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- Subject: M.I.L.S. - NEWS 18/11/92
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- MILS - NEWS November 18, 1992
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- ALBANIAN PARTIES SUPPORT GREECE AGAINST MACEDONIA
- Skopje. The leader of the ethnic Albanian party (NDP) in
- Macedonia, Ilijaz Halimi, has sent a letter to Greek Prime
- Minister, Constantine Mitsotakis, urging Athens not to recognise
- Macedonia.
- Halimi wrote: "the government of this former Yugoslav republic
- (euphemism for Macedonia) has gone to a lot of trouble to get
- international recognition as a nation-state for only Macedonian-
- Slavs (Greek euphemism for Macedonians). We totally support your
- (Greece's) opposition to such a state getting recognition because
- it could threaten the very existence of Greece and other Balkan
- countries, and peace in the region."
- Halimi's letter received widespread coverage in the Greek media,
- as did a declaration from Nevzat Halili, leader of the other
- ethnic Albanian party, PDP.
- Halili told Greek television "that it's time the international
- community understood the Albanian situation in Macedonia." He
- claimed "we have always been massacred and mistreated like black
- Africans."
- However, Balkan historians have discounted Halili's claims by
- pointing out that during World War II, Albanian nationalists,
- known as the Balisti, collaborated with the Italians and Germans
- and massacred thousands of Macedonian and Albanian Partizans and
- civilians.
- Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia, according to political
- commentators, have had a better standard of living than their
- compatriots in Kosovo and Albania.
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- ALBANIANS TO DIVIDE MACEDONIA
- Skopje. The Vice President of the ethnic Albanian party (PDP),
- Sami Ibraimi, recently told English newspaper, The Guardian, that
- the Albanian minority would divide up Macedonia, unless Albanians
- were granted the same national rights as the Macedonians. He said
- his people would urge European countries not to recognise
- Macedonia until Albanians got what they wanted.
- The Undersecretary of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry, Risto
- Nikovski, said the Albanian parties were using fear tactics to
- squeeze out as many concessions as possible from Macedonia before
- it received recognition.
-
- US CONGRESSMEN URGE RECOGNITION FOR MACEDONIA
- Skopje. Two American Congressmen, who were recently in Macedonia
- as observers for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
- Europe (CSCE) organisation, yesterday in Zagreb urged the
- international community give unconditional recognition to
- Macedonia.
- Senator Dennis DeConcini and Representative Frank McCloskey said
- that the US should work for Macedonia's acceptance into the CSCE,
- the UN and other international organisations. The two US
- politicians will make an appeal to their country's State
- Department, as soon as they return to Washington DC.
-
- MACEDONIAN CONSTITUTION ONE YEAR OLD
- Skopje. Last night, the Macedonian Parliament commemorated the
- first anniversary of the introduction of the republic's
- constitution and the setting up of a multi-party democratic
- political system.
- The Speaker of the Parliament, Stojan Andov, said "the
- constitution had established the base for a democratic state."
-
- SECRET MEETING IN GENEVA
- Skopje. The Greek ambassador to Serbo-Yugoslavia, Elefterios
- Karayiannis, and United Nations peace negotiator for the former
- Yugoslavia, Cyrus Vance, recently held a secret meeting in Geneva
- to resolve the dispute over Macedonia's name, according to
- reports in the Athenian newspaper, "Elefterotipia."
-
- CSCE OBSERVER SAYS BULGARIAN BORDER IS SAFE
- Skopje. The border between Macedonia and Bulgaria is secure,
- according to a statement issued by a CSCE observer in the
- republic.
- The observer visited a number of places near the Macedonian-
- Bulgarian border and said it was secure in contrast to
- Macedonians border with Albania and Serbo-Yugoslavia.
- Macedonia had quickly set up a road along the border-check point
- at the town of Berovo, according to the observer, whilst Bulgaria
- had taken its time in doing the same.
-
- GREEK CLAIMS OF DRUG TRADE IN MACEDONIA: ABSURD
- Skopje. The Macedonian Minister for Defence, Vlado Popovski, has
- slammed Greece for making absurd allegations that his country was
- involved in the drug trade with the Italian mafia.
- The Greek media had recently launched a campaign against
- Macedonia by claiming the republic had set up a factory in an
- army barracks in Skopje for manufacturing heroin.
- Popovski jokingly said: "we're in fact producing intercontinental
- nuclear missiles which are aimed at Greece and the whole free
- world!" He added, "even though I'm just joking, poking fun,
- Greece will, no doubt, take this seriously."
- Popovski said that such outrageous lies made by Greece could
- affect the peace and stability in the Balkan region.
-
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