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- From: irakliot@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Leo J. Irakliotis)
- Subject: Re: Ellemann-Jensen on Macedonia
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:09:31 GMT
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- In article <C85PERWE.93Jan23143806@kol2.IDA.LiU.SE>, c85perwe@IDA.LiU.SE (Per Westling) writes:
- |> So far everyone (at least here up north) has
- |> got the impression that it is the name that is the problem.
-
- The name of that FYRM is just the tip of the iceberg. There are other issues
- to be resolved, like the unacceptable Intro and articles 49 and 74 in their
- consitution.
-
- What the people up there in North as you say Per, cannot understand, is that
- the name "Macedonia" impplies the existence of an ethnic group called
- "Macedonians". There's none. The population in the GYRM is a mixture of
- many ethnic groups and none of them is Macedonian.
-
- What also most people fail to understand is the potential threat FYRM poses
- to the area. The "raison d'etre" of this artificial country is to gain an
- exit to the mediterranean --- obviously through Greek territories. And in such
- an event you understant that Greece will defend itself. Now how does it strike
- you to have a local war down there involving an EC and NATO and WEU member?
- All these organizations should move to assist Greece, right? That's the
- purpose of NATO and WEU: provide assistance to a defending member. So why
- the hell do we have all the way down, to get the international support we
- need now and resolve the issue peacefully and thru diplomatic channels?
-
- Greece is the only EC and WEU member in the region and can play a significant
- role to the welfare of the FYRM should the communists of Skopje get some common
- sense and drop their irrational demand on the name.
-
- Doesn't it strike you all too odd that they persist on that issue for more
- than a year? Anyother reasonable state would reconciliate, but not a state
- ruled by Communists (after all President Gligorov is a communist, face it).
-
- Doesn't it strike you all to odd that FYRM rejected all the initiatives for
- negotiations, arbitration etc?
-
- And aren't you concerned with the explicitly expressed objection of the 33%
- of the population of the FYRM that they don't want their country named
- Macedonia because such a name will suppress their Albanian ethnic identity?
-
- And aren't you surprised a bit that the US Government in 1944 fully endorsed
- what appears to be today the position of the Greek governemnt?
-
-
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- Leo J Irakliotis irakliot@eva.lance.colostate.edu
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