On 1st July, over 30 environmental organisations (13 of them members of the Platform for Green Macedonia) were invited on the second working meeting with the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Ivanov. The meeting was also attended by Government representatives (the Minister of Agriculture, Deputy Minister of Environment), members of the Macedonian Parliament and distinguished professors in the field of ecology in Macedonia. The meeting took place in the President’s Cabinet in the Villa Vodno.
The purpose of the meeting was for civil society organisations to present the views to the President and institutional representatives on environmental issues, and their suggestions for possible solution at local and national level. A significant part of the identified problems and possible solutions were related to the 10 hot-spots from Platform for Green Macedonia supported by over 25 organisations from Macedonia. (The Platform for Green Macedonia is promoted under the project “Development of the ENV.net in West Balkans and Turkey: giving citizens a voice to influence the environmental process reforms for closer EU integration” supported by the European Commission).