Tonight Mr Vanhoutte will be awarded ‘Officer in the Order of the Crown’

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Today, Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte will be awarded the Belgian decoration of “Officer in the Order of the Crown” by the Ambassador of Belgium, Anick Van Calster.

The ceremony will be held tonight at 18.30 at the hotel “Arka”.

Mr Vanhoutte, the facilitator in Macedonia who participated in the negotiations on Black Monday and the crisis on 24th of December 2012, and led working groups for the implementation of the Przhino Agreement.

Lately he caused controversial reactions due to his tweets with pictures of cats through which he expressed himself with personal comments on the current situation in the country.

For these reasons and because of his personal views, the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE decided not to participate in negotiations and meetings and decided to cut off all communication with Mr Vanhoutte.