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  Boris Trajkovski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boris (Kiril) Trajkovski (Macedonian: Борис Трајковски (June 25, 1956 – February 26, 2004) was president of the Republic of Macedonia (1999 - 2004).
Born in the village of Monospitovo, in the municipality of Murtino, near the Macedonian town of Strumica, from a Methodist family, Trajkovski graduated in 1980 with a degree in law from the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Trajkovski died on February 26, 2004 in a plane crash en route to an economic conference in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Trajkovski   (726 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Boris Trajkovski
The Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski, who has died in an air crash aged 47, will be most remembered for helping to coax his country back from the brink of civil war in the summer of 2001.
Trajkovski reacted by calling on the international community, including Nato, to increase its presence in the country, and by making concessions to the ethnic Albanians, including pledges of an amnesty for guerrillas fighting government forces if they disarmed voluntarily.
Trajkovski and his prime minister at the time, Ljubco Georgievski, both of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, were accused by the opposition Social Democratic Alliance of giving in to ethnic Albanian demands to enable them to stay in power.
www.guardian.co.uk /macedonia/story/0,7369,1157549,00.html   (769 words)

  
 The Epoch Times :: Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski Remembered as Man of Peace
Boris Trajkovski is credited with playing the central role three years ago in pushing through a NATO-brokered peace agreement that promised greater freedoms to the minority Albanians and ended ethnic bloodshed.
Trajkovski had not decided to seek a second term, he was likely to have done so.
Trajkovski died on the day that his prime minister was formally presenting to the European Union Macedonia's membership application.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-2-29/20182.html   (509 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Boris Trajkovski
Boris Trajkovski, the president of Macedonia, died on Feb. 26 in a plane crash.
Trajkovski worked as chief-of-office in the Skopje government administration for two years until he was appointed deputy foreign minister of Macedonia.
Trajkovski was en route to an international investment conference when his plane crashed 50 miles south of Sarajevo.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000795.html   (196 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - EU application is Macedonian president's legacy
Boris Trajkovski had been flying to an investment conference in Mostar when his plane crashed in mountains in the south of the country.
Trajkovski, who was 47, was elected president of the former Yugoslav republic in 1999.
Boris Trajkovski was born in 1956 in Strumica.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=8412   (809 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Obituary: Boris Trajkovski
Boris Trajkovski was only 43 when he was elected President of Macedonia in November 1999.
Mr Trajkovski, who died in a plane crash in Bosnia-Hercegovina on 26 February 2004, was born in Strumica, Macedonia, on 25 June 1956.
In 1997, Mr Trajkovski became chief-of-office in a Skopje local government administration, and in January 1999 he was appointed Macedonia's deputy minister of foreign affairs.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3488984.stm   (454 words)

  
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Trajkovski, tall and upright but not stiff, with rich brown hair, a prominent nose, and hands that are often open in welcome, exudes vigor.
Trajkovski says that Macedonia "is a model of the multireligious life" in the fractious Balkans, yet it is a model being tested by border fighting.
Trajkovski and the prime minister, often without comment, oversaw the dismissals of the heads of the counterintelligence agency, several heads of public enterprises, and government financial personnel.
www.goodnewsmag.org /magazine/4JulyAug/ja01boris.htm   (1907 words)

  
 FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate who helped united his ethnically divided Balkan country, was killed when his twin-engine turboprop crashed Thursday in thick fog en route to an international investment conference in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar.
Trajkovski, 47, was widely respected for his neutral stance in the former Yugoslav republic, where tensions persist between Macedonians and the country's ethnic Albanian minority after a 2001 war.
Trajkovski had been widely hailed for his efforts to get Macedonians and rival ethnic Albanians to live together in peace.
www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=15379   (669 words)

  
 Body of Macedonian leader found - World News - MSNBC.com
The death of Boris Trajkovski, a moderate, comes at a critical time for a nation still tense after its mostly ethnic Albanian minority took up arms in 2001 in a fight for greater rights.
Trajkovski was en route to an international investment conference in Bosnia when his small plane crashed Thursday in a remote, mountainous region still sown with mines from Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.
Trajkovski was widely respected for his neutral stance in the former Yugoslav republic.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4378033   (861 words)

