The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov today visited the pharmaceutical company “Alkaloid JSC Skopje” and was acknowledged with the manufacturing capacities and programs, with the company’s strategy and results achieved.

Following the tour of the manufacturing facilities, laboratories and the Quality Control Centre, along with the Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, Cui Zhiwei, President Ivanov said that the company “Alkaloid” is really a success story in Macedonia, which meets the highest standards for the most demanding markets, proving that as a country we are working on improving the potentials and capacities in accordance with the foreign market demands.

”I can only congratulate the team led by Mr. Mukaetov, team that has succeeded in maintaining those standards and in offering products for all foreign markets. We took this opportunity to present all this to the Chinese Ambassador, to inform him of the pharmaceutical industry potential in Macedonia and of the export possibilities and the trade exchange between the two countries”, President Ivanov said.

The Chinese Ambassador, Cui Zhiwei, said he was impressed by what he saw today, especially the company’s potentials in the part of herbs and teas, and that he will do all his best to intensify the cooperation between Macedonia and China.

“We had the opportunity to show that Macedonia has the potential for development, progress and for achieving better results. At this point, we are still in a stage of monitoring the situation there because it’s a large and complex market, where every city has over one million inhabitants, its own philosophy of operation and economic performance. However, Macedonia has herbs and teas which China does not have”, the director of “Alkaloid”, Zivko Mukaetov, stressed.