Tag: Macedonia

This morning a train left from Gevegelija's processing refugee camp to Tabanovce with approximately 600 migrants. For three days now, the number of migrants arriving here via Greece has reduced. Over the past day and night, three special trains left from Gevgelija to Tabanovce with around 2,200 migrants, while more special trains have not been called for transportation for more migrants. The...

A Macedonian delegation, led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense, Nikola Poposki and Zoran Jolevski  attended an annual meeting in Brussels with the North Atlantic Council at the level of ambassadors of NATO member countries, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The minsters spoke of results the country had achieved results in  political, economic and...

Negotiations at a high level (HLAD) of the Przhino Agreement have come to a dead-end  in terms of the realization of the treaty. "Commissioner Hahn plans to visit the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the 18th of September to oversee the progress and results of the implementation of the political agreement and to see if deadlines are being met....

New way of migrants and refugees, mostly coming from Syria, is expected to reach the Macedonian border to the south. Greek media repored that around 5 in the morning, the ferry Elifterios Venizelos, carrying 2500 migrants, set off from Mitilini to the island of Lesbos. The ferry is expected to reach Piraeus today around 5:40. From the port, the migrants...

The new agreement that will be ratified by the governments of Macedonia and Serbia will determine border procedures of the border crossing at the train line Tabanovce – Preshevo. This was voted today by the parliamentary commission for foreign policy. The decision will see the forming of a new joint-authority zone where the personnel will conduct their duties in order...

About 5000 migrants who entered Macedonia yesterday, left this morning by taxis, buses, minibuses and are reaching Serbia in steady numbers, reports the media from there. Around 2000 migrants have arrived in the reception center in Preshevo, finds out RTS from unofficial information. According to reports, there is a crowd of people in and around the center , but the...

Just few hours after groups of migrants penetrated the police cordon on the Macedonia-Greece border and made their way into the country, the police lifted the blockade and allowed everyone else to enter, report human rights activists and news agencies. Behind the border, in the no-border zone between Greece and Macedonia about 200 people stayed. According to information from the...

A group of migrants penetrated the cordon made of police and army troops. The migrants are moving towards the train station in Gevgelija, reports RTS. RTS’s reporter said the police has fired stun grenades. The migrants are passing through places where there are fewer police and army groops. The Ministry of Interior does not have information regarding other incidents. They added...

The government of Macedonia needs to put a stop to the violence by the police against the emigrants who are on the south border, says in an announcement by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The organization is calling on the government to reconsider yesterday’s use of stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets, one day after the declaration of an emergency...

The situation on the Macedonian-Greek border at Gevgelija is quiet. Around 600 migrants crossed the border during the night and headed to the Tabanovce crossing at the Serbian border with the five o’clock train. The Ministry of Interior reports that they are processing numbers of migrants, according to their capacity, to cross the border. Those who belong to vulnerable categories...

  At least eight people were injured after special police forces used shock-bombs and tear-gas to subdue an unruly crowd of several thousand migrants who are stuck between the borders of Greece and Macedonia, reports the news agency Associated Press, citing information obtained from the Greek police. Foreign agencies are reporting that the crowd of about 3000 people who spent the...

Bulgaria’s Minister of Health Petar Moskov claims that the cases of brucellosis in his country originate from a sickened goat that intended for mating, after it was illegally smuggled there from Macedonia. Bulgarian news portal „Off News“ writes that 23 people have been infected by the disease in the town Rila. Nine new cases were registered over the weekend. -...

Despite the political turmoil in Greece, its Ministry of foreign affairs is planning to continue to intensify the policy of proactive cooperation with Macedonia, directed at improving the relations between the countries and solving the name issue. According to diplomatic circles in Greece, the Greek foreign ministry is considering continuing the activities around the name issue even though there is...

Slovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak, in an interview with Meta, said that there aren’t any guarantees that the Przhino Agreement will be implemented. He added that anything that is opposite from full implementation is equal to a gamble with the country’s European perspective. Which mechanisms guarantee that the Przhino Agreement will be carried out and respected? ...

Macedonia and the Przhino political agreement will be the subject of regular Council of Ministers meeting by chief EU diplomats, today in Brussels. EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, Johannes Hahn, will submit a report about the Agreement to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. The report will be also presented to...