The United Nations corrected the lapse and reentered the Macedonian language into the ID of Macedonia in the register of the UN. In the language column, “Macedonian” was inserted with and addition in brackets reading: (of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and a few hours later the column had is former look back before the unauthorized intervention took place, that is to say, without the explanation in brackets.

The correction has been made following the reaction from the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Macedonian Mission to the UN to the Office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Secretariat, which replied that the UN stayed true to its principles and the established practice as regards the use and naming of the Macedonian language.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assessed the omission of the Macedonian language as a subversive act and said that this would be an additional motive for an even stronger promotion of the Macedonian national and cultural distinctions on the international stage and for defending and promoting the Macedonian identity.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki had a phone conversation with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially stated. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reiterated that he personally, as well as the entire Organization of the United Nations, firmly believes that the national characteristics of any country should not change and that the language of any people, the Macedonian language in this particular case, should be respected.

Foreign Minister Milososki thanked Mr. Ban Ki-moon for his positive attitude concerning the Macedonian language and emphasized his content that the Macedonian language had its deserved place among more than 165 languages on the UN list.

The two officials shared views also of the process of talks between Macedonia and Greece about the name issue. Minister Milososki reiterated that the Republic of Macedonia was committed to the resolution of this issue and had political will to accelerate the process within the framework of the UN. He stressed that it would be beneficial if mediator Nimetz paid visits to the Republic of Macedonia and neighboring Greece soon and Mr. Bank Ki-moon said he would call for raising the dynamics of talks for bridging the differences between the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

President Gjorge Ivanov said the temporary deletion of the Macedonian language was a perfidious game and a serious indicator of everything Macedonia had faced since its independence.

“However, by demonstrating how such situations should be handled - by uniting ourselves around this problems and taking a prompt action - we have shown that we are not going to relent to anyone trying to change our identity in such a way and to take away what we have inherited from our ancestors and what we should keep for the future generations We are going to act in a similar way to any other similar attempt and we are going to keep our identity,” President Ivanov said in Split, Croatia.

He added that despite the perfidious games Macedonia stayed committed to the process of negotiations at the UN.

“We are a constructive factor contributing to a solution. However, in case of such perfidious attempts at influencing the entire process, we are going to use all our friends and connections we have in our diplomatic network,” President Ivanov said.

The political party DOM (Democratic Reconstruction of Macedonia) joined the activities against the deletion of the Macedonian language by collecting signatures.

“We are turning to UNESCO, as the highest authority for protection of culture and cultural heritage in the world and demand that it stop the discrimination against Macedonians and the Macedonian language. We demand permanent protection of the Macedonian language and the Macedonian identity and culture because with the disappearance of a language or culture, a part of the world cultural heritage disappears,” DOM president Liljana Popovska said.

She informed that the petition in Skopje would be signed for seven days before being provided to UNESCO.