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80% of Heads of Macedonian diplomatic outposts will be career diplomats
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has prepared the draft law for foreign affairs that defines the criteria for selecting ambassadors i.e. it determines that out of the total number of heads of diplomatic outposts at least 80% should be chosen from the ranks of career diplomats.
"For an extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador i.e. a general consul can be appointed...
The company Eco Centar 97 will be fined 1.500 euros for spilling the poison at Ohis plant
The company Eco Centar 97 was fined 3.000 euros for spilling waste liquid i.e. water mixed with methyl acrylate monomer in the yard of the former chemical plant Ohis, informs the State Inspectorate for Living Environment, but if it pays the fine in a period of 8 days it will be decreased to 1.500 euros.
"The fine for this...
Three offers received at the tender for the building of the highway from Skopje to Blatze but the works will start next spring
Macedonian construction companies Granit and Beton including the Bulgarian construction company ISA 2000 are interested in building the first phase of the highway Skopje - Blatze. The Public Enterprise for State Roads confirmed for Meta.mkm that the during the second tender three offers were received and they were opened on the 29th of November.
-At the moment the received...
The railway companies of Macedonia and Turkey held talks about introducing a new line from Skopje to Thessaloniki and Istanbul
The Macedonian and Turkish Railway companies are in the middle of talks about the possibility of introducing a tourist train from Istanbul via Thessaloniki to Skopje. As informs the Macedonian railways, the director Orhan Murtezani was having talks on this subject during the meeting with the General Manager of Turkish Railways (TCDD) that took place by the end...
Macedonian Government accepts seven requests by Marching for Clean Air environmentalists
Two days before the expiration of the deadline that the Government was given by the organizers of the environmental protest, the Government issued a press release that states that it accepts the first seven requests of the "Marching for Clean Air".
As Meta.mk informed previously, after the environmentalists initially rejected the government's offer for negotiations, the 30 environmental...
The Parliament will set new voting records before New Year’s Eve
On the 11th of December the MPs will have full schedule since this they will have to press the voting button 51 times as taken into account the number of topics in the agenda at the Parliamentary session scheduled for that day.
The session's agenda consists of topics such as draft-laws, appointment of officials, ratification of international agreements, financial...
Environmentalists condition the Macedonian government: Firstly solve a part of the problems and then we shall meet at Vardarishte landfill
The civic initiatives united under the banner of "Green Revolution" in a reply to the invitation sent by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev for a meeting in the aftermath of the past Friday's massive protest against the air pollution, on the 29th of November stated that in this moment the only available space for meetings with government representatives is available...
Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on a new law in order to modernize and reform the diplomatic service
The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is preparing a draft law on foreign affairs that will determine the authority, organization and the scope of the ministry.
"The goal of the new law is to reform the diplomatic service towards modernization and professionalization, and drawing it near the modern European diplomatic services" informs the press release about the preparation...
Macedonian government takes a new loan in order to build the highway from Kichevo to Ohrid
With the change of subcontractors and the redesigning of those segments that showed as left out or impossible for building, the highway between Kichevo and Ohrid was yesterday approved by the Parliament for a new loan by the state in the amount of 180 million dollars in order to finish the road in the length of 57 km. ...
Macedonian President Pendarovski calls on all to protect natural resources and to create a healthy living environment
The climate change isn't a process that will await us in the future but is our reality today, that influences our quality of life, health, economic processes the infrastructure. We the politicians have an obligation to actively work on the creation of a healthier living environment said the Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski during his speech at the conference titled:...
The City of Skopje lacks 8.000 parking lots and the company that runs the parking lots lacks funds to invest in garages
At the moment, the City of Skopje lacks 8.000 parking lots in order to solve the problem with the parking of vehicles, but the Gradsko Parking enterprise doesn't have enough funds to invest in the building of either montage or multistore garage parks that would help in overcoming this lack of parking spaces.
The Public enterprise Gradski parking -...
The Macedonian Vice Prime Minister states that the building of the interconnector towards Greece is important because of the good offer for gas
The Vice Prime Minister of Economic Affairs Kocho Angjushev who took part in the Summit in Thessaloniki said that it is important for us to build the interconnector towards Greece so we can connect to TAP's gas pipeline and LNG's terminals that are located on the banks of the Aegean sea.
"Now we are connected through one point for...
The costs of building the railway line to Albania will rise if the project is redesigned
The workgroup for acting upon UNESCO's objections at the moment is working upon draft solutions or the railway connection between Macedonia and Albania. The government informed Meta.mk that the final solution for the way of the railway line from Kichevo - Lin will be in accordance with UNESCO's recommendations.
-The draft-solutions contain ecological measures including international environmental standards that...
Zaev: The gas pipeline from Skopje, Tetovo to Gostivar will be over during 2020
The building of the gas pipeline from Skopje, to Tetovo and Gostivar, in length of 76 km is underway and will be completely over in 2020, informed Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after the 165 government session was over.
"With this project worth 29 million euros we shall bring gas to citizens and companies in Gostivar and Tetovo which will...
The country didn’t have any authority over other dangerous chemicals at the property of the privately owned Ohis factory but the lindane
Apart from the lindane, the Ministry of Environment wasn't involved in the process of cleansing of any other dangerous chemicals at the Ohis' property since the former chemical giant is now privately owned. This was stated today at the press conference by the Minister of Environment Naser Nuredini after Friday's incident when an unknown quantity of methyl acrylate monomer...
Nuredini: The Ohis lindane tender didn’t fail but it’s deadline was extended
The international lindane tender didn't fail, but its application deadline was extended until the 16th of December by UNOPS in order to provide more time for more companies to provide more interest to participate on the tender, informed today the Minister of Environment Naser Nuredini. We expect that we shall be presented with innovative ideas for cleaning and remedying...
The center of Skopje lacks at least 4.000 parking lots
In the center of Skopje, there is a significant demand for parking lots compared to the capacity of the current parking spaces. In the areas that it manages, POC has noticed a lack of 4.030 parking lots.
This enterprise stated for Meta.mk that they are managing with 5.173 parking lots on all open and closed parking spaces. The number...
Deadline for lindane removal is extended until the 16th of December
On request of the offerers, the international tender that was announced on the 15th of October for а selection of technology for the removal of the lindane waste and its isomers from the yard of the OHIS factory in Skopje, that should have ended on the 11th this month, has been extended until the 16th of December, this year....
In the midst of high air pollution the problems with the sewage are quickly forgotten
During the period when the general public is preoccupied with the air pollution, it seems that the new data provided by the State Statistic Office go unnoticed about the problem with the sewage discharge which indicates that in our country they are discharged unfiltered into the rivers and nature.
Out of 110 million cubic meters of sewage, 80 million...
Speculations and falsehoods said the Ministry of Environment about the accusations of waste being imported for burning
"Speculations and falshoods" was the answer that the Ministry of Environment provided for the increased sharing of information, photographs and suspicions on social networks about cases of importin, burning and storing dangerous waste from abroad and connecting these cases with the enormous air pollution that is happening each winter.
According to a widely shared information, a dangerous waste was...
