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- Subject: Greece reacts sharply to remarks by Danish foreign minister
- Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, war & peace,
- social issues
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:17:29 GMT
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- ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greece reacted sharply Thursday to remarks by
- Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen in support of European
- Community recognition of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
- Government spokesman Vassilis Magginas said Jensen ``attacked Greece
- without provocation,'' and was expressing his personal views, not those
- of the Community.
- He was responding to remarks made by the Danish minister in the
- European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in which he criticized Athens
- for using its veto to block EC recognition of the former Yugoslav
- republic under the name ``Macedonia.''
- Denmark currently holds the rotating presidency of the Community.
- Jensen said: ``Greece has acted unreasonably. I am ashamed of the Greek
- attitude.'' He said the other 11 members of the Community ``have just
- about had enough of Greece's obstruction.''
- The Greek government spokesman said Jensen's remarks were
- unacceptable, and Greece would raise the issue at the next meeting of E.
- C. foreign minister.
- Earlier, Minister of State Andreas Andrianopoulos read a statement to
- the press, issued after a Greek cabinet meeting, saying Greece condemned
- Jensen's remarks ``as being improper and unacceptable, since he makes
- groundless accusations.''
- Andrianopoulos said the Danish minister's remarks ``are contrary to
- the principles of Community solidarity,'' and contradictory to a
- decision on the issue taken at the EC summit in Edinburgh, Scotland, in
- November.
- Athens opposes the former Yugoslav republic's use of the name
- ``Macedonia,'' which is also the name a northern Greek province.
- Greek analysts say the issue dates back to the cold war era when Tito
- and Stalin used the name ``Macedonia'' for the republic as part of a
- conspiracy to seize Greek territory. Tito supported Communist guerrillas
- in the Greek civil war of 1947-49.
- The analyst said the group now in power in Skopje were simply
- continuing the Stalinist-era cold war policies, and the newly
- independent republic's use of the name indicated it still harbored
- expansionist designs on Greek territory.
- Jensen described Greece as an EC ``member-state which feels threatned
- by a country smaller than itself.''
- Western analysts said Greece has not made its point lucidly enough to
- the world community, and has failed to explain that the former Yugoslav
- republic of Macedonia was set up by a group responsible for terrorism in
- the Balkans before World War II.
- Greece's fears are justified, the analysts said, because the group
- had won respectability after coming to power, but hard-liners in the
- present Skopje government had to be viewed as potential troublemakers.
-