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OSCE Implementation Meeting - Democratic institutions and free elections - Statement made by Mr. Zoran Todorov, member of the Delegation of the Republic of Macedonia - in exercising the right of Reply
Mr. Moderator, Allow me, on behalf of the Delegation of the Republic of Macedonia, to refer to the statements just been made by the distinguished representatives of Greece and Bulgaria. The answer to the question to belong (or not) to a national minority is not a sovereign right of the ...
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OSCE Implementation Meeting - Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Discrimination, National Minorities - United States Delegation Statement
Mr. Moderator, The United States commends the High Commissioner's ongoing work in Central Asia, southeastern Europe and elsewhere focusing on critical minority issues such as education and multi-ethnic policing, and emphasizing integration rather than segregation of persons belonging to minorities.
Bulgaria Deliberately Postponing Registration of Macedonian Party
Source: A1 TV The Bulgarian authorities have violated the deadline during which they should decide on the registration of the OMO Ilinden PIRIN [United Macedonian Organization-Party of Economic Development and Integration of the Population]. Instead of on 20 October, one month after the party of Macedonians submitted the documents required for its registration, the court will reach a verdict on 10 November.
Times Responds to Macedonians' Complaints About "Slav" Reference
How one small adjective spelt trouble abroad Sally Baker Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2270528,00.html LAST week I wrote about the near-impossibility of failing to offend someone, somewhere, in the pages of a daily newspaper. Foreign stories extend the possibilities dramatically.
Eva Bidania (European Free Alliance Youth) Visits the Macedonian Minority in Greece
Macedonian Minority in Greece: FIGHTING AGAINST THE TIDE A report by Eva Bidania "Zdravo!! I have just returned from a visit to the Macedonian minority in Greece. I stayed in a pretty city called Florina/Lerin that is in a province in the north of the Greek state and where the majority of the population is Macedonian.
MHRMI 2006 Annual Report - The Macedonian Minority in Greece
Introduction Greece vigorously denies the existence of any ethnic minorities on its territory and attempts to suppress any voices that advocate human rights. Simply raising the issue of the Macedonian minority in Greece causes Greek citizens and politicians alike to react in outrage. The majority of Greek society supports its government's non-recognition and discrimination of its large Macedonian minority.
Greece: Human rights defenders' harassment in 2005 - The Observatory report
Greek Helsinki Monitor - Press Release Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) welcomes the release of the Annual Report 2005 of the world's most important human rights defenders NGO, the Observatory for the Protections of Human Rights Defenders, which makes references to several cases of harassment of human rights defenders in Greece, reproduces below.
EFA-Rainbow Brings the Slanderers in Front of Justice
EFA-Rainbow - Press Release The European Free Alliance - Rainbow, through 4 members of its Political Secretariat, registered today a complaint against Greek diplomat Georgios Ayfantis and its political supervisors at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, charging them of defamation. Last November, in front of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Legal Affairs & Human Rights Committee), G.
Macedonian Minority Party to go to Court Over Greek Allegations
Florina - Lerin, by Georgios N. Papadakis EFA-Rainbow, the Macedonian minority party in Greece is planning to register a complaint in the Greek courts against a Greek diplomat and his superiors (Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for libel. In a press release issued yesterday, the party states that it can ...
Greek Diplomats and Members of the Greek Parliament Lie to the Council of Europe
Rainbow/Vinozhito - Press Release Florina / Lerin - Surprised and bitterly disappointed, the European Free Alliance-Rainbow recently witnessed -- through the reports of the Greek Helsinki Monitor -- and for yet another time, Greek diplomats and members of the Greek Parliament shamelessly lying in front of an international organization.