I take note that the International Court of Justice has issued its ruling on a bilateral issue between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹. The ruling does not affect the decision taken by NATO Allies at the Bucharest summit in 2008.  We agreed that an invitation will be extended to the former Yugoslav Republic ...

Tags: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, nato, nato.int

de Nina Gatzoulis La Macédoine est l’une des régions de la Grèce et, à ce titre, elle a toujours fait partie intégrante du monde grec. Issus des Héraclides (eux-mêmes descendants du mythique Héraclès), les Macédoniens d’origine, soit les Grecs macédoniens, arrivèrent dans la région autour de 2000 av. J.-C. Hérodote, père de l’Histoire, décrivit avec soin ...

Tags: Corinthe, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, géographie, Grecs, histoire, macedoine, Nina Gatzoulis, panhellénique, Philippe II, Thessalonique

FYROM’s Unpromising Quest for NATO and EU Membership By Ted Galen Carpenter Senior Fellow Cato Institute Speech to the Hellenic Congress of Quebec Montreal, Canada November 13, 2011             A consistent objective of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) since it achieved independence in the early 1990s has been to gain membership in the two flagship Western institutions, NATO and the ...

Tags: canada, cato institute, eu, eu expansion, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, fyrom, greater macedonia, Greece, macedonia, montreal, nato, skopje, Ted Galen Carpenter

     AMAC PRESS RELEASE 26 July 2011 The FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) lobby in the US been irked by the content of a Bill which was introduced to the U.S House of Representatives by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The  Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012  (H.R. 2583) has proposed a      SEC. 807. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO ...

Tags: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, fyrom, Greece, lobby, skopje

As local politicians in Athens bicker over the placement of a statue of Alexander the Great in front of City Hall on Kotzia Square, and the residents of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s capital Skopje gaze upon their own 24-meter effigy of the Macedonian warrior, the regions of Pella, Imathia and Pieria in ...

Tags: Alexander the Great, balkans, dion, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, olympus, skopje, thessaloniki, Veria

THE LOBOTOMY OF LIBERTY IN FYROM: THE CASE OF DESTRUCTION OF ANTI- GRUEVISTIC A1 TV THROUGH MASS ARREST OF ITS JOURNALISTS   Vasko Gligorijević    Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) demonstrated, encouraged by absence of proper, tough approach from legitimate factors that represent values of European civilization, by far the most extreme form of his crackdown ...

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The "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" takes over from Switzerland as Chair of the Committee of Ministers 11.05.2010   http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/presidences-sessions-cm/presidences/ex_rep_youg_macedoine/default_en.asp The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Council of Europe member states hold the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, the executive body of the Organisation, on a rotating basis in alphabetical order, for a six-month term. The Chairmanship will be transferred ...

Tags: chaimanship, committee of ministers, Council of Europe, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, fyrom

Dear Secretary Clinton,  Subject: April 2010 issue of State magazine  In the April 2010 issue of State magazine, number 454, published by the U.S. Department of State, “Skopje – Ancient Macedonia builds modern democracy,” the author claims that Skopje is the legitimate heir of the ancient Kingdom of Macedonia, a statement that not only has no historical ...

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Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece) The Court authorizes the submission of a Reply by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and a Rejoinder by Greece, and fixes time-limits for the filing of these pleadings THE HAGUE, 16 March 2010. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the ...

Tags: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, fyrom, Greece, Hague, hellenic republic, ICJ, interim accord, international court of justice, UN, United nations

The European Union (EU) has deferred the decision to set a date for accession talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) until 2010. A statement made by EU foreign ministers in Brussels said they would revisit the issue during the Spanish EU presidency, sometime between January 1 until June 30, 2010. This should ...

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