General secretary of VMRO-DPMNE and doctor of historical sciences Gjorgjija Sajkoski at Sunday’s scientific symposium 129 years of VMRO “Struggle for Macedonia that lasts” spoke about the idea of an autonomous and independent Macedonia where he pointed out that today we have 129 years of continuity, struggle for autonomy, struggle for individuality, struggle for one’s own autonomous state.
“The challenges we face today in the 21st century to prove our uniqueness, our autonomy, our sovereignty were similar to those we faced in the 19th century, we in our own country, and they in the fight for their own country. Namely, at the beginning of the 19th century, Macedonia was part of the Ottoman Empire, an Ottoman Empire which in this period is in a severe, economic, political-social crisis with a lot of borrowing from foreign investors, with very bad infrastructure, with the displacement of maritime routes and with the awakening of some of the nations for which the struggle for their independence has just begun,” said Sajkoski.
