The Inter-Party Parliamentary Group for support of Roma rights and their inclusion and integration (IPPG) has been founded and promoted, this group will contain MPs from the current Parliamentary composition from various political parties.

The elected coordinator of the IPPG is the current MP – Ljatife Shikovska, and the deputy coordinators are the MPs Ljupco Balkovski and Igor Zdravkovski.

During the constitutive meeting, the President of the Parliament, Talat Djaferi had a speech where he expressed his full support towards the initiative to found this group, while also talking about the protection and the advancement of the rights of the Roma in this country.

The meeting was attended by the Vice Presidents of the Parliament, the President and the members of the Committees for relations between communities, the Commission for equal opportunities of women and men, the MPs Club, several members from the informal groups, or to be more specific, the IPPGs in the Parliament, interested MPs, representatives from several Embassies, as well as representatives from several NGOs.

The coordinator Ljatifa Shikovska, gave an explanation of the mission, goals and the priority fields of work of this Group. The attendants expressed admiration towards the coordinator and the founder of the Group, and also, having in mind the specifics of the Roma ethnic community as a nation which has been constitutively accepted. They suggested numerous questions and current subjects, ideas, to discuss the degree of rights of the Roma community, opportunities to improve the situation, and proposals would be considered at future meetings.

The Roma are an ethnic community with specific needs and problems, having this in mind, it is necessary for the state to take care of the Roma as a moral obligation and as a legally regulated duty in order to positively change the overall quality of the life of the Roma in Macedonia and to further increase their participation within the society of the Republic of North Macedonia.

In this context, the speakers remembered the deceased Faik Abdi and Amdi Bajram as representatives of the Roma community and as dedicated and approved advocates for their rights.

After the failure of the Roma community to obtain important positions in both the legislature and the executive, after the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, and the formation of the Government led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, the question arises: How to proceed in important issues and priorities regarding the Roma community?

In the run-up to the elections, the then leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, promised that some of the ministries in the Government would be cut, but in return, the so-called Directories. According to Zaev, according to Zaev, one of those Directorates is reserved for the Roma community. In fact, according to some guidelines, he will take over the competencies of the former Minister without portfolio for the implementation and enforcement of the action plans of the Roma Strategy.

But in fact, how the Directorate will function is still unclear. In the last 2-3 years, the non-governmental sector has debated and discussed in that direction, about the success of the work of the Minister without portfolio, where there was literally always a party man, who worked according to the party agenda, without any major feedback in various areas with which the Roma community is affected.

In this regard, the Advocacy Network for Sustainable and Systemic Solutions, the Roma NGO sector, the President of the International Roma Union (IRU) Zoran Dimov, as well as the informal RDS movement for the Roma Times stressed the need for the Directorate to be operational as soon as possible. strategy. To these questions for the Roma Times, the President of the International Roma Union (IRU) Zoran Dimov emphasized the following:

"First and foremost, the election of the head of the Directorate should be a person who will be non-partisan who will be ready to fulfill tasks and achieve results, to have a high level of education and to be elected through an open competition. I also suggest that care be taken with the team he will work with not to be narrow-minded people, on the contrary to look for professionals who will be fully committed to the tasks and fulfillment of the results.

I suggest that the Directorate be responsible for the implementation of the Strategy for Roma and that it be the leading institution in terms of representing the state policy in the direction of integration of Roma in society. The government must take care not to overlap the competencies and responsibilities with other structures that currently operate in some ministries.

In order to effectively implement, a constructive dialogue is needed with the representatives of the Roma community such as the MP Ms. Shikovska, Mr. Asan Ferat and other coalition partners from the Roma political bloc as well as the Roma NGO sector.

With the establishment of the Directorate for Implementation of the Roma Strategy, the Republic of Northern Macedonia will additionally send a clear signal to the European Union of the commitment to integration and addressing the needs of the Roma community in society. This will give a clear picture in the society that the Government of the Republic of Northern Macedonia is not only declarative but also in works for "One society for all" said Zoran Dimov.