On September 8, 1991, a referendum was held in Macedonia (now North Macedonia), as a result of which the vast majority of residents (95.3%) voted for the country’s sovereignty, proclaiming independence.
this happened within the framework of the Yugoslav crisis, which led to the collapse of the state in 1991-2008. In the early 1990s, political conflicts and conflicts broke out in the former Yugoslavia, as a result of which Macedonia proclaimed its independence.
many countries, including Turkey, recognized a new state called the Republic of Macedonia.
Kiro Gligorov became the first president of the Republic of Macedonia in 1991, after the proclamation of independence. On April 26, 1992, the country brought into circulation its own currency – the Macedonian denar. In August 1992, the army of the Republic of Macedonia was formed.
the Republic of Macedonia (later renamed North Macedonia) was unanimously adopted at the UN on April 8, 1993 under the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Burm) due to a dispute with Greece about the name. 8 The UN General Assembly unanimously accepted the country as members of the organization.
immediately after gaining independence from Yugoslavia, North Macedonia set itself strategic goals to join the European Union and NATO.
Northern Macedonia became a member of NATO on March 27, 2020. The country also has the status of a candidate for joining the European Union since 2004 and has been striving for full membership.
for many years between Greece and Macedonia, negotiations were underway on the name of the country that were not always consistent and interrupted. The dispute was not allowed by the signing of the UN in 2018 in 2018 of the Prescan Agreement and the renaming of the Republic of Macedonia to the Republic of North Macedonia.
a referendum in the Republic of Macedonia on the approval of a contract with Greece, which provides for a change in the name of the country, was held on September 30, 2018. Citizens of the former Yugoslav Republic were invited to answer the question: do you support the EU and NATO membership, accepting an agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Greek Republic?.
91.46% of the total number of voters, 5.65%,
northern Macedonia, which began negotiations on the entry into the EU, spoke out. His first intergovernmental conference in 2022 should, among other things, include the Bulgarians in his constitution.
According to the planned amendments, in the Constitution of Northern Macedonia, the list of nationalities “Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Valahs, Serbs, Tsygans, Bosyns should be supplemented with the phrase” Bulgarians, Horivata, Horivata, Horivatia Montenegrins, Slovenes, Jews and Egyptians. “