Sofia. Bulgaria will support FYROM’s NATO and EU aspirations if the membership requirements and criteria are fulfilled, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said during the question-and-answer session in the parliament, cited by FOCUS News Agency. Yane Yanev (Order, Law and Justice) asked the prime minister about Bulgaria’s support for FYROM’s NATO and EU membership. Borisov highlighted Bulgaria was in favor […]

Towards the resettlement of a Slav-Macedonian minority in Macedonia? by Evangelos Kofos [1] (“To Vima”, June 25 , 2003) Two recent government announcements have unexpectedly raised the matter of the “repatriation” of the Slav-Macedonian exiles from the period 1941–1949.[2] Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Andreas Loverdos and Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Panagiotis Beglitis have both indicated — the former more […]

Athens’ response to UN report GENEVA (ANA-MPA) — Greece’s permanent representative to United Nations on Friday responded in detail to a handful of findings listed in recent report by an independent UN expert on minority issues focusing on the EU and NATO member-state, taking the opportunity to again reiterate Athens’ standing positions. Amb. Frangiskos Verros, speaking before the […]

13-03-2009 17:59:17 Σαφής η απάντηση της Ελλάδας στην έκθεση Μακ Ντούγκαλ Η Αθήνα απάντησε στις αιτιάσεις της Γκεί Μακ Ντούγκαλ πέρνοντας μία καθαρή και σαφή στάση όσον αφορά την περιβόητη έκθεση. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, ο μόνιμος αντιπρόσωπος της Ελλάδος στη Γενεύη σχολιάζοντας την έκθεση της “ανεξάρτητης εμπειρογνώμονος” του ΟΗΕ επί μειονοτικών θεμάτων, Γ. Μακ Ντούγκαλ, υπενθύμισε ότι στη […]

The UN Minorities Rights Report on Greece 2008 has been released. Essentially it is the report of the so-called Independent expert on Minority Issues Gay McDougall (8-16 Sept. 2008) You can read it here from Akritas: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13022753/UN-Minorities-Rights-Report-on-Greece-2008-

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