Conclusions of the Greek public hearings at the International Court of Justice

FYROM’s claim is beyond the Court’s jurisdiction as established by Article 21, paragraph 2, of the Interim Accord, whether it is interpreted, as the FYROM  originally proposed, as precluding any case which concerns - “directly or indirectly” the name issue, or whether, as the FYROM alternatively proposes, it is read as precluding any case which would resolve the difference over the name. Greece has demonstrated that the FYROM’s claim, in requiring judgment of the lawfulness of actions by NATO and by its individual members collectively, is inadmissible. Greece has also demonstrated that the FYROM’s claim, in seeking a remedy which a judgment cannot provide, is beyond the inherent competence of the Court.

Greece has demonstrated that, properly read, the actions attributed to Greece by the FYROM did not constitute an objection. This is not because Greece was supposed to support the FYROM’s membership in NATO in 2008; for reasons stated at the time and in applying the well known NATO criteria and requirements for membership it was not. It is also because the admission process to NATO is a consensus one based on consultation, with neither vote nor veto. Greece notes....

Slavmacedonian people: is a “ethnic category” ?

An interesting comment took place from Pr. Loring Danforth regarding the ethnicity of the Slavmacedonians at the history-of-macedonia.com
Here is the abstract:

“I have always stated, and I repeat here, that modern Macedonians[1] (people who have a Macedonian and not a Greek national identity) are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians; they are Slavs.[….] In my opinion, Macedonian nationalists who deny they are Slavs and claim they are direct descendants of Alexander the Great and the ancient Macedonians are extremists. They are making inaccurate statements that are bad scholarship and bad politics. Building a statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje and naming the Skopje airport after Alexander the Great are in my opinion irresponsible acts that are not in the best interests of the Republic of Macedonia.”

Also Pr. Danforth in his controversial book [4] claims that:

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(FYROM)’S VIOLATIONS OF THE INTERIM ACCORD

The summary that follows focuses on the FYROM’s actual violations; an analysis of those legal obligations and the significance of the FYROM’s violations of them, as presented at 9 January 2010, in Greek Counter-Memorial Volumes, at International Court of Justice.

The parts of this summary are:

I. RECENT EXAMPLES OF THE FYROM’S FAILURE TO CONDUCT GOOD FAITH NEGOTIATIONS
II. THE FYROM’S INTERVENTION IN GREECE’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS
III. THE FYROM’S HOSTILE ACTIVITIES AND PROPAGANDA AGAINST GREECE
IV. THE FYROM’S CONTINUED USE OF THE SUN OF VERGINA
A. Hostile Propaganda against Greece by Public Authorities and State-controlled Agencies of the FYROM
B. Activities by Private Entities and Persons Inciting Hostility against Greece Financed and/or Supported by the FYROM
C. Persistent Harassment against the Premises of the Greek Liaison Office and its Personnel in Skopje
V. THE FYROM’S APPROPRIATION OF OTHER GREEK HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS
VI. THE FYROM’S BEHAVIOUR BEFORE INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
VII. GREECE’S REACTIONS TO THE FYROM’S BEHAVIOUR PRIOR TO THE BUCHAREST SUMMIT
VIII. CONCLUSION

Smelling bankruptcy in Greece.

In March 24-25 summit, Eurozone will be finish

Since the well-known Monetary Liberal policy shock therapy from IMF/EU, failed,
Germany is negative to the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility,
as also is negative to improve the terms( cutting rates on bailout loans) of the rescue loans that have been provided not only to Greece but also and in Ireland,
it seems that Greek goverment is nearly to declare bankruptcy,
as the deadlock becomes more visible, society will awaken from the shock and tension will grow. Let’s hope that when the time comes, the government will keep away from anti-democratic practices. In fact, the memorandum appears to be the safest way to bankruptcy is FINISHED.
Thomas Friedman in 1996 commented that:  there are two superpowers in the world today in my  opinion. There's the United States and there's Moody's Bond Rating Service. The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs, and Moody's can destroy you by downgrading your bonds. And believe me, it's not clear sometimes who's more powerful.
After Greece, the Ireland, Portugal and Spain wiil be the next victims of the new World Leaders that call Standard & Poors, Moody's and Fitch Ratings.
These are my feellings.

Letter to US Vice President & Secretary of State by Pan-Macedonian Association USA.

February 14, 2011

To: Vice-President Joe Biden

The White House & Secretary of State Hillary Clinton State Department of USA

Dear Mr. Vice-President,

Dear Madam Secretary of State,

We are writing to you on behalf of all members of the Pan-Macedonian  Association USA, one of the largest Greek-American associations in the  United States in anticipation to the Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav  Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Mr. Gruevski's visit to the United States. We  have also read the letter of the nineteen Representatives urging President  Obama to encourage our allies to offer the FYROM a formal invitation to  become a member of the NATO alliance at the November 2010 NATO Summit in  Lisbon. This letter, dated October 1, 2010 stressed that "Macedonia has met  all the criteria for membership in NATO." and "Although Macedonia is not a  member of NATO, its contributions to peace, democracy, stability and  security in Southeast Europe and elsewhere make it clear that Macedonia is a  close US ally and has been acting as a de facto NATO member for some time."  [1]

The attempt to encourage the President was not successful, but keeping this  attempt in mind and in advance of Nikola Gruevski's visit to Washington  D.C. , we would like to highlight why Skopje is not ready to be a serious  NATO member yet. The FYROM has not been capable to...

Murdered Sephardic Jewish Community Remains Without a Voice

by Shelomo Alfassa
thecuttingedgenews.com

Annually, it is repeated in the contemporary media how ‘Bulgaria became the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population’ or that ‘Bulgaria saved all of its Jews from the death camps.’ While ultimately, members of the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian public, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, did in fact take laudable actions which halted the deportation of 50,000 Jews from ‘Old’ Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland, there is no reason why the Bulgarian government should not discuss the 13,000 Jews they dispossessed, imprisoned, and deported from their own land of ‘United’ or ‘New’ Bulgaria.

Here are the facts. On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria...