site.btaHeads of Sofia and Skopje Audit Offices Meet with Macedonian Parliament Speaker

Bulgarian National Audit Office President Tsvetan Tsvetkov and North Macedonia's Auditor General Maksim Acevski met with Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi in Skopje on Wednesday.

Representatives of Bulgaria's National Audit Office are paying a visit to Skopje to exchange experience with their Macedonian counterparts within the framework of a twinning project that they are implementing together with the Audit Office of Croatia. Until Friday they will be discussing control over the financial activities of political parties, party financing, expenditures and donations and also the activities of political parties during elections campaigns, said in a joint interview for BTA Tsvetkov and Acevski. The two are mulling a cooperation agreement under which at least once a year auditors from Bulgaria's National Audit Office and North Macedonia's State Audit Office will meet and exchange experience and good practices.

Bulgaria's National Audit Office and North Macedonia's State Audit Office have a longterm cooperation and over the past five years they have implemented two twinning projects.