Tag: Бујар Османи

Bujar Osmani, the current Chairman of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, said today that the Russian Federation is a factor of destabilization in the Western Balkans region. Unlike the US and EU support for N.Macedonia and the entire region, Russia does not play the identical role in the Western Balkans, he said. “The Russian Federation...

Photo Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and North Macedonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani welcomed the decision that paves the way for Malta to become the next chairman of the OSCE in 2024, which overcame the crisis faced by the organization and represents a significant success for our chairmanship...

We were witnesses to an intensive and dynamic period with a plethora of occurrences in the domain of foreign policy on all levels, from global and European, to regional occurrences, and especially occurrences domestically, which left no one indifferent. Still, these were historical decisions that provided a certain insight into directions where our foreign policy is heading, but also...

The inclusion of the Bulgarian and other nations living on the territory of North Macedonia in the Constitution, the acceleration of the work of the Historical Committee, fighting hate speech, a celebration of joint historical events and persons, changing content in history and geography books, these are some of the articles in the Protocol that was signed yesterday by...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, in an interview with Portalb.mk says that disinformation and propaganda are tools of war and that the Government treats them as such. He says that the state has difficulties in preventing the daily mass penetration of disinformation in the creation of public opinion. According to him, the fight against...

After Bulgaria and Romania, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday commented on Macedonia’s membership in NATO. Instead of “North Macedonia”, in the answers to the questions of the program “Weekly Time” on the state Russian television “First Channel”, he named the country as “Macedonia”. Asked about NATO’s enlargement with new member states and whether it was possible to talk about...

The first group of 149 Afghani nationals arrived at the International airport in Skopje late last night. Immediately upon arrival, a pregnant woman with her husband and child were transported to the University Clinic of Gynecology in Skopje for checkup while another emergency vehicle was used for transporting a person that collapsed. The Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani, who greeted...

Bujar Osmani, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) informed that the headcount of the diplomatic service ends today, but the online census of the RNM nationals living abroad continues. The number of registered people who live in the diaspora has exceeded 60.000, and most of the people registered live in Switzerland - 16.000, Germany...

The Government has three conditions under which it will fully subsidize the social security contributions for the employees at various media outlets, television, radio broadcasters, printed media, and Internet portals. This was stressed at today's press conference by the Deputy Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and the Minister for Communications, Accountability, and Transparency, Robert Popovski. The first condition...

Three months since the first COVID_19 case was registered in North Macedonia, and with well over 2.000 infected and 116 deceased, the Government has decided, starting from tomorrow (27.05.2020) to lift the curfew. The curfew was imposed more than two months ago, on the 22nd of March. During today's press conference at the Government, the Health Minister Venko Filipche said...

The Secretariat for European Affairs will help the Institute for Public Health to increase its capacities for testing and improving the working conditions, informed the Secretariat. The goal is to relax the restrictive measures as soona s possible. "The need to increase the testing capacities will be extremely important now when the Government is already debating about a package...

During today's meeting with the Director of the Public health Center in Skopje, Arben Ziberi, Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani expressed his stance that is is time to implement softer measures compared to previous ones. -It's time to replace the curfew and the closure of business with for a smarter combination of softer measures - said Osmani as...

The Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived with a special military cargo airplane that transported packages with aid consisting of 1000.000 face masks and 5.000 overalls for medical personnel. "Macedonia and Hungary have a great bilateral cooperation and today's support is a proof of that. In these scary times when each country fights to secure assets for...

Macedonia is starting the EU accession negotiations, said today the Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski. He said that the EU General Committee has reached a consensus that our country has to start the EU membership negotiations as soon as possible. "The verification of our efforts, capacities and political will of our institutions to implement the reforms that were set...

I want to inform you about an extremely positive news that arrived late last night from Brussels. The Council of Permanent representatives (Coreper) has reached a consensus about a decision to start the accession negotiations with Republic of North Macedonia, unconditionally. We expect this to be confirmed, and on the 24th of March, on part of the European ministers...

The European Commission (EC) adopted the mini report about Macedonia and Albania that confirms Macedonia's confirmation for starting the accession negotiations with the EU. The Commission stresses that Macedonia has strengthened its efforts and has delivered tangible and sustainable results from key areas identified in the Council of EU's conclusions dated from June 2018. The EC greeted the passing...

Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani had the first official meeting with the newly appointed Ambassador of Portugal in Macedonia, Maria Virgínia Mendes da Silva Pina. The central subject of the meeting were the challenges related to the European integrations, and with the EU Summit in March, towards the potential start of the EU accession negotiations...

In an interview for the Austrian Presse, President Stevo Pendarovski stated that he is not hoping for a signal but he expects a decision for granting a starting date for the EU accession negotiations. In order to reach this goal, the country has changed its name, which no other country candidate has ever done before. -We are not hoping...

The hearts and minds of citizens of North Macedonia should be leading the state forward, and not Russian bots on social media. I would like to warn you as well as about China's involvement in the area of sensitive technologies and their strategy of bribery when securing deals. At the UN, President Trump said that the future belongs to...

The Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani is currently visiting Berlin where he has met with the MP of the German Bundestag, Christian Petri of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. At the meeting, Osmani and Petri spoke about the support for the decision for starting Macedonia's accession negotiations with the European Union for which a final...