Skopje, 3 December 2021 (MIA) – Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski visited on Friday North Macedonia’s Embassy in Slovenia at the invitation of Ambassador Suzana Zelenkovska and learned more about the mobile base stations for issuing and delivery of passports to Macedonian nationals living and working abroad. Spasovski wrote in a Facebook post that the base station in Slovenia launched operations on September 27, adding that 249 nationals have been photographed for new passports, while 187 passports have been delivered to the embassy and 137 have been picked up. “We responded to citizens’ requests and in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry installed equipment in our diplomatic and consular offices to cut down the procedure for issuing and picking up passports. In August we promoted nine base and four mobile stations, installed in countries with sizeable Macedonian diaspora, thus resolving an issue our nationals living and working abroad have been facing for decades and shortening a process that used to take up to six months to be completed,” read Spasovski’s post. By installing base stations, he added, we have enabled diplomatic and consular offices to receive and process requests at daily level and issue passports within three weeks. “We listen to citizens and continue to improve conditions for nationals living abroad by meeting their needs in a timely and efficient manner and enabling them to exercise their rights uninterrupted,” read the Minister’s post.