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Greek Ambassador to Skopje comments FM Poposki's statements
14. March 2012. | 10:14
Source: MIA
Since the conclusion of the Interim Accord, Greece has applied its letter and spirit in good faith and expressed no intention to suspend or to terminate in whole or in part the operation of the document, Greek Ambassador to Macedonia Αlexandra Papadopoulou said Monday in a written statement.
Since the conclusion of the Interim Accord, Greece has applied its letter and spirit in good faith and expressed no intention to suspend or to terminate in whole or in part the operation of the document, Greek Ambassador to Macedonia Αlexandra Papadopoulou said Monday in a written statement with respects to recent assertions of Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, including in an interview to the local press, that Greece has "suspended unilaterally the legal bilateral framework and has the agreement (Interim Accord) in suspension."
However, Macedonia on its part has never accepted the Interim Accord as a synallagmatic agreement imposing parallel and reciprocal obligations on both parties, reads the press release of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje.
"Its Government, especially after the NATO Bucharest Summit in 2008, has been engaged in an unprecedented policy of hostility and irredentism against Greece by continuing its appropriation of Greek historical symbols, the use of the Sun of Vergina, and by openly casting doubts on the actual territorial status quo of the South Balkans," the press release reads.
The Greek Government, it says, has lodged in the past years many written protests with the authorities of Macedonia showing that these activities egregiously violate the spirit and the letter of the Interim Accord and undermine the friendly relations between the two countries.
Likewise, in the above protests Greece has been calling upon the Government of Macedonia to abandon its irredentist aspirations and pretensions as well as to desist from its illegal activities against Greece and to participate in good faith in the negotiations for the resolution of the name issue under UN auspices.
"The Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has ignored these calls and instead of focusing in good faith on the above UN led negotiations is now engaged in a new effort to discredit Greece and divert the attention of the international community from the resolution of the difference over its name despite the fact that continuation of the difference seriously undermines the stability of the whole region," the press release reads.
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15. March 2012. 08:27:39
| Ime
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Hmmm...Who is Ambassador Papadopoulou trying to kid by accusing the Macedonian Government of irredentism
On the contrary, it is the Greek Government that has taken the word “IRREDENTIZM” to a new level.
It must not be forgotten; The International Court of Justice carefully examined every accusation and counter accusation from both sides.
The Court found no evidence of deliberate acts of provocation by the Macedonian side.
By now however, the whole World is fully aware of the list of illegal and immoral activities carried out by Greece against Macedonia and its people.
16. March 2012. 13:29:13
| Ime
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No signs? Try the gigantic statues to fit the gigantic egos of Gruevski et al. Of course that band of pretenders is
Trying very hard to rewrite history. History has been written and can't be changed to suit the former Yugoslavians.
16. March 2012. 23:16:52
| Ime
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The ICJ court verdict is a joke if it couldn't find any evidence of irredentism by FYROM. (and the very fact it couldn't is clearly evidence of prejudices against Greeks)
Visit practically any FYROM website...
a. They will claim they are decendents of ancient macedonians (and hide the fact most of them are actually direct decendents of 19th century self-identifying Bulgarians.
b. They have been egged on by their government, media and even fake "human rights" groups to believe this (aka nationalist fronts using more word play) with endless stream of historical propaganda.
c. They then use the above to imply Macedonia Greece is divided territory and "occupied" by Greeks
FYROM isn't even in the original Kingdom of Macedonia. FYROM nationalists (and its obviously Greek hating apologists) confuse modern and ancient nomenclature. Ancient Macedonia is already in Greece. The funny thing about the whole situation that FYROM's apologists have all missed, by now claiming to be related to ancient Macedonians, and ancient Macedonians self-identifying as Greeks, they are essentially claiming to be Greeks.
Identity is a human right. Not identity theft. FYROM supporter are supporting evil.