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MHRMI Calls on NATO Member-States to Reject Ratification for Macedonia Under Western-Imposed Name of "North Macedonia"
If NATO was truly interested in "promoting democratic values" and "building trust", they would immediately denounce the forced name and identity change on Macedonia and Macedonians. If they were interested in having Macedonia join NATO for some altruistic dream, they would insist that it be under the name Macedonia. They would further attempt to clarify the supposed "benefits" of NATO membership instead of spewing tag lines about claiming to spread democracy.
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Fact Sheet on the Forced Name Change in Macedonia: A Recipe for Cultural Genocide
The name change imposed on Macedonia represents an attempt at cultural genocide in the 21st century and cannot be allowed to stand. This is not a “diplomatic dispute” as the Western press quaintly puts it, but a concerted attempt to erase an old and proud people by denying them their most fundamental human rights of self-determination and self-identification; those which the countries of the EU and NATO which are attempting to impose this agreement on Macedonia would not dream of denying to their own citizens. Democratic and progressive forces throughout the world cannot sit idly by and allow this to happen.
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Macedonians in Albania Condemn Bulgaria's Attempts to Convert Them into "Bulgarians"
We call on the Helsinki Committee in Albania and demand that European representatives denounce the force deracination of the Macedonian national minority in Albania, conducted by Bulgaria with the use of threats and blackmail aimed against the progress of the Albanian state toward Europe.
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Bulgaria's Systematic Persecution of Its Macedonian Minority - Annual Report
11 years since Bulgaria became a member of the European Union, 29 years since it became a democracy, 55 years since the beginning of the policy of denial, assimilation and discrimination of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria...
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ACTION ALERT: Email Canadian MPs and Demand Defence of Macedonia's Name and Identity!
ACTION ALERT: Visit this link (mhrmi.org/act-now) to instantly send an email to Canada's decision makers and DEMAND defence of our Macedonian name and identity. OUR NAME IS MACEDONIA!
ALL MACEDONIANS, regardless of where you live, must ACT NOW.
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Macedonians in Greece Condemn the Prespa Agreement
"We have been fighting for our existence as Macedonians our whole lives, as did all of our ancestors. Nobody has the right to change our name, ethnicity, identity and history at the stroke of a pen", said Father Nikodim Tsarknias, well-known Macedonian human rights activist from Sobotsko, in the Voden region of Aegean Macedonia (annexed by Greece after Macedonia's partition in 1913).
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Macedonian-Canadian Community Denounces Illegally-Imposed Name Change on the Republic of Macedonia
Eradicating the existence of an ethnic group to appease its oppressors and to satisfy Western interventionism will not be tolerated by Macedonians, nor should it be tolerated by anyone claiming to defend human rights. Therefore, the Macedonian-Canadian community...
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MHRMI Informs UN Member-States That Macedonia Did NOT Change Its Name, Calls for Urgent Support to Prevent Western-Imposed Name Change
Despite illegitimate Macedonian “Prime Minister” Zoran Zaev's attempts to deceive the international community into believing that Macedonia has changed its name, since the head of state, President Gjorgi Ivanov, did not sign the illegal, imposed name change for the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia has not changed its name. Article 75 of the Macedonian constitution stipulates that all laws be signed by the President.
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MHRMI Calls on Russia and China to Introduce UN Motion in Support of Macedonia, Pledge to Veto Any Change to Macedonia's Name
Following our meetings with Russian and Chinese officials, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International sent letters to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi calling for both countries, as members of the United Nations Security Council, to: 1. Introduce a motion at the United Nations demanding ...
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Macedonian Business Leaders from Aegean Macedonia Pledge Continued Support of MHRMI's Our Name Is Macedonia Campaign
Two prominent business leaders from Aegean Macedonia, residing in Canada, have pledged their continued support of MHRMI's Our Name Is Macedonia campaign and the fight against any change to Macedonia's name and our Macedonian identity. Bill Argo, owner of the Symposium Cafe restaurant chain, and Mincho Tashev, real estate investor, are both longtime supporters of Macedonian Human Rights Movement International.