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FOREIGNERS DIG FOR VINTAGE WINE IN MACEDONIA
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Received Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:19:00 GMT
SKOPJE, April 3, 2007 (AFP) - An increasing number of foreigners are visiting Macedonia to dig up vintage wine left behind in the tiny Balkan country by allied troops during World War I, a report said Tuesday.
"More and more foreigners, mostly French, are coming with maps and excavating former military storages," said Petre Sindevski, a 73-year-old from Staravina village, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Skopje.
"They ask if we have found some bottles of wine in the past and where. They dig overnight when nobody can see them," he told Dnevnik newspaper.
During the 1914-1918 war, the region was a frontline of Salonika, where a number of French soldiers fought and died.
Macedonian enologists estimate some of the wine could be more than 90 years old and, according to one of them, Zlatko Lazov, a well-conserved bottle could fetch a price tag today of up to 2,000 euros (2,675 dollars).
Locals say they have unearthed bottles of wine and cognac, claiming that they have never tasted anything better |
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US position over Macedonia's name remains unchanged
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Washington /23/03/ 10:45 -- Makfax
Washington made it clear Thursday there is no change in its position over Macedonia's constitutional name.
Asked by a journalist for any readout from the meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, the State Department's spokesman Sean McCormack said they talked about a number of bilateral issues.
"They covered a number of bilateral issues. They talked about the Visa waiver Program. They talked also about issues related to Macedonia," McCormack said.
The Greek journalist asked McCormack did he mean FYROM.
"I know you would have a different name for it. We call it Macedonia," McCormack told the journalist. /end/ |
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Government and private sector set to build 100 new schools
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Skopje /13/03/ 16:04 Makfax
The Government is set to build a hundred new primary and secondary schools under partnership with the private sector, as well as a hundred new gymnasiums.
Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski announced this at today's press conference in Skopje, adding that the entire project foresees also supplying of as many as 150.000 computers.
"The private companies will be offered to invest in construction of schools that will be in their ownership under concession license for a certain period, in which the local self-government will pay them rental fees", Gruevski said, adding that the Government will increase appropriation of funds to the Municipalities during the first years to assist payment of rental fee.
Gruevski explained that the Municipal Mayors would be entitled to specify the number and locations of the new schools, while the public biddings for their construction would be announced soon, but gave no details as to the building deadlines.
"The goal is to bring schoolchildren and students closer to the schools", Gruevski said, adding that the Government aims to cancel the third and the second school shifts.
Macedonian PM said the projects will be executed through a EUR40 million loan, due to be approved by the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction in June. |
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Macedonians claim election victory in Mala Prespa
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Pustec /19/02/ 11:32
 Macedonian Alliance for European Future (PMAEI), a party founded by Macedonians in Albania, said it won the mayoral vote in Mala Prespa, Albania, Makfax correspondent said.
PMAEI's Political Secretary Kimet Fetahu told Makfax news agency the party's candidate Edmond Temelko has garnered majority votes in the municipality of Mala Prespa, in the course of Sunday's local elections in Albania.
Fetahu said PMAEI's candidate for mayor won majority votes and the party won five seats in the Council of the Municipality of Mala Prespa, i.e. 35 percent of the total number of Council members.
Fetahu added there was no immediate word on the outcome of mayoral vote in other municipalities, as the count began late on Sunday.
As regards the voting process, Fetahu said the elections were conducted in calm atmosphere. |
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