Bakoyiannis denies existence of minority

[Truth Bearer]

Bakoyannis denies existence of Macedonian minority in Greece
Skopje, 27.10.2006 13:58
There is no Macedonian minority in Greece, said Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis in an interview with Macedonian newspaper Dnevnik.

Bakoyannis appears skeptical on eventual shift in Athens' position over the issue, regardless of the fact that a number of relevant European institutions, as well as the Americans, recognize the existence of Macedonian minority.

Asked whether there has been any progress in Greek position over the Macedonian minority, in particular now "when Macedonians in Greece became a fact for the Council of Europe, for the European Parliament, for the US Department of State..." Greek foreign minister said "she is very proud with the quality of Greek democracy", adding that Muslims in Western Thrace are the only minority in Greece.

"There is no so-called Macedonian minority. Whenever a political form of the name of the so-quoted or unquoted 'minority' comes up, it always failed to muster nationwide support," Bakoyannis said.

Makfax news agency underscores that over the past few years the Council of Europe, the US Department of State, and the OSCE have called on Greece to respect the rights of Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish minority including the human rights of Roma.

Greece is among a few countries in Europe which have not yet ratified the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities although they had signed it.

Macedonian minority in Greece has been subjected to permanent assimilation since 1913, when Greeks, in the course of the then Balkan wars, had conquered almost half of Macedonia's territory upon treaties with Serbia and Bulgaria.

Macedonian minority and the violence it has been subjected to, was on the agenda of many debates in the League of Nations since the beginning of the past century, as well as in debates in the UN Security Council, the legal successor of the League of Nations, some 10 years after the World War II.

The issue of Macedonian minority in Greece was later hushed up through bilateral public and secret collusions between the Former Yugoslavia and Greece, through silent consent of vast majority of communist leadership in Macedonia in the period of early 70s in the past century till 1990. /end/

[Truth Bearer]

Why don't they get it there is no such minority called "macedonian" in Greece..

[Spartan]

[quote=Truth Bearer;28212]Bakoyannis denies existence of Macedonian minority in Greece
Skopje, 27.10.2006 13:58
There is no Macedonian minority in Greece, said Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis in an interview with Macedonian newspaper Dnevnik.

Bakoyannis appears skeptical on eventual shift in Athens' position over the issue, regardless of the fact that a number of relevant European institutions, as well as the Americans, recognize the existence of Macedonian minority.

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

Asked whether there has been any progress in Greek position over the Macedonian minority, in particular now "when Macedonians in Greece became a fact for the Council of Europe, for the European Parliament, for the US Department of State..." Greek foreign minister said "she is very proud with the quality of Greek democracy", adding that Muslims in Western Thrace are the only minority in Greece.

"There is no so-called Macedonian minority. Whenever a political form of the name of the so-quoted or unquoted 'minority' comes up, it always failed to muster nationwide support," Bakoyannis said.

Makfax news agency underscores that over the past few years the Council of Europe, the US Department of State, and the OSCE have called on Greece to respect the rights of Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish minority including the human rights of Roma.

Greece is among a few countries in Europe which have not yet ratified the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities although they had signed it.

minority in Greece
Skopje, 27.10.2006 13:58
There is no Macedonian minority in Greece, said Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis in an interview with Macedonian newspaper Dnevnik.

Bakoyannis appears skeptical on eventual shift in Athens' position over the issue, regardless of the fact that a number of relevant European institutions, as well as the Americans, recognize the existence of Macedonian minority.

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

Macedonian minority in Greece has been subjected to permanent assimilation since 1913, when Greeks, in the course of the then Balkan wars, had conquered almost half of Macedonia's territory upon treaties with Serbia and Bulgaria.

WHAT??
What an idiot! EVERYONE knows there was no such thing until 1946! Before then there were just Bulgarians NOT Macedonians! They cannot provide one single document from that time that supports the existence of a "Macedonian minority"!

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

Macedonian minority and the violence it has been subjected to, was on the agenda of many debates in the League of Nations since the beginning of the past century, as well as in debates in the UN Security Council, the legal successor of the League of Nations, some 10 years after the World War II.

There has NEVER been a single political treaty in existence until 1946 with the name of 'Ethnic Macedonian" on it! So what kind of crap is this?

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

The issue of Macedonian minority in Greece was later hushed up through bilateral public and secret collusions between the Former Yugoslavia and Greece, through silent consent of vast majority of communist leadership in Macedonia in the period of early 70s in the past century till 1990. /end/

Yeah because Tito realized he had made a mistake and his plans were no longer feasable!

I am so sick of this stupidity! What ever happened to common sense and Logic?

[Tsontos]

So what kind of crap is this?

Makfax

[Tsontos]

The various Skopjian news companies love to every-so-often have an article about "Greece denying the Macedonian minority". The fact is Greece's position is clear as day and always has been.

We do not inhibit the Rainbow Party and its 2955 voters' right to call themselves whatever they want, publish whatever they want and do anything any Greek citizen can do. However the fact is that NO historical treaty EVER mentioned a "Macedonian" ethnicity or minority in Greece. It is not a historical minority and wont be recongised as such.