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ECRI Meeting with Macedonian Organizations in Bulgaria
On May 7, 2003, in Sofia, Bulgaria, activists of the Macedonian organizations in the Pirin part of Macedonia had a meeting with the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) [www.coe.int/ecri]. ECRI is an independent human rights monitoring mechanism, which was established by the first "Summit of Heads of State and Government of the member States of the Council of Europe" (October 1993).
Racist Australian Minister in Slur Probe for Referring to Macedonians as "Skopians"
By Richard Baker www.theage.com.au John Pandazopoulos, the minister assisting Premier Steve Bracks in his multicultural affairs portfolio, is being investigated by the Equal Opportunity Commission over comments he made on SBS radio last year. Mr Bracks yesterday confirmed the investigation at a Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearing at State Parliament.
Open Letter to the Greek Prime Minister Regarding Greece's Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians
Open Letter To the Right Honourable Konstantinos Simitis Prime Minister of Greece From: Dr. Georgios Nakratzas Physician and Writer Holland Dear Sir, Two years ago I visited Turkey as a member of an international delegation, in support of Turkish writers suffering persecution. During the course of this visit I made ...
Rainbow/Vinozhito Press Release Regarding Greece's Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians
Rainbow/Vinozhito Press Release ...but all that Ulysses desires is to see the smoke rising from his own chimneys once more before he dies (Odyssey, i, 57f.) After more than fifty years the Macedonian freedom fighters, soldiers of the Democratic Army and thousands of refugee children, victims of the civil war, are still trapped in forced exile from their homes.
Amnesty Criticizes EU Double Standards on Human Rights
News Release courtesy of the Greek Helsinki Monitor www.greekhelsinki.gr Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) publicly regrets that, once more in this release, Amnesty International (AI) mentions the joint report of AI with the International Helsinki Federation (IHF) on Greece as only an AI report. Given that this unethical reference ...
Macedonian Organizations in Bulgaria Hold United Commemoration in Honour of Jane Sandanski Without Police Interference
For the first time all Macedonian organizations in Bulgaria yesterday mutually commemorated the anniversary of the murder of Macedonian revolutionary Jane Sandanski. They also announced the unification of their organizations. As Macedonian radio reports, at the Rozhen monastery in Bulgaria, all organizations of the Macedonians in Bulgaria mutually gathered in order to pay respect at the grave of Sandanski.
"Macedonia and Bulgaria Have Different Pasts, But They Have the Same Views for the Future"
"Relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia can be an example for other countries in the process of Euro-integration", stated Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski yesterday at the end of the three-day visit of Bulgarian Prime Minister, Simeon Saksoburgotski to Macedonia. The Bulgarian Prime Minister, for his part, evaluated the visit to Macedonia ...
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Info Zora - The Rainbow/Vinozhito Newsletter - December 2002/January 2003 - No.9
RAINBOW (VINOZHITO), European Movement Member of the European Free Alliance (EFA) STEFANOU DRAGOUMI 11, P.O. Box 51, 53100 FLORINA, LERIN GREECE TEL, FAX: +302385, 46548 URL: http://www.florina.org/ It is our opinion that the issue of immigration will dominate the political stage over the next years, if it does not already, in both Greece as well as the entire European Union.
EU Accession Exposes Double Standards on Minority Rights
Minority Rights Group International www.minorityrights.org The European Union's role in promoting ratification of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM)1 among European Union (EU) accession States2 reveals double standards since some existing EU countries have themselves failed to ratify and implement the Convention.
Observations on the Parliamentary Question by the New Democracy M.E.P. Mr. Stavros Xarhakos to the European Commission
Dr. Georgios Nakratzas, Physician - Writer g.nakratzas@wxs.nl On 19 March 2003 the M.E.P. Mr.