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MACEDONIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Macedonia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Antonio Milososki will attend the 17-th OSCE Ministerial meeting, which will take place in Athens December 1-2.
Milososki will give a speech at the Ministerial meeting and he is expected to hold bilateral talks with other countries’ foreign ministers. Milososki is scheduled to meet Greece’s Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas.
The meeting will focus on a wide range of issues concerning OSCE’s political-military, economic-environmental and humanitarian dimensions.
The Greek OSCE chair's efforts would be focused on achieving a political declaration that built on the foundations laid with the Corfu process, using a proposal from the informal OSCE meeting in June 2009, where they’ve decided to strengthen the European dialogue and cooperation among EU member states on security issues in Europe.
The Greek OSCE chairmanship ends this year. Kazakhstan is the future OSCE chairmanship.
MACEDONIAN MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
Macedonian Minister of Economy Fatmir Besimi will attend at the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference, set to be held in Geneva.
The ministers are expected to have discussions under the main theme "WTO, Multilateral Trading System and Current Global Economic Environment."
At the conference will attend ministers from the EU member states as well as ministers from other countries.
This conference is held every second year. Ministers bring decisions on all issues in the frameworks of WTO, based on the decision of the General Council.
Besimi will discuss issues related to agriculture, nonagricultural products, trade service, trade facilitation and negotiations for rules in trade and environment.
NO MORE VISA FOR WESTER BALKAN
EU Council of Home and Justice Affairs Ministers passed Monday the decision on elimination of the Schengen visa barrier for Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro as of December 19.
"We strongly support this decision, which represents an important stage in the process of the countries' approximation to the EU", said French Minister for Immigration, Integration, National identity and Solidary Development Eric Besson at a press conference in Brussels.
The decision supplements EU Regulation 539/2001, transferring the three countries from the "black" to the "white" Schengen list.
Out of the 27 EU member-states, 25 will be accessible without visas, except for Great Britain and Ireland. Macedonian nationals would also be able to travel to Switzerland, Iceland and Norway, which are not EU members, but are part of the Schengen area. Visa annulment also refers to Greece, but since Athens does not recognize Macedonian passports, passengers will be issued a paper by the customs authorities at the border. Visas will not be required for traveling in Bulgaria and Romania, which have still not met Schengen criteria, but implement EU decisions. A prolonged stay in the EU requires Type "D" visa, which refers to study of work stay in the Union, whereas applications should be submitted in the embassy of the countrydestination. According to MoI data, over 480,000 biometric passports have been issued thus far, which is over 75 percent of the travelling population.
Macedonia TO URGED FOR NEGOTIATIONS DATE
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will meet EC President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday December 2. According to previous announcements, the meeting was confirmed after prime ministers Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou met on Friday in the Greek part of Prespa region. Government sources pointed out that prime ministers will continue dialogue in the following period. Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and Greece’s Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas are to meet on the sidelines of OSCE Ministerial meeting on December 1-2, which will take place in Athens . After the meeting with Papandreou, Gruevski sent letters to all EU member states and urged them to set a date for start of accession negotiations with EU December 7.
NATIONAL BANK OF Macedonia
Macedonia's National Bank (NBRM) on Monday cut its key repo rate to 8.5% from 9.0% based on expectations of more favorable conditions for its monetary policy next year.
The decision is made at a session of the NBRM Council, which also adopted a monetary policy for the next year.
A gradual economic recovery is expected in Macedonia next year, NBRM Governor Petar Gosev said.
According to the bank's forecasts, the country's economy will grow 1.0%-2.0% next year, while average annual inflation will be 1.2 %.
The central bank will take all necessary measures to maintain the stability of the Denar's exchange rate in 2010, Gosev said.
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