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FOREIGN MINISTRY PREPARES TEXTBOOKS FOR DIASPORA
Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin November, 2007 - br. 11

The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs promoted the textbook “My Fatherland Macedonia”. This textbook contains lessons on the Macedonian language, history, geography, literature, and music. It is intended for Macedonian primary school children living in the Diaspora. This textbook is the first such teaching aid for these children, which is being published three whole decades after the release of a similar textbook. The Foreign Ministry also prepared the publication “Investing in Macedonia’s export capacities”, which is intended for Macedonian businessmen living abroad.

“The textbook, which is a teaching aid for primary education, can also be used as a textbook in all grades of the elementary education. It is also available to our fellow countrymen in all neighboring countries. This is just one of the 10 projects that we have realized for our fellow countrymen so far. This year we have the project with the history textbook. The emigrants can send us their proposals about possible projects, by the end of May,” said Sasko Todorovski, director of the Directorate for Diaspora at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

These two publications can be downloaded and printed from the webpage www.diaspora.gov.mk (Publications of KTI). Those businessmen who want to register firms in Macedonia will also find forms and information on how to do this on this Internet site.

"PRESPA" IS MODERNIZING

MACEDONIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESENTS US WITH IT EQUIPMENT

The Department for Diaspora at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented the daily Prespa with IT equipment recently. The equipment consists of one personal computer, scanner, printer, digital camera, and a fax machine. This equipment takes Prespa to a new era, the era of technological revolution. We hope that we will be able to prepare the whole newspaper on computer soon and that we will have editorial staff who will prepare the daily by themselves. In other words, we hope to stand on our own two feet. We also put your and our daily Prespa on the Internet with the help of the daily Dnevnik from Skopje, which was another step toward modernization of the editorial board. We will soon produce a modern daily that will be read by the Macedonian families in Albania. We also plan to introduce new contents. We will dedicate more attention to our youngest readers by preparing a special page for them, and we also plan to award valuable prizes to the best students who excel in all spheres. We are also working on our old idea of forming a regional network for exchange of information among the Macedonians who live in the neighboring countries. Danco Markovski, who was accompanied by his associate Stevo Simski, presented this gift of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to our daily. Markovski and Simski also held a long talk with Prespa Mayor Edmond Temelko, with whom they discussed a number of significant projects that are of interest to this municipality and the broader region. The Prespa Editorial Board is eternally grateful for this valuable gift of the Department for Diaspora.

H. Ivanovski