Macedonian AIESEC Alumni - President of the UN General Assembly!

UNITED NATIONS, May 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Former Macedonian Foreign Minister Srgjan Kerim has been elected president of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly. His term begins in September.

Kerim says he will work to support the reform processes initiated by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan and continued by current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Kerim is well known within the UN system, where he served as Macedonia's ambassador from 2001 to 2003.

In his acceptance speech on May 24, Kerim said he views the United Nations not only as a political forum but as a place of "networking" for business, educational, and other purposes.

A dream!

Last night i went in bed totally crashed. i felt like a bus hit me. slept for 12 hours. couldnt wake up this morning. but the interesting thing is that i had so intense dreams. woke up 3 or 4 times, and the story in the dream was just continuing.


so trying to gather the thoughts from the dream, but slowly they are fading away. i visited some dream interpretation sites, and found out some cool information, came out to be really related to what is going in my life at the moment:) no matter that i dont really believe in this stuff :)

i was dreaming magic and magician fight, real long adventure, just like some Harry Potter version. saving the world and my friends who were captured by the bad magician who was good at the time...

Recently i was questioning my work profile. i am starting to work for a good bank to see how that will work out for me, so i wonder what my contribution to society will be, probably i wont have any chances unless i create some cool CSR strategy there or similar. also have been watching some series with normal everyday hero's, doesnt matter if they are firefighters, brain surgeons or ER, or cops and influenced me a lot to think about this. also i was thinking if its possible to change career and become a firefighter or cop right now :)( i can see myself jumping into a fire and saving people), but i somehow made peace with the fact that i will have to be some economic help to the society:)

Also the fight means change in life. lots of decisions, i am graduating soon, starting a new job, and hopefully going abroad sometime after summer...

and the magic means happiness and success. things in life are going really good for me right now.. and magicians represent the travel abroad(i dont see how but..:)...hope that the magician will turn out to be from Australia/New Zealand or Peru/Chile region...for some 1-1.5 years.

however, its time to get back to reality and finish my 45 pages paper for university :)

My visual DNA!

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i find this really cool. the way that your eye catches the world around...

i also find it really accurate. never thought of it this way...you should check it out if you havent till now:)))

To be...or not to be!

Reading the news today about Eurovision(Europe song contest) and our Macedonian presence there, seems like there was a big fuss behind the stage, apart from the song contest. Apparently Greek delegation threatened the rest of the countries, if they dont call us FYROM when announcing the results, they will face sanctions.

Because i am writing a paper on EU, and its cultural and identity issues, made me think what is one state contained of. Realized that even that we are independent country for 16 years, we might not be in future time, so these couple of years are crucial for us. why?

Nationality and history, religion, culture and language are the pillars of identity of one state. so looking where we are as a state and what problems are we facing with our neighbors.

The name issue with Greece, FYROM means Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Yugoslavia doesnt exist anymore. how can we still have this name of non-existing country. Greeks are denying our existence and nationality. there is a lot of politics involved in this one. Seems like a won battle for us, cause no one calls us FYROM, but has its political implications, and the powerful Greek lobby is doing a great job out there(we changed our flag 15 years ago, and made us to accept the temporary name FYR Macedonia, but only for 10 years, time that has passed long ago, and there is still no agreement with Greece).

Serbian Church doesnt recognize the name of our church(Macedonian Orthodox Church). in Orthodox Christianity you have to be under some mother regional church. because we are the youngest one (together with Montenegro) we have to get under Serbian(and Serbia is under Greece), and not only that, but they are trying to establish new parallel church here(luckily that didnt work out).

And the language and culture, Bulgaria is denying our language and culture, saying that we are some ancestor of Bulgarians or whatever which is completely ridiculous and make me laugh, but the issue is still there( just have in mind that Macedonia is a biblical nation and one of the oldest, and there is 300.000 ppl Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, but they dont have the right to say that they are Macedonians).

And we had conflict with Albanian minority here 6 years ago. Pretty much the same as the rest of the Balkan conflicts...

So seems like everyone around wants to get a piece of our ass. so thats why there are all these issues opened. and they are shaking the pillars of our nations existence.

well, getting in EU(candidate country) and NATO(will get invitation to join in 6 months), means that we have to resolve this issues first, and that gives lack of time on these countries to pressure us to accept their ultimatum(Greece is threatening with veto and different economic embargo's, Bulgaria to accept their cultural heritage, Serbia to accept the parallel church to the one we have).

and our politicians are so stupid, that they are so divided with day to day issues and political marketing in order to stay or get on power, that they are completely lost. thank God we have support from big countries like US, Russia, UK, Germany, China to drive us and resolve this issue, otherwise we would be completely fucked up :)

well, instead of caring about economy(sucks), unemployment(one of biggest in Europe), democracy(we are kinda good on this one) and environment(going in bad direction) like everyone else, we are still stuck with this. and i am kinda tired of all this denial bullshit.

i look forward to the next couple of years when most of these things will be gone.

yeah, and one final thing...Dont you FYROM me, Say Macedonia :)!

Riding a wave!

i have the feeling that life is like a sea.

sometimes is calm, sometimes is wild. sometimes you have nothing to say, sometimes you have a lot to say. sometimes things are good, sometimes bad. sometimes there is nothing going on, sometimes there is a lot going on. sometimes you cant see more that 5 feet in front of you, sometimes you are at a top of a wave and see everything. sometimes there are no waves, sometimes you get from one to another all the time.



and it takes so little to start a wave. new opportunity, new experience, new friend, new people, new moment, that can trigger you and push you a little bit and start riding the wave. just a fresh breeze or a new rock thrown in the sea, that can make a wave.

and then is so fun to ride it. now i feel like riding on a tsunami wave, having so many thoughts, so many experiences, so many opportunities, so many reached goals and new goals to strive for, so many happy moments.

Writing new pages!!!

Just before i went to chair the conference, i had so many doubts. After so many conferences, how will i motivate myself to transmit energy?, am i the right person to chair this kind of conference?, how will the delegates look at me, when they haven't seen me for two years, or some they have never seen me...

well... its not just that i met wonderful people who just drive me up and inspired me, its not just that i transferred so much energy to them and they did the same to me, its not just that i clicked with different people about different things, not just that i refreshed my values, principles, attitudes, also friendships, networks, extremely cool people from companies.

Its that i found a lot of things about myself. i feel like a book. and while reading it, because i was inpatient to find out more and fast, i was skipping some pages. so now, i discover them. and they somehow make a perfect balance. and that make me really happy:).

also that the book will never be finished. there are always new and new pages popping up on the end. and just make me feel soooo excited for what will be next. really looking forward to that.

that is why i said that wont be my last conference. they are such intensive and powerful tool...