THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN THE NATIONAL AND STRATEGIC PROGRAMS OF THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES

Abstract

After the fall of the Berlin Wall the Balkan states entered a period of
complex socio-political relations and even armed conflicts, the
consequences of which are felt today. During this period many acts,
programs, political documents, proclamations, memoranda, etc., have
been created among which there are documents tackling certain
historical, national and political issues, issued by academic institutions
that are supposed to be relevant and respected.
After Macedonia’s independence certain institutions from neighboring
countries published texts raising questions about Macedonia’s state,
nation and language. In this context we can mention the Memorandum of
the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) (Memorandum
1985), the Memorandum of the Macedonian Academic Institute in Sofia1
(Memorandum, 1997), the publication entitled “The Skopje icon –
Blazhe Koneski” (Dragnev, 1998), the Bulgarian national doctrine
“Bulgaria in the 21st century”2
by the Bulgarian National Center in 1998,
the Platform on the Resolution of the Albanian National Question by the
Albanian Academy of Sciences (AAS), and others.