Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, answering a reporter’s question regarding the price reduction of oil derivatives and how it will come about, said that he expects a price reduction of MKD 2.5 by the end of the day.
“We have been working together with the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Mineral Resources in recent days with the largest, I would say supplier, which is OKTA. And the good news for Macedonian citizens is that OKTA will give a discount of approximately 45 to 50 dollars per ton to the companies that cooperate with it, starting today. That would mean a reduction of somewhere around MKD 2.5 per liter. And then I also spoke with a large number of gas station owners who said that they would pass that on to the end users. Since the regulator determines the highest price, I expect that after this is announced, oil and oil derivatives will be reduced by approximately MKD 2.5 per liter during the day,” said PM Mickoski.
“What that would mean in terms of funds, it would mean that, let’s say a liter of diesel in our country will be 1 euro and 35 euro cents. In the neighborhood, for example, in Serbia it is already over a euro and 80 euro cents, in Albania it is a euro and 80 euro cents, in Kosovo it is over a euro and 50, euro and 60 euro cents. In Europe it is already over 2 euros, somewhere in the countries of the European Union it is 2.2 euros per diesel. So what we said, we are doing – that Macedonian citizens will use the cheapest oil and oil derivatives despite the fact that we are several hundred kilometers from military operations, fierce military operations. “But with good organization, with a constructive dialogue, we manage to overcome these, I would say challenges,” added the PM.
