A response to Spectator's biased article...Journalism ethics concern other papers, and countries, certainly not the owners of UK paper SPECTATOR.The prize for the worst policy should go to Mr. Gruevski actually. If I am not mistaken Greece agreed the nation to be called "Macedonia" as long as they included in the name a geographical specification. Like North Macedonia or Upper Macedonia or something like that.
So why is Greece wrong?
In slavo Macedonian schools, children are taught that Greece is occupying their land. That Greece was "given" 50% of their land in 1913 in the treaty of Bucharest. This proves Greece's claims that the insistence of Mr. Greuvski on calling the country just "Macedonia" has obvious territorial claims on Greece. The slavo Macedonian children are purposely being confused in thinking that the division of a Territory in 1913 which was called Macedonia and on which Greeks, Turks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Jews, Vlachs and other slavs lived during the ottoman empire belong just to them, the so called current Republic of(slavo)Macedonia. These ultra nationalistic views endorsed by the government were used by Mr. Gruevski to win the elections.
These Slav people have the right to be called whatever they want as long as they do not steal and plagiarize the history of another nation and as long as they don’t claim territory from another nation.
Really we should not expect Greece to put up with such behavior. Someone should wake up these Slavic people and have them smell the coffee. Mr. Greuvski’s policies and only his, should be blamed for his countries isolation…The prize for the worst policy should go to Mr. Gruevski actually. If I am not mistaken Greece agreed the nation to be called "Macedonia" as long as they included in the name a geographical specification. Like North Macedonia or Upper Macedonia or something like that.
So why is Greece wrong?
In slavo Macedonian schools, children are taught that Greece is occupying their land. That Greece was "given" 50% of their land in 1913 in the treaty of Bucharest. This proves Greece's claims that the insistence of Mr. Greuvski on calling the country just "Macedonia" has obvious territorial claims on Greece. The slavo Macedonian children are purposely being confused in thinking that the division of a Territory in 1913 which was called Macedonia and on which Greeks, Turks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Jews, Vlachs and other slavs lived during the ottoman empire belong just to them, the so called current Republic of(slavo)Macedonia. These ultra nationalistic views endorsed by the government were used by Mr. Gruevski to win the elections. These Slav people have the right to be called whatever they want as long as they do not steal and plagiarize the history of another nation and as long as they don’t claim territory from another nation.
Really we should not expect Greece to put up with such behavior. Someone should wake up these Slavic people and have them smell the coffee. Mr. Greuvski’s policies and only his, should be blamed for his countries isolation…
IAN MATHER
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