Muratov
