Skopje, 9 September 2025 (MIA) - The Parliament's Committee on Oversight of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Intelligence Agency (IA) will hold a session at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, presided by its chair Skender Rexhepi.

Committee members informed Speaker Afrim Gashi about the decision, who told reporters today, "they reached an agreement and I respect this".

After the session, the Committee members who hold security clearances will pay an oversight visit to the NSA.

The problem with the session's scheduling occurred due to the fact that its chair Rexhepi does not have security clearance issued by the NSA.

The NSA has said that agency employees conducted surveillance operations of incumbent Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski and then-opposition leader, as well as journalists and businessmen, between 2019 and 2024.

Last week, PM Mickoski and NSA director Bojan Hristovski confirmed the reports but failed to produce details, saying these are classified documents, while expecting that the case would be prosecuted and those at fault would be held accountable.

The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption said later that it has opened a pre-investigative procedure after receiving the NSA reports.

Opposition parties have urged for declassification of the documents, with the PM saying yesterday that the question is not whether the materials will be declassified, but how to prevent abuses and ensure this doesn’t happen again.

“Surveillance and wiretapping have been done since the 1990s. And from the same structure, almost the same people and agents, close to the previous government, who are operating the system. With these steps they strike at the foundations of democracy, at the constitutional order, and not only do the consequences of such a twisted system destroy generations of people, but also endanger the entire country, where they are placing the entire security apparatus on a platter. These strikes also damage human destinies, most frequently by coming up with situations, contacts, adding things that don’t exist. I am personally a witness to this, seeing the material from the surveillance conducted on me,” Mickoski said.

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