Kiro Gligorov

Quotes

• “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century (AD)... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians.”
• “We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Great and his Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians no longer exist, they had disappeared from history long time ago. Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century (AD).”
• “We are all Macedonians. We are all citizens of this country and Albanians have a long-term interest to integrate themselves in this country. This does not mean that they should lose their national, cultural and linguistic characteristics.”
• “In the ethnically-mixed Balkans, it is impossible to create compact national states in which only members of one nation can live. This is an absurdity which can hardly be realized in Europe... Perhaps one nation can win a victory here and there, but then this would only lead to revanchism on the part of the others, and thus, there would never be an end [to warfare].”
• “In this part of the world it is difficult to find the true path between reason and emotion, myth and reality. This is the burden of the Balkans, which prevents us from becoming truly European.”

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Key facts

Prime minister

Nikola Kljusev , Branko Crvenkovski , Ljubčo Georgievski

Vice president

Ljubčo Georgievski (1991)

Preceded by

Vladimir Mitkov (as President of the SR Macedonia )

Succeeded by

Boris Trajkovski

Born

( 1917-05-03 ) 3 May 1917, Štip , Bulgarian-occupied Serbia

Died

1 January 2012 (2012-01-01) (aged 94), Skopje , Macedonia

Citizenship

Yugoslav/Bulgarian/Macedonian

Party

LCY / LCM (1940s–1991) SDSM (from 1991)

Spouse

Nada Misheva ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1943 ; died 2009 ) ​

Children

3, including Vladimir

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Wikidata facts

Image

Киро Глигоров 03 (28-01-1993).jpg

Number of children

3

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