Tag: State Department

The US Department of State blacklisted the former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Sasho Mijhalkov, the former Director of UBK (Home Security and Counterintelligence Administration of the Republic of Macedonia), in response to their participation in major corruption processes in the Republic of Macedonia (now Republic of North Macedonia). This effectively bans them from entering the US. In...

The US State Department approved yesterday the sale of 54 Stryker light armored vehicles to the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia - ARM, informs the Defense Ministry of North Macedonia and the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The sale is part of the larger take on the modernization of ARM, in which the Stryker infantry carrier vehicles...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer is scheduled to pay a visit to the Republic of Macedonia on Monday, announced the US Embassy via their social networks. "Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer will arrive in Macedonia on Monday, October 22, to discuss US support for the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and...

"We firmly support the full implementation of the Prespa Agreement," said a US State Department official replying to a question from the portal "Real.gr" in Washington, on the US position on Panos Kammenos's plan B, which was allegedly presented at his meeting with Wess Mitchell. "We are not publicly announcing the details of our personal diplomatic talks, but the position...

The US State Department welcomed the EU Council's decision to propose a plan for opening accession negotiations with Macedonia and Albania in June 2019 and once again confirms the importance of the agreement reached with Greece. In a statement for MIA, the State Department said that the EU's plan depends on further progress in certain areas. "The Council's decision highlights the...

The US supports the historic Prespa Agreement and congratulates the Greek leadership on its achievement, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting in Washington with Alternate Greek Foreign Minister George Katrougalos. Katrougalos met with the UN mediator in the name talks Matthew Nimetz yesterday in New York, where they welcomed the efforts made by Athens and Skopje for...

Tomorrow, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European Affairs from the US State Department, Hoyt Brian Yee will be arriving in Skopje, the Embassy of the United States in Skopje confirmed for "Radio Free Europe" . The purpose of his trip and agenda are still unknown, whom he shall meet and his position on certain issues still remain...

The US State Department once again have asked the President of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov to withdraw his decision on the pardons and to allow the Special Public Prosecutor's Office and the courts to do their job. At yesterday's briefing for journalists Elizabeth Trudeau, Director of the Press Office at U.S. Department of State said: "We and the EU have made our...

The United States is deeply concerned by President Gjorge Ivanov's decision to pardon people under investigation connected to the scandal with the intercepted calls, wrote the US State Department in reaction to the whole affair. "If implemented, this decision will protect corrupt officials and deny justice to the people of Macedonia. It will also further undermine Macedonian rule of law,...

The US State Department estimates that the Przhino Agreement is the best way out of the political crisis in Macedonia and urged political parties to continue the implementation of the agreement. “We encourage Macedonia’s leader to build on the progress that they’ve already made in implementing the July 15political agreement, which represents the best way forward out of the crisis and...

"In Macedonia, most of the human rights problems arise from significant levels of corruption and the failure of the Government to fully respect the rule of law, limits on freedom of the media, interference in the judiciary and selective investigations", reads the regular annual report of the State Department of the United States of America (USA) on the situation...

The US government concernedly follows the political turmoil in Macedonia with the wiretapping affair and case "Puch", said a spokesman for the US State Department, reports Voice of America. Official Washington feels that the events raised serious questions for Macedonian citizens, as well as the international friends and partners of Macedonia. State Department calls on the Macedonian authorities to adhere to...