The President of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations FIAV and the President of the HGZD, Željko Heimer, addressed the participants of the 58th annual meeting of the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA 58) via video link with an introductory speech, which was held in St. Paul, the capital of the US state of Minnesota, from September 20 to 22, 2024. During the meeting, some dozen lectures were held, expert visits to Minnesota institutions, expert discussions, and the annual awards of the North American Vexillological Association were awarded. The meeting was attended by 112 participants in person and some twenty more via video link. The integral text of the FIAV President address was also published on the association’s website https://nava.org/nava-58, in which he also referred to the recently held 30th International Vexillological Congress in Beijing, and on that occasion he also presented the Fellow of the Federation award awarded there to the American vexillologist Jim Ferrigan.