The World Macedonian Congress is an extreme nationalist organization founded on 15 September 1990 in Gevgelija

Gevgelija

Gevgelija is a town with a population of 15,685 located in the very southeast of the Republic of Macedonia along the banks of the Vardar River, situated at the country's main border with Greece , the point which links the motorway from Skopje and three other former Yugoslav capitals with...

, SFR Yugoslavia (today's Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

). The organization considers itself as a non-formal World Parliament of the Macedonians

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 from all parts of Macedonia

Macedonia (region)

Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...

  and the whole world. The World Macedonian Congress was the second of the two international lobby organizations or World Macedonian Congresses established in the Republic of Macedonia with the disintegration of Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito

Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

's Yugoslavia. It was created as a rival to the first World Macedonian Congress (created by John Bitove, a Canadian-Macedonian businessman with the encouragement of the first president of the Republic of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov

Kiro Gligorov

Kiro Gligorov , born May 3, 1917) was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Macedonia. His son Vladimir Gligorov is the refounder of the Serbian Democratic Party.- Biography :...

) by the opposition (VMRO-DPMNE) politician Todor Petrov

Todor Petrov

Todor Petrov, born March 19, 1960 in Gevgelija, Republic of Macedonia is the president of the World Macedonian Congress....

 and current president of the Congress. Petrov claimed the Congress was created partly to replace the "Institute for the Macedonian Diaspora", which had been discredited through its past association with the Yugoslavian secret service.

Niche Dimovski, the vice-president of the World Macedonian Congress, wrote and produced the "Macedonian Prayer", which aired in a 9 minute video on Macedonian Radio-Television

Macedonian Radio-Television

Macedonian Radio Television is the public broadcasting organization of the Republic of Macedonia. It was founded in 1993 by the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia...

 (the public broadcasting organization of the Republic of Macedonia), in which the God is presented calling the people of the Republic of Macedonia the oldest nation on Earth and progenitors of the "white race" who are described as "Macedonoids" in opposition to "Negroids" and "Mongoloids".

External links

• Official web site of the World Macedonian Congress (discontinued, 2010)