Tags Bombs
Tag: bombs
Peter Vanhoutte: We have managed to overcome most difficulties, and we are making good progress
Belgian mediator Peter Vanhouttet in today's statement in front of the MPs Clubhouse said he was not pessimistic as he had been a few hours before hand and that the participants in the talks were engaged and constructive.
“We have managed to overcome most difficulties, and we are making good progress”, said Peter Vaahoutte.
He added that the law on the criminal...
Kocijancic: The law was withdrawn, and parties quickly need to come to an agreement for the electoral reforms
Today, the European Commission urged the political parties in Macedonia to reach an agreement on the electoral laws as soon as possible.
“The Commission understands the fact that the parties failed to reach agreement on electoral reform, but negotiations will continue today. The Commission will closely monitor developments and expect parties to reach an agreement as soon as possible”, said...
Orav: Negotiations are continuing, and there is progress
Today at the Clubhouse for MP's, the Head of the EU Delegation Ambassador Aivo Orav said that the working groups had agreed on two laws, whistle-blowers and the disclosure of the "Bombs" were to be reworked.
“Negotiations are continuing, there is progress and I expect we will achieve an agreement by tonight”, said Ambassador Orav.
Currently at the Clubhouse of MP's...
Zaev: Xhaferi blatantly lies, he brokered the law, but not for this kind
"The legal decision to prohibit the publication of the "Bombs” is a catastrophe, it's censorship! Many citizens reacted to this yesterday, this is non-existent even in the harshest of regimes”, said the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, at today's debate on the draft program called" Vision of Macedonia ".
According to him, the talks also focused on this matter to be...
AJM: The law needs to be urgently removed as it promotes censorship
The Association of Journalists strongly condemns the attempt to introduce a censorship bill prohibiting the publication and possession of wire-tapped materials in Parliament yesterday afternoon, filed by MP's from the ruling parties, VMRO-DPMNE and DUI, and it requires an immediate withdrawal from parliamentary procedure. They said that this was an outrageous proposal and instead of the expected improvement of...
Deadline passes and still no agreement on Electoral Laws
Last nights meeting between working groups concluded with no agreement on electoral laws, "Meta" has learnt from sources within the negotiating teams.
Despite efforts from Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte, US Ambassador Jess Bailey and the Head of the EU Delegation to Macedonia, Ambassador Aivo Orav, neither side would succumb their positions on the law prohibiting the material of the intercepted...
The law banning the “Bombs” is already on its second reading!
The bill to ban the publications of the"bombs" of the opposition which was uploaded to the website of the Assembly have already been immediately moved onto a second reading, although the draft-bill has just been announced today.
The Parliament said that the bill will be taken through a shortened procedure because the first reading was overlooked and it went directly...
SDSM will walk out on negotiations if the bill passes as law to ban publications from the “Bombs”
If the bill banning the publication of the "bombs" is passed in Parliament as law, SDSM will leave the negotiating table, sources told "Meta" from the negotiating process.
Currently, negotiators from the political parties of the working groups who are on a break, facilitator Peter Vanhoutte, US Ambassador Jess Bailey, Head of the EU Delegation in Skopje, Aivo Orav, held bilateral meetings with...
Trajanovski: Ridiculous and transparent attempt to excuse themselves
For human rights expert ZarkoTrajanovski the law which prohibits the publication of the "bombs" in his opinion, is ridiculous and is a transparent attempt by a criminal gang to impose censorship and to excuse themselves, from the tangled situation they find themselves in.
“The same gang responsible for the mass illegal wire-tapping of thousands of people, who in 2010 legally allowed the...
Najcevska about the law on the “Bombs”: I haven’t heard such nonsense in my life
According to Professor Mirjana Najcevska, the newly drafted law that prohibits the publication of "bombs" is just foolishness.
“I haven't heard such nonsense in my life. Whenever I think I've seen an heard all the nonsense from VMRO-DPMNE and their friends in DUI, they always managed to pleasantly surprise me with more and even bigger immature stupidity.
