Recent days have seen a re-emergence of the issue of a Greek withdrawal from the Interim Accord. In fact, the ‘failure’ of the Karamanlis and Papandreou governments to withdraw from the Interim Accord with FYROM has been called “criminal neglect of national interest”. This view was expressed in November of 2008, seven months after NATO’s ...

Imvros, Turkey 11/2/2010 Desecrated tombs of the cemetery in the capital of Imvros. (Photo by N. Manginas) On October 28, 2010, seventy-eight Christian graves were brutally desecrated in the graveyard of Panagia (Merkez or Imroz), the capital of the island of Imvros (Gokceada), in Turkey. Imvros is home to approximately 200 Greek Orthodox Christians and the birthplace of ...

7 August 2009 10:13 Focus News Agency Sofia. Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet received an official reply to its insistence on FYROM's Foreign Ministry’s urgent intervention in the case with Spaska Mitrova and her release from prison, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dragovest Goranov told FOCUS News Agency. The diplomatic practice says we should wait for a ...