MAK-NEWS 20/10/95 (M.I.L.S.)

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Skopje, 20 October 1995

[01] MACEDONIAN DELEGATION IN NEW YORK

A delegation of the Republic of Macedonia led by the Parliament President Stojan Andov departed for New York yesterday. It will participate at the ceremonial session of the General Assembly on the occurrence of the 50 anniversary of the founding of UN. The delegation members are the Macedonian Foreign Minister, Stevo Crvenkovski and the deputy Dzeladin Murati.

[02] AKASHI VISITS MACEDONIA

The Macedonian Parliament President, Stojan Andov, met the special envoy of the UN Secretary General, Yassushi Akashi, who was accompanied by the Chief of UNPREDEP in Macedonia, Henryk Sokalski, yesterday. With great respect, Akashi stressed the peaceful policy of President Gligorov and the presence of the UN forces for preserving the peace in the region.

President Andov expressed the strong determination of Macedonia to continue its policy of cooperation with all countries and thanked the mediator in the Macedonian- Greek relations, Cyrus Vance, as well as other representatives of UN who supported the peaceful policy of Macedonia.

Akashi and Andov agreed that the mandate of the UN forces in Macedonia should continue under autonomous command and administration in Skopje.

Mr. Akashi had a farewell meeting with the Prime Minister , Branko Crvenkovski and the Defense Minister, Blagoj Handziski.

The special envoy visited the President Gligorov's wife, Mrs. Nada Gligorova and expressed the wishes of the Secretary General, Boutros Ghali, for a quick and full recovery of the President.

[03] THE TREATMENT OF GLIGOROV CONTINUES AT HOME

The state of health of President Gligorov is good and he was released yesterday from the hospital. The medical treatment will continue at home with continual care and rehabilitation, the bulletin of the medical team says.

[04] THE POSITION OF THE PARTIES ARE HIGHLY COORDINATED

The expert groups of Macedonia and Greece resumed talks in Athens. According to the Macedonian Radio, the parties achieved high coordination in their positions, concerning the traffic and the automobile insurance. Representatives of insurance companies also met to discuss the international trafic insurance. It is expected that the Parties will sign a uniform agreement which will put an end to problems of automobile insurance between the two countries. The agreement will encourage other members of the EU to arrange similar agreements regarding the insurance. Today several protocols will be signed on the issues concerned.

[05] NEW ATMOSPHERE ON THE MACEDONIAN -GREEK BORDER

The last couple of days hundreds of Macedonian citizens entered Greece without any problems. The Greek authorities were polite with Macedonians which was not the case in the past, while the Greek citizens entered Macedonia even easier as they were not retained at the crossing. Unfortunately, only Macedonians from the Aegean part are prohibited to enter Greece who, apparently are not welcomed in the country as it was the case when Macedonia was in the Yugoslav Federation.

However, the transport traffic is already established in both ways. The Greek transporters will not pay travel taxes and green cards for insurance which will lower transport costs for 200 DM. The railway has not started to function yet, but it is expected that this problem will be solved on the meeting of the Macedonian Transport Under-Secretary Causevski and the Greek Transport Minister, Veniselos.

[06] YUGOSLAVIA WILL RECOGNIZE MACEDONIA

According to information from officials close to the Yugoslav diplomacy, 'Makpres' reports that Yugoslavia will soo recognize Macedonia. This will hapen either before or after the meeting of the Contact Group and the Presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina in Ohio, USA on October 31, 1995.

[07] PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON THE LOCAL SELF-MANAGEMENT LAW

The Macedonian Parliament had a session yesterday on the law proposal for local self-management .The Justice Minister, Vlado Popovski, said that the Law's concept is to bring a real local self-management that will be efficient and close to the citizens. The draft has gone through the expert opinion of the Council of Europe which proves that the Ministry considered European standards.

The Minister stressed that the draft includes autonomous financing , and the units of Local Government will have judicial protection for possible limitations from state authorities. Popovski said that other complementary laws will determine the local self-management such as the Law for territorial division and the Law for local elections.

The Albanian deputies in the Parliament expressed their opinion emphasizing that the Law will bring a greater centralization of the Government and demanded a wider usage of the languages of nationalities (minorities).

Dzeladin Murati demanded a special Law on the languages.

