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President Ivanov

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2014-09-24
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  1. “It is necessary to strengthen institutions in all Western Balkan countries by funding programmes for deradicalization and counter-radicalization in order to ensure early prevention and the deployment of counter measures through programmes and action plans. We do not have the capacity to respond and address this threat by ourselves. We have limited financial capacity. We therefore need partners to build capacity and to counter violent extremism. We can deprive terrorist groups of the one resource that is most precious to them - new recruits - by reducing sympathy and support for extremism. We must be responsible. We must help each other. The stability and security of each State is an important link in the whole region.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  2. “Thirdly, we believe it is necessary to establish a regional counter-terrorism centre in the countries of the Western Balkans to work on identifying and assessing terrorism threats and to ensure operational coordination with a single centre that would monitor terrorist threats and targets at the regional level. The centre would also ensure operational cooperation on intelligence on terrorist groups, their networks, locations, capacities and intentions. That would serve to provide early warning, prevention and coordination of activities among law enforcement and intelligence services. There is no longer any excuse for blocking the initiative on European Union and Euro-Atlantic integration. Our region is vulnerable, and so is Europe.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  3. “I urge and expect the Council to be persistent in demanding unconditional respect for its resolutions. I expect the Council to be involved in View of ensuring respect for the verdict of the International Court of Justice in the Macedonia case. Secondly, we should accelerate the integration of the Republic of Macedonia and the other Balkan countries into the European Union. By postponing enlargement, the Union is creating a vacuum in what historically has been the poorest geopolitical space. And we all know that such vacuums are eventually filled. The European Union must not forget that the Balkans is part of Europe and that by postponing enlargement it creates a problem on its own territory. It is necessary that all of the Western Balkan countries be integrated into the European Union as soon as possible.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  4. “We are now blocked out of NATO and the European Union not just because of our name but also because of the identity and language of our citizens. The blockade is a result of a breach of resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993); a Violation of the 1995 Interim Accord that was deposited with the United Nations; and a violation of the 5 December 2011 judgment handed down by the International Court of Justice, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. It is for those reasons that we have not been able to find a mutually acceptable solution in the past 21 years. But it is also for those reasons that there exists an atmosphere of insecurity and instability in our region. The Security Council can and must contribute to peace, security and stability in the Balkans.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  5. “However, we should be aware that this is not a temporary but a permanent threat we must be prepared for. We must not rule out as impossible the sick scenarios and verbal threats from foreign fighters for the creation of a so-called Balkan caliphate. We are under a constant threat for which neither our region nor our countries are prepared. This is the diagnosis of the disease we face, but is there a remedy? I am confident that the remedy consists of three essential steps. First, the legal blockade of the Republic of Macedonia's rightfully deserved membership in NATO is also a serious blockade against peace, security and stability in the Balkans. At the beginning, we were blocked in the United Nations because of the name of our country.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  6. “Their number is constantly increasing and we can no longer count them. Among them are jihadists ready to carry out military operations for defensive and offensive jihad. Their interaction with foreign fighters creates a multinational structure that poses risks and danger. They have an external network of supporters in the West. They have the capability to plan, support and carry out attacks against the West ands its interests. Some have been there for three years; others are joining them now. Some are there to stay, but some are likely to return to the Balkans. When they come back, they will bring along their hatred of diversity and their devastating ideology, which will infect our vulnerable societies and States. For the time being, the Balkan region is not an operational base for international terrorist networks.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  7. “President Ivanov (spoke in Macedonian; interpretation provided by the delegation): The countries of South-Eastern Europe are facing a serious threat. The Balkan region is the first part of Europe on the bloody map of the so-called Islamic caliphate. I have to say with concern that the Balkans are already becoming a base for the recruitment and radicalization of new foreign fighters for global jihad. The foreign fighters from the Balkans in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Jabhat Al-Nusra are grouped into ethno-national platoons to export jihadist ideology back to their home countries and thus serve the wider goals of jihadism. No one can tell with certainty the exact number of foreign fighters from the Balkans involved in military operations in Iraq and Syria.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source