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Reeker and Hahn on an official visit to Skopje on Thursday and Friday

24/07/2019 11:13

Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations plans to visit Skopje on Thursday. Commissioner Hahn will meet with President Stevo Pendarovski, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski. According to the official agenda, discussions will focus on ongoing EU-related reforms and expectations for October date for start of EU accession negotiations. …

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Kate Byrnes wants one thing, VMRO-DPMNE another

24/07/2019 11:09

Not even the latest statement by US Ambassador to the country, Kate Byrnes, who demanded for the capabilities of the SPO to be preserved and to support a strong and independent prosecutor’s office, didn’t get through to the opposition, which believe that this prosecution, such as it is, is compromised and ruined and cannot survive …

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Zaev: Gruevski and his propaganda, not Macedonians, appropriated neighbors’ history

22/07/2019 22:38

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev wrote in Facebook post that he has spoken on many occasions about the abuse of history for political aims and that the former authorities had conflicted the country with all neighbors through its antiquity attempt, keeping it in isolation for a decade. “I often speak about the abuse of …

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Is North Macedonia heading to political crisis?

22/07/2019 10:45

Political analysts in Skopje say the country is heading to political crisis and they don’t rule out the possibility of a snap election. Tensions in the country have grown following the scandal relating to suspicions for the involvement of the head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, Katica Janeva in an extortion case. PM Zoran Zaev …

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Pendarovski: I don’t intend to pardon Zaev if he committed crimes

21/07/2019 12:41

North Macedonia’s head of state Stevo Pendarovski, in an interview with Radio Free Europe, says that he is committed to reconciliation, a long process involving many political and social stakeholders. On VMRO-DPMNE’s remarks that the head of state perceives reconciliation as amnesty for Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his associates, Pendarovski says he does not …

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PM Zaev cancels leaders’ meeting

19/07/2019 16:45

Meeting of political leaders in North Macedonia cancelled Government in North Macedonia announced today that the meeting which was scheduled to take place during the course of the day had been cancelled due to the absence of the leader of the largest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. Government sources declared that they do not concede …

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Ruskoska: Zaev was the first to inform us about the “Racket” case

18/07/2019 13:19

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was the first to inform me that businessmen had complained of being blackmailed, says Vilma Ruskoska, head of the prosecutor’s office for organized crime and corruption. “The PM informed me and the Chief Public Prosecutor and said he was prepared to come and press criminal charges on record. However, we advised …

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Zaev: El Cheka will be held responsible

17/07/2019 16:23

The Ministry of Interior is working on the case, we have also turned to partners-allies, where these illegally wiretapped conversations are released from, and the public prosecutor’s office is carrying out its own investigation, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on the materials released on Facebook by the person known as El Cheka. Zaev is convinced …

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Zaev to Mickoski: I don’t intend to grant wishes for early elections

17/07/2019 14:02

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev yet again called VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Hristijan Mickoski to attend the leaders’ meeting on Friday, saying it would take place regardless of the opposition leader’s decision. “I am prepared to talk on what Mickoski insists. We might not agree on all issues, but we need to talk first. We are …

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Zaev: I did not talk to Katica Janeva before her phone was confiscated

17/07/2019 12:51

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Wednesday he had not talked over the phone with Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva prior to the confiscation of her cell phone. Regarding the “Racket” extortion case, there have been media reports that Janeva spoke to a former senior diplomat and Government official before the seizure of her phone. …

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PM Zaev calls for a leaders’ meeting

15/07/2019 14:07

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev called for a leaders’ meeting in the MPs Club on Friday. He directed the invitation to VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Hristijan Mickoski, DUI’s Ali Ahmeti and Alliance for Albanians’ Zijadin Sela. According to Prime Minister Zaev, the meeting would focus on a new Electoral Code and a new electoral model, the …

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Vucic: Zaev apologized for calling me a “man of Russia” in the prank calls

15/07/2019 12:41

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says Prime Minister Zoran Zaev apologized to him in a text message after the emergence of the conversations with the Russian pranksters, in which he said that Vucic was a “man of Russia”. “He sent me an apology through a text message. What can I say, am I a man of …

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Zaev: We expect strategic partnership with Greece to continue

14/07/2019 12:41

Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev says he expects strategic partnership and good neighbourly relations with Greece to continue even after the arrival of a new government in this country. Zaev stated this last evening in a televised interview. He said that the new Greek PM, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is careful with the Prespes Agreement. …

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Zaev: No deal yet with Mickoski over SPO, census and electoral code

12/07/2019 17:28

There’s no agreement yet for a leaders’ meeting with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to discuss three issues – the Special Public Prosecution, census and the Electoral Code, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The Prime Minister said he expected a leaders’ meeting to be scheduled soon. “If the opposition and other stakeholders have other issues that …

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Zaev: Friendship with Russia certainly continues

11/07/2019 17:40

North Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev said on Thursday that he had met with Russian Ambassador to Skopje Sergey Bazdnikin at the Government, and the two agreed that the case with the Russian pranksters wouldn’t affect bilateral relations and cooperation. “Friendship with Russia certainly continues. It’s our duty to strengthen and enhance it. We’re working on …

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Thaci reacts following hoax calls made by two Russian comedians to Zaev

11/07/2019 12:56

Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci delivered a news conference today where he commented the prank call made by two Russian comedians to North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Thaci’s name and plans for the partition of Kosovo are mentioned in this conversation. President Thaci said that PM Zaev has called him and explained to him that …

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Zaev: These pranks are a private arrangement not an act by the Russian Federation

11/07/2019 12:45

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday he has talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Bazdnikin and will meet him as part of their regular communication, not related to the recent phone conversation with the Russian pranksters who posed as former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We are in regular …

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Anyone that wants to talk to Zaev will be checked

11/07/2019 12:39

The government is preparing a new protocol for secure communication after the prank with the duo of Russian comedians, who have talked to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev over the phone on several occasions, posing as Petro Poroshenko (Ukraine’s former President) and Jens Stoltenberg (NATO Secretary General). The document is under preparation, but experts involved in …

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Jokes that did not make the Government laugh

10/07/2019 12:38

I was the victim of a prank by a well-organized structure, which benefits from new tactics, forms, and tools in an attempt to publicly discredit people and countries with Euro-Atlantic aspirations. I will not resign, and there is neither any fault in my team. I was tricked by frauds, but I represented the interests of …

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Zaev: I was the victim of a prank by a well-organized structure

09/07/2019 14:39

Anti-NATO structures stand behind the phone conversations, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev commented on the audio posted on YouTube by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, adding that they want to threaten the country’s strategic goal to join the Alliance. Some of the audio has been edited and taken out of context, PM Zaev said, and some …

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