Macedonian Heraldry Society

October 5th marked the 17 years of the adoption of the new flag of the Republic of Macedonia. The author of this flag, Miroslav Grcev tellsabout the  situation and process of the design and adoption of this flag.

The text of the English Heradld number 5 given in full

By the end of the summer of 1995 I was hired by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia to make a study, along with a graphical solution for a new state flag. The plan was to come up with several different ideas for the new flag in the first phase of the study, from which – in collaboration with the client –one would have been chosen which would have been acceptable for all actors on the political stage at the time. As a result of this study, a graphical solution of a new state coat of arms should have also been created, whose adoption by the Assembly, as an obligation from the Constitutional law, was already several years late. In an agreement with the client, the graphical solution of the state coat of arms was to be a secondary “product” and it had to contain the same motif and stylization as the flag. The work had to be done in an indecent amount of time, less than a month, and the political atmosphere in which the negotiations for the Interim Agreement with the Hellenic Republic (Greece) were held required that all the work was to be done in complete discretion. The coordinator of the project and the “program director” who made the decisions in the name of the client was the Minister of Internal Affairs at that time, Ljubomir Frchkoski.

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