Medal for Courage
President of the Republic of Macedonia, George Ivanov for the first time awarded with the Medal for bravery and distinguished Mr. Sami Nuredini for exceptional courage and sacrifice in saving human lives in difficult and dangerous conditions from the waters of the river Vardar.
The Medal for courage for exceptional courage and dedication in carrying out assigned tasks in extremely difficult and dangerous conditions in the action for the extraction of dead miner from the mine “Bucim” was awarded to Colonel Orce Jordev, Major Dragancho Vojneski, Major Dimce Velkov, Senior Sergeant Stojce Stoilov, senior sergeant Zoran Zoran and sergeant Ristov Trajkov.