An agreement will be signed soon with a US company on new EUR18 million-investment in the Technological-Industrial Development Zone (TIDZ) - Skopje, PM Gruevski said Sunday in his address at the annual conference of the VMRO-DPMNE Women's Union. 

"On December 19, we shall sign an agreement on new investment with renown US company, which will result in opening of minimum 400 jobs. The investment is at EUR 18 million," Gruevski said.

Gruevski expressed hope that by the yearend he would be able to announce at least one more large investment in some of Macedonia's cities, where no new plant has been erected thus far.