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INTERVIEW
The humanity in the Affairs, mister Bushnaq, will forward the tion, have these causes been removed in
past two hundred note for recognition and establishment newer buildings in Skopje?
years achieved greater of diplomatic relations between the two
civilization progress in countries, which was signed by the presi- B. Nocev: Back in 1979 a strong earth-
many fields (science, dent of the Czech Republic, Mr. Vaclav quake happened in Montenegro whereby
medicine, technology, Havel. In Skopje, Mr. Bushnaq handed immediately after the earthquake all re-
education, culture, over the original note of the President publics of former Yugoslavia sent teams
etc.) than in the of the Republic of Macedonia, mister of experts for assessment of damages.
previous two thousand Kiro Gligorov, and the copy of the note I led the team of experts from Macedo-
years whereby the was handed over to the minister of exter- nia, and already the second day after the
organizations behind nal affairs at the time, Mr. Stevo Crven- earthquake we were in Podgorica where
the curtain are exactly kovski. On March 10, with Note number the Headquarters gave us an assignment
the ones which have 1104-1479/1 I was appointed first official to go to Cetinje in order to assess the dam-
an important merit diplomatic representative of the Repub- ages from the earthquake. We finished
for such progress, lic of Macedonia in the Czech Republic the assignment faster than all teams, and
regardless of the names which I performed pro bono until the as an award we were given an additional
we give them appointment of Mr. Ognen Malevski for assignment – to assess the condition of
an ambassador of the Republic of Mace- the important architectural-cultural
donia in Austria (who had the status of monuments on Cetinje (the Njegos Muse-
a nonresident ambassador of the Repub- um Biljarda, the Royal Palace, the Njegos
lic of Macedonia in the Czech Republic) Mausoleum on Lovcen, the Metropoli-
in 1998. I would also like to point out the tanate, the British and the Russian Em-
great contribution of Mr. Jiří Dienstbier bassy and other monuments in Cetinje).
senior, vice-president of the Government After the termination of the activities for
and Minister of External Affairs of the assessment of damages, a meeting was
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the held of the Headquarters with the expert
period from 1990 until 1992 in regard to from the United Nations, engineer Cibo-
the recognition of the independence of rovski (his services were used after the
the Republic of Macedonia by the Czech earthquake in Skopje as well) and a simi-
Republic, as well as for the support of lar extent of damages was found as the
the organization of the visit of the first one after the Skopje earthquake in 1963.
president of the Republic of Macedonia, His professional recommendation was
Mr. Kiro Gligorov at the Czech President, to reconstruct the infrastructure and at
mister Vaclav Klaus, in 2006. An inter- the same time the residential buildings
esting fact is that mister Jiří Dienstbier should be reconstructed whereby this
senior is a nephew of Vladislav Ribnikar, should be done on the basis of an ad-
who was the founder of the most famous opted law on seismic construction of the
newspaper in the former area of Yugo- facilities. In our country there are sound
slavia (the Serbian newspaper “Politika“) legal regulations on seismic construction
and later on, a Minister of Information whereby the latest laws on necessary re-
of Yugolslavia. In addition, Vladislav Rib- vision of the projects by the Institute of
nikar was the first Yugoslav who was Earthquake Engineering and Engineer-
awarded the highest acknowledgement ing Seismology contribute for safe con-
in France – the Legion of Honor. struction. However, what is most impor-
tant is always the same – compliance and
The recent earthquakes in Skopje implementation of these laws and regu-
once again initiated fear among the citi- lations by the competent institutions in
zens. Back in 1979 you were engaged in practice.
the assessment of damages from the
strong earthquake in Montenegro. What Thank you for your interview.
did the findings of the assessment show,
what were the main causes of the dam- Zoran Jovanovski
ages? What is your professional estima-
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