It's like proposing a...
VMRO-DPMNE and DUI wants to ban all materials from the “Bombs” with a new law
The ruling parties DUI and VMRO-DPMNE will propose a bill that will ban all materials published from the intercepted phone conversations. This was said at a press conference in Parliament by Talat Xhaferi, the coordinator of the Parliamentary group, DUI.
As stated by Mr Xhaferi, from DUI, if the bill is passed, anyone caught breaking this new law will be criminally...
The Special Public Prosecutor has put her team together, and now awaits the Council of Prosecutors for their blessing
Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, today at a press conference said she had compiled a team of public prosecutors who will help in resolving allegations of the content in the recordings of the "bombs" from the opposition, reports "Nova TV".
Janeva said she will propose the names of 14 prosecutors to the Council of Public Prosecutors who will be part...
Zaev: If ‘Monster’, ‘Kumanovo’, ‘Telekom’ and Boshkovski are mentioned in the ‘bombs’ Janeva will review it
The leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev say's he will not exclude the possibility that the Special Prosecutor may review the cases, "Kumanovo", "Monster", "Magyar Telekom" and the case of the leader of political party, United for Macedonia, Ljube Boshkovski's.
Zoran Zaev, responding to a reporter's question, today said that the jurisdiction of the special prosecutor will cover all topics mentioned in...
British Embassy: A full investigation is needed regarding the intercepted audio recordings
Allegations stemming from wiretapped conversations are serious and merit a full and transparent investigation, So said, a statement from the United Kingdom's Embassy concerning a Macedonian Court's decision from preliminary hearings which ruled the wiretapped conversations as inadmissible evidence. The British Ambassador, while not commenting on specifics of the preliminary hearings but did say that any investigation should be...
International opinion expresses support for special prosecutor
In a statement released by the Basic Court Skopje 1 defending the court's decision made at the preliminary hearing stage, Judges have complained that they felt pressurized into commenting on the decision reached in the preliminary hearing, by repeated and aggressive media coverage which questioned the Court's findings. The Judges are dismayed that the same media did not give...
The prosecution appeals decision to suspend “bombs”
The Public Prosecutor's Office, despite the expiry of the deadline, have appealed the decision made by the judge from the previous court proceedings to declare the evidence recordings of intercepted conversations released by the opposition as invalid.
Basic Court Skopje 1 today announced that the Public Prosecutor's Office appealed against "21 decisions from the preliminary procedure where the judge decided...
The court defends its ruling over the oppositions ‘bombs’
After the dilemma, which unfolded in the media and discussed by the experts over whether the judge of the previous procedure was permitted to intervene and declare the oppositions "bombs" invalid as evidence while the case is still in its early stages. The Basic Court Skopje 1 say that the judge's decision is legal at this stage...
US Embassy: Government and other parties not to sabotage the appointing of a special prosecutor
In a Press Release from its Embassy in Skopje, the USA today "urged the government, all political parties and the peoples of Macedonia to refrain from any actions that could interfere with appointment of a Special Prosecutor, and the abilities of this office to act with complete autonomy, as decreed in the the Agreements of June 2nd and July...
Kocijancic: EC does not comment in early stages of court proceedings
The European Commission expects all court proceeding in the country to be conducted with the utmost respect of the principles of national and international law and in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights, said for 'Meta' Maya Kocijancic, spokeswoman for Commissioner Johannes Hahn.
Kocijanchich did not want to comment on yesterday's decision by the Basic Court of Skopje 1,...
Dimovski: The Public Prosecutor and the courts and independent
“Yesterday’s meeting of the Action group was number seven. At the previous meetings, SDSM representatives would show up and immediately leave or they didn’t come at all. The reason why the public hasn’t been informed about those meetings was to ensure there would be a better quality of discussion,” was the statement given by VMRO-DPMNE MP Ilija Dimovski, reports...
