Skopje, 5 January 2024 (MIA) — The national air navigation service provider M-NAV guarantees that safety has not been nor will be threatened, M-NAV management board chair and executive director Fahrudin Hamidi told a press conference Friday.

Hamidi called a press conference after Thursday's incident at the M-NAV air traffic control facility where several people broke into the premises and attacked employees.

The attack happened after the Trade Union of Air Traffic Controllers leader Aleksandar Tasevski announced that in support of the union activities, 20 to 30 air traffic controllers and their assistants would resign from management positions in M-NAV and work projects.

Hamidi alleged that the union leader Tasevski was acting from his personal motives and interests and did not "let us do our job and the company's reputation has been damaged over false slander."

"Unfortunately, these are lucrative personal interests and shame on him," Hamidi said, adding that Tasevski had been drawing public attention to nepotism and partisan employment when "he is a nepotism himself, his father was a head of department, then he was also hired."

"And his brother, too, works as a controller," Hamidi said.

According to the M-NAV executive, the recent job competition results and employments the union was disputing were legitimate and the company was open to being audited from the Financial Police Office, the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, and other institutions. mr/