North Macedonia Selects New Ambassadors to Cairo, Oslo, Athens and Budapest

The Government of North Macedonia has approved some of the nominees who will represent the country at its diplomatic missions abroad. Albanian diplomats Elma Altorok and Driton Kuçi are among those selected.

Elma Altorok, the only career diplomat selected by the Government at its May 26 session, is preparing her policy platform as part of the procedure for her appointment as ambassador to Cairo. She is expected to move from her position as acting head of North Macedonia’s embassy in the Egyptian capital to the post of ambassador.

Altorok has already served in a diplomatic capacity in Egypt, a country of 120 million people, and has secured the confidence of the institutions to continue her work in this Middle Eastern country. Before her appointment, she must defend her policy platform before the relevant committees. This will be her third diplomatic posting in the Middle East.

Driton Kuçi, regarded as one of the country’s successful diplomats, will continue his service in Oslo, Norway. As he has previously served as ambassador in Oslo, this will be his second term in the country.

For other diplomatic missions, the Government has selected Filip Pashun as ambassador to Athens, Tatjana Loparskin to Budapest and lawyer Jasmin Kalaç to Sarajevo.

Pending the completion of parliamentary procedures are the appointments of Krum Efremov as ambassador to Bulgaria, Gabriel Atanasov to Romania, Muharem Jusuf to Sweden and Katerina Todorovska to Kosovo./Alsat/