Unity is the key prerequisite for success, and in order to be more successful in the competition between nations, we must restore togetherness and restore awareness not of personal interest, but of the common good, Macedonian President StevoPendarovskisaid on Thursday at the awards ceremony on the occasion of 8 September – Independence Day.
The head of state recalled that on September 8, 1991, using the sovereign right of self-determination, we declared an independent state and joined the cultural competition between nations.
“The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of that great competition in which many states of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe worked hard to build stable and functional democratic institutions and integrate into the world. But even though we started from the same starting position and played according to the rules in certain periods as a country we faced double standards and biased judges that did not always allow us to evaluate the achievements fairly,”Pendarovski said.
