Blagoevgrad/Gorna Dzumaja, Melbourne and Toronto - A statement denying the existence of minorities in Bulgaria was made last week to the Macedonian media by an MP of the European Parliament, Andrej Kovachev - a member of the ruling party in Bulgaria (GERB). Similar views have also been recently expressed by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister, Mladenov.
The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC), Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the European Free Alliance - Rainbow/Vinozhito, a political party of the Macedonian minority of Greece, questions the wisdom of a Special Representative for Human Rights to focus on non-EU states and is deeply concerned about the appointment of Stavros Lambrinidis to this post.
Would the United States ever entertain the idea of changing its name? Why then, is it asking Macedonia to do so? Apparently, for the "privilege" of joining NATO. Of course, at the NATO summit in May, Macedonia wasn't even on the agenda. It should have been painfully obvious that Macedonia wouldn't be invited to join NATO until it solves the so-called "name dispute" with Greece.
Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #11 - June 2012 March 31, 2012 Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #10 - March 2012 February 15, 2012 UN Expert Recommends Bulgaria Recognise Its Macedonian Minority Експерт на ООН и' препорачува на Бугарија да го признае своето македонско малцинство January 17, 2012 MHRMI Response to National Post Letter "Canadian Greeks: Don't rewrite Balkan history" January 16, 2012 Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #9 - January 2012
Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #10 - March 2012 February 15, 2012 UN Expert Recommends Bulgaria Recognise Its Macedonian Minority Експерт на ООН и' препорачува на Бугарија да го признае своето македонско малцинство January 17, 2012 MHRMI Response to National Post Letter "Canadian Greeks: Don't rewrite Balkan history" January 16, 2012 Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #9 - January 2012
OMO "Ilinden" - PIRIN, AMHRC, and MHRMI - Press Release Blagoevgrad/Gorna Dzumaja (Bulgaria), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada) OMO "Ilinden" - PIRIN, the political party of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, together with the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) welcome the ...
Why the National Post chose to be "objective" and let the Greek community have equal time in responding to the recent op-ed about Macedonia is beyond me. One should not give the oppressor the opportunity to justify its brutal actions against the oppressed. The vast majority of readers, understandably, have no interest in hearing the long, drawn out version of Greece's romanticized history.
Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada) and Skopje (Macedonia) Not that any more incentive should be needed to stop negotiating your own name, but in a 15-1 vote, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled today that Greece violated the United Nations' sponsored Interim Accord (a 1995 "agreement" ...
MHRMI and AMHRC call on Macedonians throughout the world to show their support for human rights for Macedonians throughout the Balkans. MHRMI and AMHRC finance and organize all Macedonian human rights activities and work directly with every Macedonian human rights organization including Vinozhito, OMO Ilinden PIRIN, MAEI, Nova Zora, Narodna Volja, Ilinden Tirana, the Home of Macedonian Culture, and all others.