The Government of the Republic of Macedonia at the session held today reached a decision to send financial aid in the amount of 100,000 euros as a financial support to the victims and to help repair the damages sustained from the severe earthquake in the Republic of Turkey.

Additionally, the Government obligated the Minister without portfolio, Mr. Hadi Nezir, to keep contact with the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey to the Republic of Macedonia, in order to review the need from the Turkish side for an additional kind of technical aid that the Republic of Macedonia could send in the Turkish province of Van, where the catastrophic earthquake happened.

With this decision of the Government, the Republic of Macedonia once more shows its solidarity to the countries facing severe natural disasters.