According to personal testimonies about the Macedonian Radio presented by the commander of the General Headquarters Mihajlo Apostolski and his co-fighters Veselinka Malinska, Vasko Petkovski, and Boro Dimitrovski, this radio station was operating on medium waves, the program went on for thirty minutes each day, and mainly news taken from "Free Yugoslavia" were broadcast, as well as the decisions made by
ASNOM, information from the Headquarters to the units and to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia.
At the central celebration in Pelince, at the
ASNOM Memorial Center, where the 70th anniversary of
ASNOM was marked, the guests were addressed by Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, while President Gjorge Ivanov held a speech at the central event in Skopje, next to the monument to Metodija Andonov-Cento.
August 2, Macedonia's Day of the Republic, marking this year the 110th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising and the 69th anniversary of the First Meeting of
ASNOM, was observed with a number of events in Krusevo, Pelince and Skopje.
At the First Meeting of
ASNOM on 2 August 1944, the deputies elected by the people proclaimed their modern state - Democratic Federal Macedonia - as a separate and equal constituent of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia.
With massive rallies at Meckin Kamen in Krusevo and at the
ASNOM Memorial Center in the Kumanovo village of Pelince, Macedonia celebrated both historic Ilindens: 109 years of the Ilinden Uprising and 68 years of the First Meeting of
ASNOM.