According to Zekir Cadriu-PDP the proposed centralization is supported by the Constitution and has a purpose of limitation of wider and efficient management of Albanians in Macedonia. Hismen Ramadani-PDP demanded strict regulation of the usage of languages saying that the Albanian language in the communities where Albanians live should be official.According to Ismet Ramadani-PDP this Law means that there will be equal, less equal and least equal citizens. Kenan Kasipi- Turkish Democratic Party, stated that the law does not provide decentralization and demanded a special law on the usage of the languages. On the other hand, Gjorgji Atanasovski-SDSM stated that the law brings jurisdiction in the local management and it is already in practice. Tome Stojanovski-DPM supported the draft saying that it introduces modern solutions but he proposed a change in the percentage of regulation for the nationality status- 40 % for significant number and 70% for majority status. However Marajan Kotlar from LP had a different opinion and he proposed another solution about the city architect. Namely, the city architect should not be chosen by the City Mayor but the City Council should vote with two-thirds of the votes and elect the architect. There were many other discussion on the Law with various opinions. The session will continue today.

[08] SEMINAR OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF JUSTICE

The subject of the two-day seminar of the Association of Criminal Law and Criminology of Macedonia, which is taking place in Struga, is the draft versions on the future Criminal Legislature and the Law of Justice The seminar was opened by dr. Vlado Kambovski who leads the expert group that prepares the above mentioned law in the Ministry of Justice. "This law is inevitable because of the need for adjustment with the society processes and the European Criminal Law, the danger of international criminal penetration and money laundering. The reform will be done in two separate phases that need at least three or four years", he stated in his speech.

Dr. Nikola Matovski reviewed the Law on Criminal Assault saying that the law draft goes through expert opinion in the Council of Europe. The aspects of the Law on Violation were mentioned by the President of the State Court, Simeon Malinkov.

The members of the Council were greeted by Gerd Kapelare, counselor in the Department of Juvenile Delinquency in UN and Interpol. It is expected that the Justice Minister will talk today at the seminar.

[09] THE AWARD " 26 JULY' HAS BEEN GRANTED

Yesterday, the University St. Cyril and Methodius granted the awards "July 26" sponsored by 'Frank Manig' from London. This award is granted annually to the best students in architecture, humanitarian sciences and arts.

This year's winners are: Hristina Andonovska from the Philology Faculty, Nora Nanova from the Faculty for Economy, Nicola Dimitrov from the Law Faculty, Alexandra Gjurkova from the Faculty for Philosophy, Irena Kafkalevska from the Faculty for Music Arts and Oliver Micevski from the Faculty for Architecture.

[10] MACEDONIANS IN ALBANIA WILL BE TAUGHT IN THEIR MOTHER TONGUE

The chief of the Department for elementary education in the Albanian Ministry of Education, Baskim Berisha, announced that the Albanian Pedagogical Institute prepares programs for books on mother tongue for the Macedonians in Albania.

There are about 5 000 ethnic Macedonians in Albania of which 600 are students in elementary schools. They are taught by 60 teachers of Albanian origin. As 'Makpres' reports, the teaching in elementary schools will be in their mother tongue while the teaching from 5 to 8 grade will be in Macedonian and Albanian language.

As Berisha says, the Macedonian government is helping with the realization of the program.

[11] A TURKISH CONSULATE IN BITOLA SOON

The Ambassador of Turkey, Unau Marsli, stayed in Bitola yesterday. He met the Mayor of the city of Bitola, Dejan Ristevski, the Rector of the University St. Kliment Ohridski, Dimko Kokarevski, and the commander of the Bitola corps of the Macedonian Army. During the talks an initiative has been proposed about opening a Turkish Consulate in Bitola. As it was said, this initiative is accepted by Ankara, but there are certain things to be completed before its opening.

[MILS SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT:

[12] MEMORANDUM ON "PRACTICAL MEASURES" RELATED TO THE INTERIM ACCORD OF NEW YORK OF SEPTEMBER 13, 1995. PART II

d) Bank Exchanges The banking institutions of the two Parties, upon receipt of electronic messages, will continue to communicate in accordance with the already established practice.

A meeting between representatives of banking institutions should take place as promptly as possible in order to promote bilateral cooperation in this field.

e)The Party of the First Part will not return trade documents (bills of lading, invoices, etc.) of the Party of the Second Part on which this Party is designated by a name which the Party of the First Part does not recognize. The Party of the First Part will process them only after its appropriate authorities have affixed on them, beside the existing seal, a seal bearing the provisional designation by which the Party of the Second Part is referred to in the UN Security Council Resolution 817/93. Accordingly, the Party of the Second Part will not return trade documents (bills of lading, invoices, etc.) of the Party of the First Part on which this party is designated by the provisional designation by which the Party of the Second Part is referred to in the UN Security Council Resolution 817/93. The Party of the Second Part will process them only after its appropriate authorities have affixed on them beside the existing seal, a seal bearing a name which the Party of the First Part does not recognize.

As far as maritime bills of lading are concerned, the above-mentioned seals will be affixed on a separate paper stapled on them.