  
 CNN.com - Macedonia leader feared killed - Feb. 26, 2004
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country, is feared to have been killed in a plane crash in southeastern Bosnia.
Confusion as to whether Trajkovski was indeed dead led to the issuing of early condolences from NATO and Ireland.
Before entering politics Trajkovski, who was married with a son and a daughter, studied theology in the United States, where he gave up communism and converted from Orthodox Christianity to become an ordained Methodist minister.
edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/26/macedonia.crash/index.html   (838 words)

  
 Frontiers of Freedom Mourns the Loss of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Trajkovski, 47, a member of the country9s center-right party, was a strong believer in free markets and the importance of establishing international economic relationships for Macedonia.
Macedonia, under President Trajkovski's leadership, was one of the first countries to publicly support Operation Iraqi Freedom and to commit troops to the effort.
President Trajkovski studied theology in the U.S. and was a Methodist minister as well as an attorney.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=26824   (354 words)

  
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Marovik states that Trajkovski worked on the strengthening of peace, stability and cooperation on the Balkans, that he gave huge contribution in the consolidation of the situation in Macedonia and deeply believed that the Balkans can and must be part of united Europe and a better place for living of all its citizens.
The telegram also states that Trajkovski's tragic death is a true loss for the country and the Balkans, because it occurred in the time of intensive efforts of the political forces in Macedonia for normalization of the political life in the state.
On occasion of the death of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and the delegation members, Prime Minister of Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina Ahmet Haxhipasik sent a note of condolences to the families of the victims, to the highest state bodies and to the Macedonian citizens.
www.sinf.gov.mk /english/radmila/socustva.htm   (4801 words)

  
 CNN.com - Trajkovski's body flown home - Mar. 3, 2004
Trajkovski was en route to an international conference last Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Trajkovski was a guarantor of a Western-brokered peace deal that ended six months of clashes between ethnic Albanian militants and government troops.
Trajkovski's state funeral is scheduled for Friday in Skopje.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/03/macedonia.crash.ap   (504 words)

  
 CNN.com - Trajkovski: Macedonia's peacemaker - Feb. 27, 2004
Trajkovski converted to Methodism and became an ordained minister.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, who has died in a plane crash, was a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country amid the bubbling, often bloody politics of the Balkans.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer praised Trajkovski, saying he "demonstrated great leadership to preserve the unity of his country when it was under threat," The Associated Press reported.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/26/macedonia.profile/index.html   (553 words)

  
 MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT TRAJKOVSKI TRAGICALLY DIED IN A PLANE CRASH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski tragically died on 26 February in a plane crash near Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
President of the Republic of Macedonia Boris Trajkovski was buried on Friday 5 March at the Arbored Walk of the Greats at "Butel" cemetery near Skopje, with highest state and military honours.
As we pay tribute to the memory of Boris Trajkovski today, we all share the pain and grief felt by his beloved wife Wilma, his children Stefan and Sara, his family and friends, and all his fellow Macedonians.
www.macedonianembassy.org.uk /Trajkovski_stranica.htm   (2592 words)

  
 Macedonian Herald - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
The inauguration in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia was held in the presence of many parliamentarians, the premier and the ministers, the former president of the country Kiro Gligorov, the diplomatic core, the representatives of the religious communities, as well as the government institutions.
As MIA informs, Trajkovski in the interview has estimated that the arrival of the tandem Georgievski-Trajkovski was characterized by the wide European public as something positive, having in mind their “background”.
According to Trajkovski, these statements are not reality based, and with him taking the position of president of the country and the involvement of all political parties in the elections, an integrating component was reached.
www.unitedmacedonians.org /newspaper/jan2000/eng_news.html   (3776 words)

  
 CNN.com - Trajkovski's death shocks Europe - Feb. 27, 2004
Trajkovski was traveling to an investment conference in Mostar.
Trajkovski, 47, was flying to the Bosnian city of Mostar for an international investment conference.
Trajkovski's reported death was a "blow to the whole region, not only for Macedonia," Croatian President Stipe Mesic said.
edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/26/macedonia.reaction   (662 words)

  
 [ NATO Summit 2002 ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
President Boris Trajkovski was inaugurated as the second president of the Republic of Macedonia on 15 December 1999.
President Trajkovski is dedicated to greater cooperation between states on behalf of the Republic of Macedonia.
President Trajkovski has participated in numerous international conferences on conflict resolution, religious tolerance, religious freedom, and served as president of youth work in the United Methodist Church in the former Yugoslavia for over 12 years.
www.rferl.org /specials/nato/boris-bio.asp   (188 words)

