The Chief of ARM General Staff Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski participated at the eleventh Conference of Chiefs of General Staffs of the Balkan countries, today (10.05.2017) in Athens, Greece. The topics discussed at the conference were related to the geopolitical stability of Southeastern Europe and ways of military cooperation in order to deal with the…
On 10.05.2017, at MoD and GS of ARM premises an expert meeting on the project “Balkan regional approach to Air Defence – BRAAD” was held. The aim of this meeting was to conduct an overview of the activities within the framework of the BRAAD initiative that have already been completed and at the same time…
ARM Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski had a regular meeting with the newly appointed non-resident Republic of Turkey defense attaché for Macedonia, Lieutenant Colonel Rushen Abidinoglu. During the meeting they discussed issues related to cooperation in the field of defense with special emphasis on the joint participation in the peacekeeping mission ‘Resolute Support’…
ARM Military Orchestra held a significant concert of military music in the Army House in Skopje, as part of activities to mark the 25 years since the establishment of the Army of Republic of Macedonia. As many times before the Military Orchestra, part of the Ceremonial Guard Battalion, played compositions of famous domestic and foreign…
A delegation of the Macedonian Army (ARM), led by the Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Metodija Velickovski had an official visit of the KFOR command in Pristina. During the visit, CHOD of ARM had a meeting with KFOR Commander Major General Giovanni Fungo, which is their first official meeting since General Fungo was appointed…
The cooperation of ARM with the USA Armed Forces (AF) for Europe and the meetings of ARM Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski and Major General Ben Hodges continue in various forms of activities towards training the officers of both armies. As a result of these meetings a group of young USA Armed…
The Partnership Program for cooperation that has been successfully implemented for more than two decades, with the active involvement of the Vermont National Guard and Norwich University in the field of military training and education, resulted in a true friendship between Republic of Macedonia and the US Federal State of Vermont. This was stated by…
Yesterday (18th of April 2017), ARM delegation led by the ARM Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski began the planned activities within the working visit to the US federal state Vermont. Within the agenda of the first day General Velichkovski met his host, the Vermont National Guard Commander Major General Steven Cray, and…
At the military barracks “Alekso Demnievski-Bauman”, Veles, there was a celebration for the Day of the Training Command and Doctrine (TRADOC). The President of the Republic of Macedonia decreed the 15th of April as the Day of the Unit for the Training Command and Doctrine. It was the date when in 1992, the first recruits…