The UN General Assembly is today set to elect former Macedonian former foreign minister Srgjan Kerim as president for the 62nd session of the 192-member body.
The post, currently occupied by Sheika Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain, rotates annually on a regional basis, and Mr Kerim was selected by Eastern European nations.
He was foreign minister in 2000 and 2001 after which he served as his country's UN ambassador. Before that, he was ambassador to Germany, Lichtenstein and Switzerland and held several posts in the foreign ministry of the former Yugoslavia.
He is due to assume the job in September, with his nation under a temporary name at the United Nations - the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Many nations refer to it as the Republic of Macedonia. Since 1993 when Macedonia joined the United Nations, Greece has objected to its name and constitution, saying they were statements of territorial ambitions against Greece's northern province of Macedonia, home to two million Greeks.