The identity of one nation belongs to those basic categories that can never be subject to compromise with anyone, said today the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, in a statement to the media regarding the reinstatement of the adjective “Macedonian” in the European Commission Report, as well as regarding his announcements that he will not accept the document if it the adjective is omitted.

President Ivanov, in a press statement on the sidelines of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said that it was worth all the efforts and political struggles to reinstate the adjective “Macedonian” in the report.

“As it is said among the people, if you do not fight you have lost the battle in advance. That is why I was so persistent precisely for this, because in the past two EC Reports it was left out. I have always reacted and will continue to react when our identity, in its entirety, is concerned, because identity belongs to those basic categories that can never be subject to compromise with anyone”, President Ivanov said, adding that we must always react appropriately when there are attempts for denying something that belongs to us.

The Head of state due to the omission of the adjective “Macedonian” in the previous two reports of the European Commission, last year and in 2010, sent letters to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, in which he pointed out that such a practice of Brussels is insulting the feelings of the Macedonian people. President Ivanov, in the letters to Barroso, emphasized that it does not help in finding a solution to the imposed name dispute by Greece.

The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, in the annual address before the members of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia in December 2011, announced that he will not receive the new EC report if it does not contain the adjective “Macedonian”.