HMG WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH ATHENS AND SKOPJE ON "MACEDONIA" NAME/NATO ACCESSION ISSUE Passed to the Telegraph by WikiLeaks 9:06PM GMT 04 Feb 2011 Ref ID: 08LONDON1112 Date: 4/18/2008 14:00 Origin: Embassy London Classification: CONFIDENTIAL Destination: 08STATE40462 Header: VZCZCXYZ0000OO RUEHWEBDE RUEHLO #1112 1091400ZNY CCCCC ZZHO 181400Z APR 08FM AMEMBASSY LONDONTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8305INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHSQ/AMEMBASSY SKOPJE PRIORITY ...

Tags: ACCESSION ISSUE, athens, name, nato, skopje, Wikileaks Cables

Με μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον διαβάσαμε το κείμενο του κ. Ηρακλείδη στο ιστολόγιο "Foreign Press". Για το ζήτημα των Σκοπίων, ο κ. Ηρακλείδης γράφει: "Η προφανής μέση λύση ... είναι «Βόρεια Μακεδονία», «Νέα Μακεδονία» ή «Μακεδονία» στα σλαβομακεδονικά, δηλαδή Μakedonija. Η τελευταία είναι, νομίζω, η καταλληλότερη..." Αν δεν μας απατά η μνήμη μας, το συνταγματικό όνομα της γειτονικής ...

Tags: ethnicity, Heraclides, Heraclidis, Heraklides, Heraklidis, Iraclides, Iraclidis, Iraklides, Iraklidis, Issue, έθνος, γλώσσα, μακεδονία, μακεδονικό, ονομασία, όνομα, σκόπια, εθνικότητα, εθνότητα, ελλάδα, Ηρακλείδης, macedonia, makedonija, makedonski, name, naming, nationality, skopje

Παρασκευή, 08.05.09 Ο γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, Γιαπ ντε Χούπ Σέφερ, μετά τις συναντήσεις που είχε το απόγευμα της Παρασκευής στα Σκόπια με τον απερχόμενο πρόεδρο της ΠΓΔΜ, Μπράνκο Τσερβένκοφσκι και τον πρωθυπουργό, Νίκολα Γκρούεφσκι, ανέφερε ότι η εκκρεμότητα της ονομασίας παραμένει εμπόδιο για την ένταξη της ΠΓΔΜ στο ΝΑΤΟ και ότι η Συμμαχία δεν εμπλέκεται ...

Tags: fyrom, Greece, name, nato

NATO's General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in a meeting with Branko Crvenkovski, warns about the possibility of a failure of referendum about country's name, predicting a possibility of a security crisis.

Tags: athens, balkans, Crisis, culture, dispute, europe, Fascism, fascist, fyrom, government, Greece, greek, greeks, identity, Issue, macedonia, macedonian, macedonians, makedonija, name, nationalism, Nationalistic, News, political, politics, propaganda, Referendum, SDSM, skopje, skoplje, Slav, slavic, slavs, Totalitarian, vmro, vmro-dpmne

FYROM's Kanal5 investigates the latest proposals and views on the name dispute by Evangelos Kofos, an eminent Greek academic and scholar of Macedonian studies.

Tags: Analysis, athens, culture, Diplomacy, dispute, Evangelos, fyrom, greek, hellenic, hellenism, history, identity, Issue, Kofos, macedonian, macedonians, name, News, politics, Povardarje, question, skoplje, Slav, slavic, slavs

By Sinisa-Jakov Marusic 20 January 2009 FYROM looks to the inauguration of Barack Obama with some trepidation about a possible shift in the United States' position on the name dispute with Greece, while Athens appears quietly confident that the new US president will be more sympathetic to its stance. Athens and Skopje have been locked in a diplomatic ...

Tags: dispute, fyrom, Greece, name, obama

By Markos Karavias and Antonios Tzanakopoulos December 29, 2008 Volume 12, Issue 26 Introduction On November 17, 2008, the ‘former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’ (FYR Macedonia) instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging that Greece’s objection to its application to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) breaches the 1995 Interim Accord between these two States.[1] ...

Tags: dispute, fyrom, Greece, karamanlis, karavias, legality, name, tzanakopoulos, veto

TIRANA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev on Monday urged FYROM to make a compromise to settle a long-running name dispute with Greece.     "It is necessary to reach a compromise on the name issue, especially when Greece is already a member of the EU and NATO,"  Stanishev said in his meeting with Macedonian President ...

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For the 3d time in history, Henry Kissinger makes it clear how he feels about Macedonia:   'Greece has historical rights to the name 'Macedonia' ' was his answer to Skopje's Parliamentary President of Foreign Affairs and Defense during a meeting on September 4, 2008. Can we say that the current Greek Foreign Ministry feels the same? From ...

Tags: 1992, 1999, 2008, cnbc, fyrom, greeks, hardball, henry, kissinger, macedonia, name, northern, skopjans, vima, yugoslavia

For those who still have doubts over what is behind  the name "Macedonia", the following images, taken from the, FYROM's Australian diaspora, so-called 'protest' in Melbourne, of 24th May 2008, are undeniable fact of their true aspirations behind the name issue. Once again Depictions of the Greek flag with a swastika, Irredentist Maps of 'United Macedonia', Racist Slogans, Hate-Speech were visible before, during, ...

Tags: australia, fyrom, Greece, greek, hate-speech, irredentism, macedonia, melbourne, name, racism, swastika