The Ministry of Interior of North Macedonia has reacted after the incident with the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani at the Skopje Airport.

It stated that today around 10:00 at the Skopje International Airport, while President Osmani was going through border control, at the moment when she was asked to pass the phone through the scanner, a person from her security left the TAV employee, for her to pass without a scanned phone and hand luggage.

"But then the luggage came back and went through a scanner. After half an hour, a person from the security of the President of the Assembly Gashi (policeman) came with two other people (policemen) and started threatening TAV workers and asking who caused the problem to the president. At the same time, he also pushed a police officer who was working at the border point", says the announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of North Macedonia.

It is emphasized that the Department for Internal Control, Criminal Investigations, and Professional Standards was immediately notified and that measures are being taken to clarify the case.

Regarding this incident, the President's media advisor Bekim Kupina said that contrary to any international practice, the airport official tried to take her phone and then tried to physically push the President, in which case the Kosovo Police were forced to react to open the way.