Skopje, 6 April 2022 (MIA) – Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi met Wednesday with the President of the Bulgarian National Audit Office, Tzvetan Tzvetkov, Vice-President Toshko Todorov, and Auditor General of the State Audit Office of North Macedonia, Maksim Acevski. Secretary General of North Macedonia’s Parliament, Cvetanka Ivanova, also attended the meeting. Participants in the meeting highlighted the excellent cooperation between the Parliament and the State Audit Office of North Macedonia. Speaker Xhaferi noted that the Parliament has initiated the cooperation, because it sees the role of the Audit Office as its right-hand institution auditing all key institutions, adding that this provides an excellent example to all local institutions, the Parliament said in a press release. “A memorandum of cooperation will be signed in the coming period between the Parliament and the State Audit Office, which will coordinate EU expectations. The key motivation behind this meeting was certainly the excellent cooperation between the audit institutions of North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Croatia as twinning partners in the Twinning Project 2, funded by the EU, whose most serious product is the draft Law on State Auditing which, Acevski noted, has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance to be forwarded to the Parliament for review and adoption,” the press release reads. The President of the Bulgarian National Audit Office, Tzvetkov, expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to meet with the Speaker of the Parliament as a key partner of the audit institutions. “He expressed satisfaction with the twenty-year cooperation with the State Audit Office of North Macedonia, which is a great example of how institutions of neighboring countries should cooperate without allowing current political discourse to impose their own rules,” adds the press release. Regarding the importance of the new draft-law, Tzvetkov stressed it will contribute to sooner integration and alignment with European Union audit legislation, as North Macedonia aspires to become a full-fledged EU member. dk/nn/