in 1991 after the country’s independence from the unified Yugoslavia, in order to resolve the dispute with Athens he was intent on promoting the name “Slavic Macedonia” .
In his article in the latest issue of the magazine “Focus” the former president of parliament Stojan Andov, discloses Gligorof’s movements who ultimately did not go any further, since he did not manage to have the sufficient amount of MPs’ to support him.
Stojan Andov stated that: “Gligorof had asked my personal opinion and asked me to convoke the parliament exceptionally in order to to proceed with the necessary changes in the Constitution and to rename the” Republic of Macedonia “to” Slavic Republic of Macedonia . Obviously, i explained to him that such a solution was not possible to go far, as he lacked the required amount of MPs’ in Parliament. ”
Basically the former president of FYROM parliament confirms what was revealed back in 2013 by the Greek ambassador in Belgrade Mr. Eleftherios Karagiannis.

Kiro Gligorof’s proposal was never taken any further, due to political developments in Greece as well as the change of government and his withdrawal . He was a man who defended the Slavic origin of the majority of residents of the country and as he characteristically publicly stated back in 1992 ” We are Slavs, we have no connection to Alexander the Great”.

Finally, In 2009 Kiro Gligorof gave his last interview to the Greek newspaper Proto Thema, and he had caustically and ironically stated that: Historians of great importance are laughing with everything that is happening in my country in the last years. Some historians of my country support that we exist on this soils 2000 years before Alexander the Great. It was so funny, that i couldn’t help my self and i commented that if we continue to think that way we will soon emerge to be the descendants of Adam and Eve, and Paradise will be proved to be our property. ”