History of Macedonia

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Irredentist map of “United Macedonia” in a primary school of FYROM


Ochrid, (FYROM) – An irredentist map of the so-called “United Macedonia” has been placed in the primary school, “Grigor Prlitchev” in the city of Ochrid revealing the Irredentist dreams of Slavs in FYROM is still alive and kicking.

This school gathers students from all the ethnic backgrounds of the local area and the irredentist map is found inside a classroom on its white wall.

“The display of this irredentist map reveals the ambitious plans of Slavs in their educational system, when Albanian youths were arrested and threatened with imprisonment because they had drew an Albanian map with graffiti”, says an Albanian newspaper.

Just 20 days ago, an incident had taken place in FYROM which revealed the amazing double standards of FYROM’s government. Apparently a small number of Ethnic Albanians apparently drew graffiti with a “Greater Albania” map near Tetovo’s entrance and burned a FYROM’s flag.

The rampant, blatant hypocrisy is that they are heavily condemned and even face serious charges of the FYROM’s criminal code who could send them to prison, by a country whose own PM had bowed in front of a map of the so-called “United Macedonia“.

In the meantime, FYROM’s Media Slammed the country’s Ethnic Albanians about the incident and FYROM’s analysts managed to fuel the interethnic tensions.For instance, university Professors from the country had stated in FYROM’s Media that all these incidents “were no coincidences” and “The idea of Greater Albania is still alive.”

Would they admit now after this new incident that their own Nationalistic concept of “Macedonianism” and the fantasy of a “United Macedonia” that it represents, is no “still alive”? Or they will conveniently ignore it eventhough it takes place in a primary school, taking their tremendous hypocrisy to new heights?
Source:
History-of-Macedonia

Friday, December 02, 2011

Macedonia News -- FYROM gets Invitation only after Name Solution

220px Philip T. Reeker Macedonia News   Reeker : First a Name Solution, then a Membership Invitation

Macedonia News – Philip Reeker, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during a meeting with journalists in Washington, spoke about the Name Issue and FYROM’s Membership Invitation.

According to Zurnal, the US diplomat commented on the Issue, “The name issue between the two countries is not something that someone else can solve in their favor.” Later he added, “US cannot do this for the two countries.”

He also mentioned that both countries were encouraged for many years to reach a name solution while Papandreou and Gruevski had met several times and discussed about the issue. Additionaly he reaffirmed the support of US to the efforts of UN mediator Matthew Nimetz.

While asked about the opinion raised recently by the former NATO ambassador, Kurt Volker, namely that FYROM could join NATO under the reference FYROM and to solve the Name Issue later, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State was more than clear and reminded once more NATO’s Ultimatum:

“It has been said very clearly and many times that the country will get an invitation for membership after the name dispute is settled,” he added while he repeated that his country will keep up to encourage both countries in order to reach to a mutually acceptable solution.


Read more http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/12/02/macedonia-news-reeker-name-solution-membership-invitation/

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