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Bulgaria welcomes Macedonia – Kosovo border deal

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Bulgaria welcomes Macedonia – Kosovo border deal

Bulgaria says that it supports the steps taken by Kosovo and Macedonia in signing a final agreement between Pristina and Skopje on the two countries’ borders, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said in a statement on October 20 2009.
 
"We appreciate these arrangements as an expression of the policy of good neighbourly relations, following which we have always thought as a key condition for EU and Nato integration of the Western Balkans," the Foreign Ministry said.
 
Bulgaria said that it welcomed the readiness of Kosovo and Macedonia to resolve such issues bilaterally, adding that this would benefit citizens of both countries.
 
In 2008, Bulgaria annoyed Serbia by joining in the recognition of Kosovo of independent, and recognises Macedonia by that name. Skopje and Athens are locked in a dispute about the use of the name Macedonia which, so far, has defied United Nations-brokered attempts to resolve the matter.
 
Sofia may be content with the resolution of the border dispute but, going by local media reports, not everyone in Kosovo and Macedonia is happy.
 
In Kosovo, people in a municipality near the border said that they would protest, alleging that Macedonia had acquired 22ha of private land through the border demarcation.
 
Kosovo daily Zeri quoted "security experts" as saying that the matter was a continuing issue, hinting that Serbian secret services had a hand in stoking up emotions.
 
Kosovo government spokesperson Memli Krasniqi was quoted by Zeri as saying that the land that was there was not lost and people living in the area would have access to their private properties.
 
Across the border, Branko Crvenkovski, leader of Macedonia’s Social Democratic League, said that the government had allowed an exchange of land by which Macedonia had lost.
 
The border deal was not a technical one, but an exchange of territory which, in terms of the constitution, required a referendum and a two-thirds majority vote to approve, Crvenkovski said.
 

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Anonymous PERICLIS GREECE Tue, Nov 17 2009 19:03 CET
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A STILL WAITING SOMEONE FROM FYROMANIA TOO TELL ME WHAT MEANS MACEDONIA??

Anonymous periclis greece Mon, Nov 16 2009 18:39 CET
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i dont believ the tito history is true,butt tell me if you realy now what means macedonia;;;;;you lose energy too make the lies,true and the propagant realy history,i think.you cancel your slavic nasionality,because you now the slavs come on this area a milenium,after alexandros dies.the macedonian speak greece,have greece name this is true,you liket or not,check your name your languits.nothink with macedonian,you dont see;;;;or we must believ the tito history,is so simple,be prout like a slavs,all world is not idiot too believ your propagant.

Anonymous Danielle Sun, Nov 15 2009 23:11 CET
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I could not resist comments made by Periclis greece.Periclis,I strongly believe you dont know your own history,do you?The letter that Miller sent to President Obama was rebuffed by the same scholars who signed it.The claim Miller was making was completly unprofesional and distorted.In 1921 Greek census showed 500.000 registered Macedonians.This census was not even published in Greece.Greece publicly released census information only for Greek teritory before 1913,the actual Greece.All data for the newly occupied teritories, including Aegean Macedonia,was hidden and never released.Greece has refused to do another census since 1921.Why is this Periclis?Let me connect you with the Ancient world.The Hunzas use words like,verne,vadi,turga,gazi,these words are being used today in the Macedonian language.Do you understand these words?Obviously you dont,and non of the Greeks do.I do,they are Macedonian from 2300 years ago.To come to the subject matter,Macedonia has shown that they are willing to co-exist with its neighbours by recognition of Kosovo as a State,their language and their customs.Why is Greece so threatend from Macedonia?Why is Greece hiding the actual make-up of its people?Well, the World is getting there.History stands to correct itself,and that is already in motion.

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Anonymous fake 'S' is David. Fri, Nov 06 2009 03:43 CET

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Anonymous S (The real one:Greek) Thu, Nov 05 2009 23:34 CET

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Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Nov 04 2009 14:10 CET

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Anonymous PERICLIS GREECE Sun, Nov 01 2009 15:09 CET

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Anonymous Cleopatra Fri, Oct 30 2009 17:16 CET
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Sorry, Moderators - will this do instead ?

http://www.dots4strings.com/acatalog/Sheep.html

(Bach's Cantata 208: Sheep May Safely Graze.)

