MACEDONIANS IN BRITTAIN SEND PROTEST LETTER
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The Association of Macedonians living in Britain sent a letter of protest to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Minister David Miliband, leader of the opposition Conservative Party David Cameron, MPs, party officials and media, over NATO decision to not extend a membership invitation to Macedonia at the Bucharest Summit as a result of Greece's veto.
The Association expresses its disappointment with the British Government and its failure to support Macedonia's membership at the Bucharest Summit, MIA's correspondent reported from London.
It is sad that Britain, as one of the leading NATO powers, at the Summit failed to urge for confirming of what all in the Alliance have been saying for years in a row, namely that Macedonia is ready to be a part of the North-Atlantic Alliance, the letter reads, criticizing all NATO members, including Britain, over their failure 'to stand against Greece.'
The letter also refers to the Greek propaganda, saying that 'a lot of money has been spent for lobbying across the world in a campaign that justifies Greece's demand for changing the name of the Republic of Macedonia', and for blocking the country's accession to NATO.
Macedonians, who live and work in Britain, called on the British Government and other state institutions to make efforts for putting an end to all unfriendly acts against Macedonia and to influence within NATO for accepting Macedonia's membership bid as soon as possible.
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FYROM
The ''Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'' has no connection with the Historical Macedonia of Alexander and the Greeks, since the term is used only because they live in a close geografical area of the Historical Greek Macedonia.
The present political regime, useless try to confuse their young citizens that their slavs ancestors mixed with indigenus greek macedonians,so to giustify the conflict about the name issue with Greece.
But the statements of different political officers of FYROM confirm the truth.
Indians, Persians, Afgans, Egyptians are more related to Macedonians and Greek culture than Slavs of FYROM.
a. The former President of The FYROM, Kiro Gligorov said: ";We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35).
b. Also, Mr Gligorov declared: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia ...; Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
c. On 22 January 1999, Ambassador of the FYROM to USA, Ljubica Achevska gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. In answering questions at the end of her speech Mrs. Acevshka said: "We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great ...; Greece is Macedonia';s second largest trading partner, and its number one investor. Instead of opting for war, we have chosen the mediation of the United Nations, with talks on the ambassadorial level under Mr. Vance and Mr. Nemitz." In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language.";
d. On 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, ";There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country."
e. Moreover, the Foreign Minister of the FYROM, Slobodan Casule, in an interview to Utrinski Vesnik of Skopje on December 29, 2001, said that he mentioned to the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, that they "belong to the same Slav people.";
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:56
So simple!
Goce Delchev, Jane Sandanski, Nikola Karev, Dame Gruev, Pitu Guli,....
GLORIOUS SLAVS
Alexander, Philippos, Aristotelis, Antiohos, Parmenion, Efestion....
GLORIOUS GREEKS
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:59
I believe that the 'Macedonian Society of Great Britain', also sent letters. It was founded in 1989 and its motto is Strabon's 'So, Macedonia is also Greece'.
Posted by
Anonymous |
16:34
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