Skopje, 5 March 2024 (MIA) — Additional Deputy Minister of Interior Mitko Bojmacaliev paid Tuesday a working visit to the Bitola St. Clement of Ohrid University's Faculty of Security in Skopje and met with faculty dean Nikola Dujovski to discuss current and future cooperation.

According to an official press release, the Ministry of Interior and the Faculty of Security have had a successful cooperation, especially since 2017, in terms of furthering the careers of security personnel.

Additional Deputy Minister Bojmacaliev said that in recent years, thanks to the efforts of the previous interior minister, Oliver Spasovski, many students of the faculty had become part of the national security system as employees of the Ministry of Interior or other security agencies.

"The Ministry of Interior is the institution that protects national safety and security," Bojmacaliev said. "We need the best security personnel, with high integrity, as trained at the Faculty of Security, our oldest and most renowned higher education institution in the field of security."

Bojmacaliev said the cooperation between the two institutions would continue and be the basis of future security policies and plans.

Faculty of Security dean Nikola Dujovski welcomed the commitment to promoting the already excellent cooperation, he said.

"Our two institutions, the Ministry of Interior and the Faculty of Security, have been an example of what cooperation between institutions should look like," Dujovski said. 

He said faculty members had been actively taking part in the Ministry of Interior's security policy-making.

"Since 2017, a large number of graduates have continued their careers in the Ministry of Interior and we are confident that all future graduates will have the opportunity to put their academic knowledge to practice as part of the Ministry," he said.

Speaking about the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, the additional deputy minister said the Ministry of Interior, which is tasked with ensuring peaceful, fair and democratic elections, was fully up to the task, being a reformed, transparent institution that citizens trust.

Meeting participants agreed that the country, as a NATO member state, needed to continue its path to prosperity as part of the European Union. mr/