Initiative for cooperation between the Assembly and AJM

At the proposal of AJM, a meeting was held yesterday in the premises of the Assembly of North Macedonia, attended by President Talat Xhaferi, President of AJM Mladen Chadikovski and Executive Director Dragan Sekulovski.

At the working meeting it was discussed the possibility of organizing events this fall to which a group of MPs and journalists will be invited. The purpose of these activities is to discuss the improvement of transparency of the Assembly work towards journalists and the media, as well as to summarize the impressions from the period of the Assembly’s work with journalists and the media during the crisis caused by the current pandemic.

At the meeting, President Xhaferi and President Chadikovski additionally discussed the possibility of organizing a regional conference in Skopje. At the conference will participate MPs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, and journalists from associations from these countries with the idea of encouraging regional cooperation between MPs and journalists. In addition, the opportunity for signing a joint declaration by the assemblies of these countries with a commitment to improve legal solutions in the context of improving the safety of journalists was discussed.