If we go into the character of the relations which we have achieved with the neighboring countries, it comes out that we don't have a big positive balance. On the other hand, because of the lack of consensus, not only of the political relations, we suffer in those negotiations. We don't have to prove how endurable we are or how definitively determined we are in defending the most holy, let's say, postulates of the Macedonian being in this dispute. We should look after the interests of the citizens and the interests of the state. For such a situation a responsibility should be overtaken.
Repercussions are huge.
When the political system doesn't function in its integrity, the changes can be conducted without any regulated political relations and without definite rules of the game. In that case, too, we have to say where we stand or to go into that problem much more seriously. During the talk with the President Gligorov, there was mutual content expressed about the continual development of the Macedonian - Japanese relations and the cooperation in many fields of common interest. Mutual is the estimate that the total level of contacts is raised and that the interest for economic, scientific and technical and cultural cooperation with both countries is increased. On his request, the Japanese Ambassador was acquainted with the popular matters and with the attitudes of Republic of Macedonia about the situation in the region.