The Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Macedonia strongly reacts to the SDSM statement and deems it as a desperate attempt to blame the Secretary General of the Cabinet, Mr. Boris Josifovski of an alleged involvement in the events on 27 April.

We understand the anxiety in SDSM caused by their failure to spin the truth about 27 April and their failure to cover up the disastrous mistakes as well as their own incompetence in running the country, but in order to prevent further speculating and spreading of misinformation, we would like to inform the public that the presence of Boris Josifovski in the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters on 27 April is not an unfamiliar fact.

The Secretary General of the President's Cabinet was summoned to the Primary Public Prosecution Office back in November, last year, and under a full moral and legal liability gave a detailed statement on all of his movements and the contacts he made, and has responded to all of the inquires.

We would like to remind SDSM that Boris Josifovski is a member of VMRO-DPMNE and as a member of that party his presence in the party's headquarters is beyond any dispute. At the same time we would like to point out that presence does not presupposes involvement in specific activities. The presence of Josifovski in the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters on 27 April was due to a planned appointment which had nothing to do with any kind of coordination of any type of activities related to an alleged declaration of state of war or a state of an emergency. After he was called by the President to assemble the Cabinet, Josifovski returned to his workplace.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, the freedom of movement is a guaranteed human right, unless another reality appeared in the meantime of which we are not aware of.