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Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov speaks during an interview in his offices in Skopje in this May 18, 1999 file picture. Macedonia's former president Kiro Gligorov, a veteran politician that helped lead the small Balkan country into independence in the early 90' passed away at his home at the age of 94, his office said on January 2, 2012. Born in 1917, Gligorov was elected as Macedonia's first president in 1991, after serving for decades as an economist in the ruling bodies of communist Yugoslavia. REUTERS/staff (MACEDONIA - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)