Following a RECOM publicity campaign, in which postcards were sent to Balkan presidents, the Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov has held a meeting with a leading RECOM advocate.
>>>The Macedonian government's ethnic Albanian junior partner says it will foil any attempts by the main ruling party to get the controversial army law passed through a shortened procedure.
Ibrahim Sulejmani, a 39 year-old former commander of the disbanded Albanian guerrilla force that fought the short lived 2001 Macedonian conflict, has died on Wednesday in a Macedonian prison.
>>>Logjam over army law continues in parliament, where the government's ethnic Albanian junior partner is blocking adoption through marathon speeches.
>>>A debate in parliament over a controversial law on armed forces exposed predictable divisions between ethnic Macedonians who support it and Albanians who oppose it.
>>>Ethnic Albanian party threatens to block the work of parliament with hundreds of amendments if the ruling party pushes on with a controversial law on the armed forces.
>>>Macedonia’s new Lustration Law, aimed at rooting out former police collaborators, may encounter the fate as the previous one, as key provisions are again contested before the Constitutional Court.
>>>The families of missing persons agree with Amnesty International’s assessment that the lack of progress in finding their loved ones is a result of the fact that war crimes perpetrators still wield political influence.
>>>Albanian party’s threat to quit faces crucial test as ruling party pushes on with a law that it bitterly opposes.
>>>President criticises Defence Minister for laying flowers before a war memorial to ethnic Albaian fighters killed in 2001.
>>>The head of the Open Society Institute – Macedonia, Vladimir Milcin, will sue the Lustration Commission and its head, Tome Adziev, for wrongfully naming him a Communist-era police informant.
>>>The Macedonian Lustration Commission named 11 people as collaborators with the former police and state security agencies on Monday, under the newly adopted Lustration Law.
>>>A human right activist is suing President Gjorge Ivanov for approving the new Lustration law that some rights groups deem unconstitutional.
>>>Unsure how to implement key parts of Macedonia's new Lustration Law, the Commission tasked with enforcing it is seeking experts' help.
>>>Macedonia has failed to elect new judges, including the head of the Supreme Court, after disagreements within the ruling coalition over which candidates to support.
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