President Dr. Gjorge Ivanov in frames of today’s working visit to the Municipality of Jegunovce near Tetovo, met with the Mayor Toni Kocevski and the Municipality Councilors. They raised topics related to situation in the municipality, opportunities for investments and development, as well as the prospects for usage of the regions’ capacities. 

Local authorities informed President Ivanov about the challanges Jagunovce faces, the importance and the condition of the two regional highways crossing therough the municipality, as well as the need for regulation of Vardar riverbed which will prevent future floods.

In frames of this visit, President Ivanov also met Mr. Vladimir Shedrovicki, General Director of one of the biggest factories in the country “Jugohrom Feroaloys”, which since 2010 is owned by the Russian-Ukranian company “Camelot Group”, employing at the moment 800 people. He acknowledged new owners’ efforts for additional investments and expansion of the production capacities which will allow new employments, as well as the initiative for stipending young people’s advanced education in the areas of metallurgy and technology. All of this efforts, as well as the commitment to environment protection, open new perspectives for the citizens of this part of the country. President Ivanov expressed his hopes that “Jugohrom” will once again reach the level of the past as the biggest industrial capacity in the area of metallurgy in Macedonia.

President Ivanov visited the Library “Svetlina – Drita” in Preljubiste, as well as the bilingual integrated school for primary and secondary education in the same village, which according to him, represents a good example of how young generations can be thought in the language of the neighbour, get to know each other better, thus contributing to the higher societal integration.

The bilingual integrated education project is implemented with an assistance of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the NGO “Nansen Dialogues Center”. The President met Professor Stayner Brin, Director of the Nansen Balkan Network and Sasho Stojkovski, the Executive Director of the Nansen Dialogue Center, Skopje. He also had the opportunity to attend a special performance that the pupils have prepared for this occasion.