Tag: Ministry of Defense

Krivolak, June 2019, from the drill “Decisive Strike 19”. Photo: mod.gov.mk   The claim that military drills with depleted uranium ammunition – which is carcinogenic – are taking place in the Krivolak military training range has not been confirmed and is not substantiated. This is an intentional speculation, aiming to project a conspiracy theory thereby creating public apprehension. The Ministry of...

The Defense Ministry of North Macedonia will turn its Regional Center for Public Relations (RSPR) into a regional NATO Center for Fighting Fake News and Disinformation. RSPR which is known under its acronym PARC (Public Affairs Regional Centre), since 2013 has been accredited by NATO as a partner center for education and training. "We shall specialize in the spirit of...

For more than a month, around 2,700 troops from six countries will participate in the largest and most complex military exercise ever to be held in Macedonia. Around 1,300 Macedonian and US soldiers, as well as troops from Albania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Montenegro will take part in the "Decisive Strike" exercise at the Krivolak training area from June 5th...

The Ministry of Defense has made corrections to the competition for high school students who were asked to write an essay, in Macedonian and English, titled "NATO and I", marking the occasion of the 70th anniversary since the creation of NATO and before the accession of North Macedonia into the military alliance, reports "Portalb.mk ". The competition initially envisioned the...

The Ministry for Information Society and Administration, Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior- together drafted a working version of the National Strategy for Cyber Security of the Republic of Macedonia. The debate already started in electronic form, by giving proposals, recommendations and commentaries at the electronic address [email protected] and tomorrow the first public event of this process...

On the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government is expected to dismiss Jason Miko from the position of Honorary Consul of Macedonia in Tucson, Arizona, USA, to which he was appointed in 2013, BIRN learns. His engagement with VMRO-DPMNE's government included consulting services for which he was paid from the state budget. BIRN came across two agreements...

The NATO Secretary General's visit to Macedonia, Jens Stoltenberg is a message in itself, said Minister of Defense Radmila Šekerinska on the occasion of Stoltenberg's visit to Macedonia on Wednesday and Thursday. “This means that in the past six months, we managed to bring Macedonia back to the Euro-Atlantic path and managed to neutralize all the bad news, which have...

The Ministry of Defense is considering increasing the participation of the Macedonian Army (ARM) in peacekeeping operations, said Defense Minister Zoran Jolevski, during a visit to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Jolevski’s host, reports the MoD, was Hervé Ladsous, UN Undersecretary and the Head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. "At the meeting,...