The above-mentioned arrangements apply only in cases of bilateral trade.

f) Referring to documents pertaining to bilateral road and railway transport, these will not be returned by the authorities of the respective Parties of the Two Parts and will be processed by them only after the seal mentioned in par. e is affixed on them.

g) As far as documents of transit transports are concerned, the authorities of the respective Parties of the Two Parts will staple on them a separate paper bearing the seal as the one described in par, e above.

h) Representatives of the appropriate authorities of both Parties shall meet as promptly as possible( no later than within 7 days) in order to arrange, in a more detailed way, the bilateral cooperation in the fields mentioned in par. e to g.

i) As far as international green cards of insurance of vehicles are concerned, both Parties agreed that a Uniform Bilateral Agreement, between the competent agencies for green card insurance of the two Parties, shall be signed a soon as possible.

j) Transport and Communications Meeting between representatives of the Ministries of Transport and Communications, railway authorities. post and telecommunication offices, civil aviation directorates, customs authorities and the national green cards bureaus of the Parties of the two Parts will be held within seven days in order to examine and determine, on the basis of reciprocity, the relations between the Parties of the Two Parts in the respective fields in compliance with the Interim Accord of September 13, 1995 and the relative provisions of this document.

Pending bilateral regulations in the field of transport and communications, to be determined by the end of the year, and with a view to facilitating unimpeded implementation of the Interim Accord, the Parties of the Two Parts have agreed as follows:

- road transport: freight trucks of the Parties of the Two Parts, loaded or unloaded, should enter the territories of the Two Parties, for bilateral and transit transports, without licenses and without paying transport fees, except in cases of transports to and from third countries.

- "Closed Doors" circle bus transport, within the framework of the ASOR Convention or the EU Regulation 684/92, will be conducted without licenses, with verified lists of passengers and without paying transport fees.

- Railway freight transport will be conducted on the basis of reciprocity and taking due account of the provisions of the Agreement between the former SFRY and the Republic of Greece of 1976.

- During the foreseen meeting of the competent representatives, the question of transports to and from ports of the Party of the First Part, will be examined.

Each Party accepts that there will be no discriminatory treatment of the transporters of the other Party in favor of its own transporters.

k) Regarding products of the Party of the Second Part exported to the Party of the First Part and bearing a name not recognized by the Party of the First Part, the Party of the First Part's importers, before the products' customs clearance by the Party of the First Part, shall cover this name with a sticker bearing the provisional designation by which the Party of the Second Part is referred to in the UN Security Council Resolution 817/93.

It is understood that the transit of products produced in the Party of the Second Part shall be conducted without impediments by the Party of the First Part and the Party of the First Part and treated in the manner described in par. g.

1) The use of the designation sign "MK" on the vehicles with a registration plate of the Party of the First Part, does not imply recognition of its validity by the Party of the First Part, pursuant to the reservation deposited by this Party with the UN Secretariat acting as depository of the Convention on Road Traffic (Vienna, November 8, 1968).

Consequently, upon entry of private vehicles with an "MK" sign into the territory of the Party of the First Part, the officials of this Part will place, on a free space, on the back wing-shield of those vehicles a self - adhesive sticker, not bigger than the distinguishing signs used in international transport, stating the above reservation. This sticker will remain on the vehicles throughout their circulation in the territory of the Part of the First Part. Vehicles without sticker will not be able to circulate in the territory of the Party of the First Part. The same applies to buses and trucks with an "MK" sign. The said sticker will be put on the front or on the rear of these vehicles.

Accordingly, concerning the code "65 MZ", appearing on the sides of the railway cars of the Party of the Second Part, upon their entry into the territory of the Party of the First Part and as long as they circulate therein, beside the code, a self-adhesive sticker as above containing the objection of the Party of the First Part in respect of this code will be placed.

m) Issues arising out of the designation of air carries of the Party of the Second Part, such as traffic rights, handling etc. will be examined within 7 days.

n) If a citizen of either of the Parties of the Two Parts during his/her stay in the territory of the other Party should sign any document, form or alike which contains a name or the provisional designation not accepted by either of the Parties, his/her signature on this document, form or alike does not imply in any case any position as to the name of the Party of the Second Part.

In case of dispute of difficulties arising from the implementation of the provisions of this Memorandum, expert delegations of the two Ministries of the Foreign Affairs or of other competent Ministries of the Parties of the Two Parts shall meet as soon as possible to resolve disputable issues.

Insofar as the confirmation of this Memorandum with the obligations of the Party of the First Part deriving from its membership in the EU is concerned, the relevant articles of the Interim Accord shall apply.

Done in Skopje on October 13, 1995, in two original copies in English.

Dimitrios Kypreos                  Ljupco Arsovski
Ambassador                         Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs
Party of the First Part            Party of the Second Part

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