Grandi: Ratifying Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness – a small step for the country, a huge leap for the UN


A delegation of North Macedonia officials, including Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrej Zhernovski, held Tuesday in Geneva a bilateral meeting with UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. North Macedonia’s cooperation with UNHCR was praised at the meeting, the Ministry of the Interior said in a press release. “The officials discussed […]

Number of asylum seekers in Montenegro triples


In the last two years, the number of asylum seekers tripled in Montenegro, but the number of people who were granted international protection is much lower, said UNHCR representative to Montenegro Roberta Montevecchi, in an interview for the Montenegro media. She added that these figures are not a cause for an alarm. Montevecchi explained that […]