30 November 2023
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his war against Ukraine,during the conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday, writes German news agency DPA. “Stop the unspeakable suffering you are bringing upon millions of people,” the German minister said at the annual meeting […]
30 November 2023
Harsh condemnations of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and Russia’s blockade of the OSCE operations were voiced by the speakers at the beginning of the OSCE Ministerial Council today in Skopje. They sent a message that the Russian aggression against Ukraine violates the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe from […]
30 November 2023
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski before the start of the OSCE Ministerial Council that is held in Skopje, said that he would not meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He noted that each country in its own way sends a message about Russia’s unjustified aggression against Ukraine. Kovachevski hopes that important decisions will […]
29 November 2023
From the address of Pia Kauma, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Photo: Meta.mk Democracy is declining in countries where there is no room for civil society activism. We are witnessing an alarming number of armed conflicts, in the last year we have been witnessing how Russia has been brutal towards Ukraine and destroyed […]
29 November 2023
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 […]
29 August 2022
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 […]
17 July 2020
The numerous debates and talk-shows were mainly used by the participants as platforms for mutual personal criticism, note OSCE/ODIHR’s observers in their report regarding the monitoring of national broadcasters during the election process in North Macedonia. The preliminary report also states that the newscasts of all national broadcasters monitored by the ODIHR SEAM provided superficial […]
16 July 2020
The early parliamentary elections in North Macedonia were generally well run and candidates could campaign freely, but legal stability was undermined by significant revisions to the legal framework and subsequent government decrees, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in a statement today. “This is a very challenging […]
16 May 2019
Looking through the OSCE report, one detail really concerned me – only 2% of women surveyed who have experienced violence at the hands of their partners reported what they considered their most serious incident to the police. We must change this urgently. This was stated by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who together with Minister for […]
8 November 2018
The new US ambassador Kate Marie Byrnes who was proposed by President Donald Trump and whose appointment will have to be confirmed by the Senate is coming from Athens, where she works as the deputy ambassador, and as the US representative to OSCE in Vienna has already commented on events and the situation in the […]
9 October 2018
The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski addressed today at the opening of the regional conference on the subject of “Cyber Security: Cooperation and exchange of information” organized by AEK and OSCE’s office in Macedonia. “Cybersecurity is not only an IT subject. From this point, in order to guarantee the security, the cooperation […]
11 May 2018
The Government is committed to creating space for the media to inform the citizens impartially and objectively. Our goal is MRT to be a completely impartial and independent media outlet, and the regulatory bodies to be transparent, professional and competent. It is especially important the regulatory bodies and the national broadcaster to not have members […]
17 November 2017
For the Association of the Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the idea where the Government will be regulating the media content is absolutely unacceptable, stressed the President of AJN, Naser Selmani, during the meeting with OSCE’s new General Secretary Thomas Greminger, who is visiting the country. “it is contrary to the best practices in the European […]
9 June 2017
At today’s meeting between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with OSCE’s Ambassador, Nina Suomalainen, there were talks about the possibility of OSCE’s mission in Skopje to help with the reformatory processes in the judiciary, media, police, inter-ethnic relations and several other areas, announced the government. During the meeting, the Prime Minister stressed that the new government […]
5 May 2017
The new reformatory government will be formed soon and the newly appointed president of the Parliament will be performing his share of the obligations in order to quicken this process, said DUI’s party leader Ali Ahmeti during the last night’s meeting with the special representative of the SCE’s president, Ambassador Christian Strohal and the OSCE’s […]
4 May 2017
The United States calls on the authorities of Macedonia to take steps to ensure the security of all members of Parliament, to investigate the attacks thoroughly, and to hold accountable those who committed organized or ordered acts of violence, said Kate Byrnes, the Representative of the US Mission to the OSCE at the Permanent Council […]
4 May 2017
There is a possibility that by the end of this month a new government will be formed, in accordance with the deadlines, but it depends on Gjorge Ivanov’s decision as well as the technical preparedness of the Parliament, said SDSM’s party leader, Zoran Zaev after the meeting with OSCE’s representatives in “Holiday In.” He also […]
29 April 2017
The EU delegation in Skopje, the US Embassy, OSCE Mission and the NATO Liaison Office in a joint statement strongly condemned, as they say, the organized attack on Parliament. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the organised attack on the Parliament which took place on 27 April. We express serious concern that the authorities […]
27 April 2017
The chief of OSCE mission in Macedonia, Nina Suomalainen, through its Twitter profile has called upon for stopping the violence at the Parliament, and the police to secure the MPs’ safety. “Tense situation Skopje. Violent acts should be ceased, police need to ensure the safety of parliament & MPs.” wrote Suomalainen on its twitter profile. […]
16 March 2017
Today at the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the Head of the US Mission to the OSCE, Kate Byrnes repeated to Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Poposki, that the US is concerned about the political situation in Macedonia and they are continuing to closely monitor developments. “The United States remains disappointed that President Ivanov declined to […]
