Chief of the General Staff (North Macedonia)

Chief of the General Staff
Chief of the General Staff
Началник на Генералштабот; Načalnik na Generalštabot
	Incumbent; Maj. General Vasko Gjurchinovski; since 18 August 2018
	Ministry of Defence
Member of	General Staff
Reports to	Minister of Defence
Appointer	President of North Macedonia
Formation	19 March 1992
First holder	Maj. General Mitre Arsovski

The Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia (Macedonian language: Началник на Генералштабот на Армија на Република северна Македонија) 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]

№		Chief of the General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	Arsovski, MitreMajor General Mitre Arsovski (born 1936)	16 March 1992	3 March 1993	352 days
2	Bocinov, DragoljubColonel General Dragoljub Bocinov (1933–2003)	3 March 1993	22 January 1996	2 years, 325 days
3	Krstevski, TrajčeGeneral Trajče Krstevski [mk] (1938–2017)	22 January 1996	11 February 2000	4 years, 20 days
4	Andrevski, JovanColonel General Jovan Andrevski (born 1938) ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	11 February 2000	12 June 2001	1 year, 121 days
5	Petrovski, PandeGeneral Pande Petrovski (1943–2006)	12 June 2001	19 September 2001	99 days
6	Stamboliski, MetodiGeneral Metodi Stamboliski (born 1947)	19 September 2001	12 March 2004	2 years, 175 days
7	Bojadžiev, GjorgjiMajor General Gjorgji Bojadžiev (born 1950)	12 March 2004	6 July 2005	1 year, 116 days
8		Stojanovski, MiroslavLieutenant General Miroslav Stojanovski (born 1959)	6 July 2005	18 August 2011	6 years, 43 days
9		Koteski, GorančoMajor General Gorančo Koteski (born 1965)	18 August 2011	18 August 2015	4 years, 0 days
10	Velichkovski, MetodijaLieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski (born 1966)	18 August 2015	18 August 2018	3 years, 0 days
11	Gjurchinovski, VaskoMajor General Vasko Gjurchinovski (born 1970)	18 August 2018	Incumbent	7 years, 85 days

Notes[]

↑ Resigned during the 2001 insurgency.

References[]

↑ "Former Chiefs of the General Staff" (in Macedonian). http://morm.gov.mk/?page_id=815&lang=mk. Retrieved 13 February 2019.

External links[]

Previous chiefs of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia (in Macedonian)
Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia (in Macedonian)

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[2] Resigned during the 2001 insurgency.

[1] "Former Chiefs of the General Staff" (in Macedonian). http://morm.gov.mk/?page_id=815&lang=mk. Retrieved 13 February 2019.

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