During the press conference of the  third Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum that took  place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 25 2009, the NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer responded to a question posed by a journalist from the State of Skopje.  With his question regarding the NATO membership of his country and made in the usual whining and arrogant way searching always for someone else to blame, the skopjan journalist […]

FYROMian A1 TV presents a photomontage of the statues which are planned for placement by the authorities in Skoplje’s central square, among which the largest is a statue of Alexander the Great.

Slobodan Ugrinovski, a Communist city councilor in Skoplje, states that the late Yugoslav dictator Tito is the most important figure for FYROM and that his era was pivotal to its creation.

Administration of the city of Skoplje provides insight into the process of building a monumental statue of Alexander the Great in the city’s central square.

NATO’s General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in a meeting with Branko Crvenkovski, warns about the possibility of a failure of referendum about country’s name, predicting a possibility of a security crisis.

Branko Geroski, editor-in-chief of “Sega” weekly, attacks the stubborn lack of desire by the Government of FYROM to find a compromise solution in the name dispute between Skoplje and Athens.

April 13, 2009 — FYROMian President-Elect Đorđe Ivanov meets with DUI leader Ali Ahmeti to negotiate future political strategies. At the contact with the press, Ivanov – visibly distressed – addressed journalist about the name dispute with Greece with а quite caustic tone.

Denko Malevski, First FYROM Foreign Minister after FYROM’s independence from the former Yugoslavia, in an interview to Greek TV: “As far as Alexander and his place in the history of the country (FYROM) is concerned, that is probably the result of POLITICAL PLANNING rather than historical truth.” “The idea that Alexander the Great belongs to us was in the minds […]