Tag: Ohrid Framework Agreement

1 49 public administrative workers who were hired according to the Framework Agreement will be allocated in 237 state and local self-government agencies in North Macedonia, and if they refuse thе offered job position, they will be put to the transfer list of the Ministry of Information Society and Administration. If they refuse to work there, their agreement will...

At yesterday's 108th session, the Government adopted the final texts of the amendments to the Constitution and immediately passed them on to Parliament. Amendment 33 reads as follows: "In the Constitution, the words" Republic of Macedonia " will be replaced by the words "Republic of North Macedonia ", and the word "Macedonia" shall be replaced with the words "North Macedonia", except...

Through an inclusive and transparent process, the Government has drafted four draft amendments to amend the Constitution in accordance with the Prespa Agreement, announced Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at a the press conference in Government. "The first amendment will be the replacement of the name Macedonia, with Northern Macedonia throughout the Constitution, except for Article 36, where there is a...

Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that there is no need to further open Pandora's Box, while commenting on moves made by the Albanian opposition - the BESA wing led by Bilal Kasami and the Albanian Alliance, who submitted draft amendments to the Constitution that will result in Macedonia strictly being defined as a civil state, and the Albanian...

Employees receiving salaries under the Ohrid Framework Agreement, and do not attend the workplace, will be deployed in jobs other than public administration, but will also receive offers of work throughout the public sector, for example, in schools, kindergartens, health facilities and public enterprises, stated Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski. He went on to explain that the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, reiterated Macedonia yesterday, stating that Moscow is "concerned about the EU's passivity with regard to the initiative coming from Tirana about the “Tirana platform” which, as he said, is "an explicit call for creating a Greater Albania". “There are enough examples which give...

American President Donald Trump asked Congress to extend the validity for the so called “threat against national interests to the USA” from the region of the West Balkans, a document which was adopted in June, 2001, by George W. Bush. The document covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia and it stipulates that these countries still pose a threat from...

"Here is new confirmation that Nikola Gruevski is behind the revision of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. This is a document from the Government, an analysis of the Framework Agreement”, Peter Shilegov accuses Nikola Gruevski at a press conference in front of the Government building. Conference for the Framework Agreement “According to this document, the General Secretary of the Government asked it...

DUI's Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister for implementing the Ohrid Framework Agreement Musa Xhaferi before the PMs Clubhouse said they were continuing the debate on the Ohrid Agreement. As Xhaferi had told the meeting which had been attended by representatives of political parties, University Professors and representatives from various NGOs who work in that field. “There are different opinions concerning the...

"In Macedonia there is no unity between political parties to the Framework Agreement. Which party hires more people, wins the elections”, said Deputy Prime Minister Musa Xhaferi, in charge of implementing the Framework Agreement at today's conference on the agreement in Skopje. “The words "free and fair elections" lost meaning in this country”, said Mr Xhaferi.

In the coming months, until the New Year, various political working groups will undertake an in-depth study and analysis of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Information and results will be announced at an international conference due to organised in December. This was the outcome of today’s conference on the Framework Agreement, which was attended, among others, by Macedonian Deputy Prime...

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of implementing the Ohrid Framework Agreement Musa Xhaferi, at tomorrow's press conference will announce several steps that must be taken to fully implement the Framework Agreement. This was today's topic entered at the last minute at the request of Albanian party DUI into negotiations between the working groups from the Przhino Agreement, 'Meta' discovered. At the...

Before the start of today's negotiations in the Przhino Agreement, the agenda of the meeting was changed, namely, at the request of DUI. The working groups are now scheduled to discuss the implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement "Meta" has discovered. Caught by surprise by the changes were the negotiators who were told on the spot of the new...

Today is the 14 year anniversary of the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA). The conclusion of the agreement that was signed by then-president Boris Trajkovski, the presidents of Macedonian political parties, representatives of the EU and the United States, experts and advisors- put an end on the armed conflict in 2001. “This Framework agreement will promote the peaceful and...