  
 Rumsfeld Press Briefing with FYR Macedonia President
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Boris Trajkovski of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia held a joint media availability May 2 after their meeting at the Pentagon.
Trajkovski: I would like to reiterate what I said yesterday to the Secretary Powell: stabilizing U.S. influence on the base of some military contingents still has to remain, and it's indispensable for the further development of the situation in the region.
President Trajkovski: Yes, there is a continuing cooperation on a bilateral base, and yes, we discussed for the needs of -- to be taken in account after the current situation took place in -- yes.
www.usembassy.it /file2001_05/alia/a1050205.htm   (1185 words)

  
 ssport.net - Macedonian News
Their representatives sent letters of condolences to the families, of President Trajkovski, his associates and the flight crew members, as well as to Macedonian Government and citizens.
"Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski's body and eight other bodies were found by the rescuing teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR and Macedonian representatives," Macedonian Government's spokesman Saso Colakovski informed.
Skopje, February 27 (MIA) - "Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski's body and bodies of the staff members were found by the rescuing teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR and Macedonian representatives," Macedonian Government's spokesman Saso Colakovski informed, pointing out that the information is still unofficial.
www.jeack.com.au /~bitola/newsmak194.html   (1398 words)

  
 Macedonian President Killed in Bosnia Plane Crash - by Christopher Deliso
In a sad irony, the 47 year-old Trajkovski was on his way to an investment conference in Mostar, just as Macedonia’s EU application was about to be officially presented in Ireland by Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski, said Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
Trajkovski, who was planning to celebrate Macedonia's application in Mostar, had worked tirelessly towards the goal of making Macedonia an EU member.
Trajkovski, from the southeastern town of Strumica, was a lawyer by training and one of the founders of the modern VMRO-DPMNE party.
antiwar.com /deliso/?articleid=2043   (1270 words)

  
 Macedonia's new president outlines vision of peace, healing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Boris Trajkovski noted that Lincoln "paid the ultimate price" to bring the United States back together after its civil war.
Trajkovski was largely responsible for handling the refugee situation, Wogaman said.
Trajkovski." Although suspicion was cast on some of the election results in western Macedonia, where most Albanians live, the rerun election assured his victory.
gbgm-umc.org /Mission/news/umns121599lbsc.stm   (803 words)

  
 Miko - 2004, March 05
President.” Sometimes, when we prayed, I referred to him as “my brother, Boris.” He wasn’t hung up on titles and ceremony and frankly didn’t care what people called him though I know he was a little bit hurt when some people in Macedonia referred to him as “citizen Trajkovski” during his first year in office.
Boris was always there for me and he told me about two weeks ago how he loved me. And I know his love was not limited to his family or friends.
Over the past four plus years of his mandate, Boris was able to mingle with the highest and mightiest on this earth and with the most humble.
www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/miko_20040305.html   (1252 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - A New Macedonian President
On Sunday 14 November, in the second round of the presidential election, Macedonians voted for Boris Trajkovski to succeed the 82-year-old, Kiro Gligorov.
After Sunday's electoral count, Boris Trajkovski from the ruling Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE), was declared the winner with 592,118 votes over Tito Petkovski, the candidate of the Social Democrats gained the support with 514,735 votes.
Trajkovski hit the headlines during the Kosovo crisis earlier this year, when he rightfully accused the Western Alliance of paying too little attention to Macedonia's pressing concern arising from the crisis - the influx of 300,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from the Serbian province.
www.ce-review.org /99/22/daskalovski22.html   (764 words)

  
 Macedonian President's Plane Crashes in Bosnia[was Macedonia President's Plane May Be Missing]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Macedonian government aircraft, carrying President Boris Trajkovski to the conference in the western Bosnian city of Mostar, lost contact with air-traffick controllers near the border between Bosnia and Montenegro, said Capt. Ben Thorp, a spokesman for U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia.
Trajkovski, 47, was elected in 1999 and was educated in the United States.
Boris Trajkovski, 47, was en route to an international investment conference in the western Bosnian city of Mostar, when his plane with six other officials and two pilots went down near the village of Bitonja shortly after 8 a.m.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1085784/posts   (3635 words)

  
 CNN.com - Q&A: Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski - March 21, 2001
The president of the Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, spoke to CNN about the crisis facing his country.
Trajkovski: The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups.
Trajkovski: The Macedonian Government is already represented in these bodies by Albanians and other ethnic groups.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/21/macedonia.pres   (793 words)

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