The “Macedonian Question,” which had developed into a generally known question for over a century, ceased to exist in its classical sense after the fall of Yugoslavia and the consequent creation of the independent Macedonian State.
After the Second World War, the international community entrusted the United Nations with governing the former colonial territories of Japan and Italy, then contested areas, such as was the city of Trieste, and finally by the cases of the late 1980s which marked the beginning of a new era of peacekeeping missions
When, in 1991, Macedonia appeared on the international scene as an independent state, I became assured in practice that there is another truth about the role of the great powers in world politics than the one inscribed in our historical memory – namely, that they are hardly eager to suppress us under their authority.