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- From: deltah@ccs.northeastern.edu (Hariklia Delta)
- Subject: Re: Is Macedonia a Greek province?
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:22:18 GMT
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- > You say you are talking about a name. Suppose the Republic of Macedonia
- > is recognized? What policy should Greece take then?
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- Greeks have no objections of this country to be recognized as long as they
- they don't include the term "Makedonia" in their name.
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- > Where do you think the borders of Greece should lie? As under Alexis II?
- > As under Basil II? Or Heraclius or Alexander?
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- What about where they are now?
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- > The answer is that I think the stand taken by Greece is absurd.
- > It is equivalent to the United States of America not recognizing
- > the United States of Mexico.
- ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^
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- No it is not. The term "United States" denotes the way the country is organized
- i.e in states and it has nothing to do with history or geographic location. Your
- example would have been correct *only* in the case that Greece didn't want this
- no-name-country to include the term "Democracy" in its title (after all Democracy
- was a Greek "invention" as well) but this is not the case. They are more than
- welcome to be called a "Democracy" or a "Republic" (if they wish to be a
- Democracy of course :) ). The way they want to rule their state is there
- business but our history is ours.
- Of course I assume that in your example the hypothetical objection of U.S.A is
- on the "United States" part of the name since I find it unlikely that they would
- (hypothetically of course) object on "United States of Mexico" but agree on
- "United States of Tanzanika" :)
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- Enjoy,
- Xapa.
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