ΣΥΝΕΧΙΖΕΙ Ο ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗ ΜΑΧΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ ΜΑΣ....ΣΤΙΣ Η.Π.Α.!

Έχει γραφτεί αρκετές φορές στο διαδίκτυο για τη δράση του Ελληνοκύπριου Νίκου Τανέρη στη Νέα Υόρκη υπέρ των εθνικών μας θεμάτων. Μια πρόσφατη ενέργεια του Νίκου, ήταν το γράμμα που έστειλε ως απάντηση στο σάιτ των Washington Times, στο ποστ με τον τίτλο
("No names, please," Embassy Row, World, June 12) -το οποίος γράφτηκε ως ανατπόκριση για την επίσκεψη του αναπληρωτή πρωθυπουργού των Σκοπίων Ivica Bocevski στις ΗΠΑ- και αφορούσε την υπεράσπιση των ελληνικών θέσεων στο θέμα του σφετερισμού του ονόματος της ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ απο τους μεταλλαγμένους Βούλγαρους νεοκομμουνιστές των Σκοπίων. Το ποστ της ιστοσελίδας ήταν το...

The Washington Times
Report published on Friday June 12, 2009
EMBASSY ROW by James Morrison
NO NAMES, PLEASE

The new deputy prime minister of Macedonia declined repeatedly Thursday to discuss the one issue that is keeping his country out of NATO and the European Union.

Ivica Bocevski told reporters at the National Press Club that the dispute with Greece over the formal name of his nation is the responsibility of other Macedonian officials, who are negotiating with their Greek counterparts.

Greece objects to the use of the name, Macedonia, because it is a region in modern Greece and historically associated with Alexander the Great. Although Alexander was born in the capital of ancient Macedonia, his birthplace has long been part of modern Greece.

Greeks say Macedonia hijacked the name to establish a stronger claim to Alexander, even naming the national airport after the Greek conqueror and planning an eight-story-high statue of Alexander in the Macedonian capital, Skopje.

Greece continues to object to Macedonia's membership in NATO and the European Union until the name dispute is settled. The country was admitted to the United Nations under the provisional name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The United States and more than 120 other nations recognize the country as Macedonia.

Mr. Bocevski, on his first visit to Washington as deputy prime minister, talked around the name dispute, as he complained of problems from Macedonia's isolation from European institutions.

He noted that his mother traveled throughout Europe on a Yugoslav passport when Macedonia was a province in the former communist nation. But since independence in 1991, Macedonians have been required to get visas to visit other European countries because the nation is not part of the European Union.

Mr. Bocevski, who will turn 32 next week, said most of his generation of Macedonians have never traveled outside their small Balkan nation.

"Closing the borders has also closed the minds of a generation of Macedonia," he said, adding that the isolation can cause a political backlash against Europe.

"Macedonians could fall prey to xenophobes and populists in the region," Mr. Bocevski said. "Closing the region has only made the situation worse."

He is meeting with State Department officials and members of Congress and speaking at a conference on Macedonia.

και η απάντηση του Νίκου
June 26, 2009

Letters to the Editor
The Washington Times
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Washington, DC 20002

To the Editor:

Ivica Bocevski neglected to clarify the legacy of the so-called name dispute, as reported in The Washington Times recently ("No names, please," Embassy Row, World, June 12). The country Mr. Bocevski hails from is a state that was part of the former Yugoslavia, an artificial political construct that waged war on Greece during the immediate aftermath of World War II.

The name "Macedonia" was originally bestowed on the region buttressing Greece by the dictator Josip Broz Tito, who funded and armed a military campaign fighting for partition of our land and people. It was concocted primarily by the Comintern and carried out with the most callous disregard for the basic human and linguistic rights recognized in modern Europe. It remains one of the gravest political crimes of all time and continues to stain the history of Europe and the United States. Imagine cutting a living human being limb from limb. This is the legacy of the Greek Civil War, a war fueled by communist forces seeping in from the porous borders of northern Greece and Macedonia.

The Macedonia of Alexander the Great was, and forever will be, Hellenic -- not Yugoslavian. It is time that Mr. Bocevski end his country's isolation by embracing the Hellenic origin of Alexander, one of Europe's greatest sons. Stop denying the past and dispense with false historical revisionism. It smacks of genocidal ideologies of a discredited era.

NIKOLAOS TANERIS

Press officer

Hellenic League of America

New York City

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/26/the-game-of-the-name/

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