- President Gjorge Ivanov addressed Thursday the 67th UN General Assembly in New York and said that today in the 21st century it is absurd to be referred to as former state or colony. Presenting the ICJ verdict from the UNGA floor, Ivanov called on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to invest his authority and become engaged in lifting the blockade to the name talks with Greece, as well as in respecting the ICJ ruling. Ivanov also cited the report of Gay McDougall, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, who in 2008 registered serious violations of the citizens of Greece in terms of freely expression of self-identification. Ivanov said that Macedonia is the only case in UN history that has its freedom for self-identification contested.