Chief of the General Staff (North Macedonia)
Appearance
Chief of the General Staff | |
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Началник на Генералштабот Načalnik na Generalštabot | |
since 18 August 2018 | |
Ministry of Defence | |
Member of | General Staff |
Reports to | Minister of Defence |
Appointer | Stevo Pendarovski President of North Macedonia |
Formation | 19 March 1992 |
First holder | Maj. General Mitre Arsovski |
Deputy | Maj. General Muhamet Islam Racaj |
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The Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia (Template:Lang-mk) is the Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia.
History
Nine people served as the Chiefs of the General Staff since the independence of the Republic of North Macedonia from Yugoslavia. The first Chief was Major General Mitre Arsovski (appointed on 16 March 1992), and the current Chief is Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski (appointed on 18 August 2015).
The shortest-serving Chief of the General Staff was General Pande Petrovski (about 3 months), and the longest-serving was Lieutenant General Miroslav Stojanovski (over 6 years)
List of chiefs of the general staff
Chiefs of the General Staff have been:[1]
No. | Portrait | Chief of the General Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Mitre Arsovski (born 1936) | Major General16 March 1992 | 3 March 1993 | 352 days | |
2 | Dragoljub Bocinov (1933–2003) | Colonel General3 March 1993 | 22 January 1996 | 2 years, 325 days | |
3 | Trajče Krstevski (1938–2017) | General22 January 1996 | 11 February 2000 | 4 years, 20 days | |
4 | Jovan Andrevski (born 1938) [a] | Colonel General11 February 2000 | 12 June 2001 | 1 year, 121 days | |
5 | Pande Petrovski (1943–2006) | General12 June 2001 | 19 September 2001 | 99 days | |
6 | Metodi Stamboliski (born 1947) | General19 September 2001 | 12 March 2004 | 2 years, 175 days | |
7 | Gjorgji Bojadžiev (born 1950) | Major General12 March 2004 | 6 July 2005 | 1 year, 116 days | |
8 | Miroslav Stojanovski (born 1959) | Lieutenant General6 July 2005 | 18 August 2011 | 6 years, 43 days | |
9 | Gorančo Koteski (born 1965) | Major General18 August 2011 | 18 August 2015 | 4 years, 0 days | |
10 | Metodija Velichkovski (born 1966) | Lieutenant General18 August 2015 | 18 August 2018 | 3 years, 0 days | |
11 | Vasko Gjurchinovski (born 1970) | Major General18 August 2018 | Incumbent | 6 years, 117 days |
See also
Notes
- ^ Resigned during the 2001 insurgency.
References
- ^ Ministry of Defence. "Former Chiefs of the General Staff". morm.gov.mk (in Macedonian). Retrieved 13 February 2019.