Anonymous Cleopatra Fri, Oct 30 2009 11:59 CET

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Anonymous Ew! it's David Fri, Oct 30 2009 02:50 CET
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Cleopatra is an imperialist Pom.

Bet his English is better than your Greek.. David!!

Had that sex change yet?

Or do you just tuck it between your legs before you sit down (EW!)

Anonymous Cleopatra Wed, Oct 28 2009 22:22 CET
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Periclis - don't you mean ELLHN (ELLEIN) or RWMAIOS (ROMAIOS) ?

Your indifference to both English and Greek spelling does you less than credit.

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 18:34 CET
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28 october 1940 proud too be ELLHNAS

Anonymous vergina Wed, Oct 28 2009 18:09 CET
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the next days or years of this area is the point and not too be a stupit.e.u is the best securety for all balkan and this must be or dream.on greece you have now the papanteou a very harismatic politic and a thing is time too see all proplem of this area.with not the stupit propagant.and too respect, one too other.fyrom is time too see sirius that time.

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 17:34 CET
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cleopatra you speak greec;;[den katalaveno] as you se this is greec

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 17:16 CET
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relax cleopatra.a am not from england too speak perfect.

Anonymous Cleopatra Wed, Oct 28 2009 17:07 CET
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Pericles - I really think you should go to English classes (you would find them very worthwhile generally.)

Meanwhile, assuming that anyone who disgrees with you must be Albanian is a bit simplistic, to put it mildly, if not a bit amusing.

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 16:54 CET
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a am not albania.you are;;;

Anonymous Cleopatra Wed, Oct 28 2009 16:37 CET
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Periclis - are you try to write in Albanian, or what ?

Dhen katalavano

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 15:51 CET
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sumer time a speak youth a lot people from fyrom [vardaska] on xalkidiki, most see we are macedonian,ass papagale is very fanatic and can antersten all this propagand hoo get all this year from politic.a speak youth someone and he tell me, [you live on part hoo gose before macedonia area but you are slavs.so this is a sirious contry;;;so stay with your fantasma with no future,no NATO no E.U for you.we dont want stealers in or family like you.

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 14:30 CET
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slavs is totaly diffrent from macedonian.fyrom or [vardarca]realy name have seem nacionality whith serbian,burgarian,this is true.more of 10 days a aske if fyromanians now watt means macedonia and a still waiting,whatt means thesaloniki [sister from alexanter].you are slavs and you must prout for your history,and stop steal other.

Anonymous Cleopatra Mon, Oct 26 2009 11:10 CET
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Well, Mazestix, you do have quite a good point about the Albanian position on the Macedonian Name Issue. What is the Albanian for "Macedonia" ?

(I know that the Albanian for Albania is "Sqiperia", and I know the Albanian word "grumbullimit", but beyond that my knowledge of the language rather gives out !)

And secondly - as you say - what does the Albanian minority think about the whole "Name" issue, that may not concern them at all ?

Anonymous Mazestix Mon, Oct 26 2009 01:05 CET
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I'm just wondering: Do the Albanias in FYROM (35% something?)accept the fact that they have to follow the slavs into the troubles that the name "Macedonia" creates? Obviously, a part of the region Macedonia is within the borders of FYROM. A larger one within the borders of Greece. By claiming that the citizens of the greek part are a "macedonian minority" and that Alexander the Great was a slavian Macedonian, FYROM can only put itself into deep troubles. Why should the Albanians follow you and not go for a union with mother Albania, or even better ask for a new Kossovo inside FYROM?

Yes I'm Greek and I disagree with the whole policy our nations follow (as well as with the insistance in the name). But as a foreigner I think that your country has quite a lot of problems to solve before it opens the pandora box with the constitution name. It's not a greek phaenomenon the rise of right wing parties. It's European. And your unreasonable demands help them grow stronger in countries like Greece and Albania. Aren't these a lot of problems for an 18-years-old country?

Anonymous Cleopatra Sun, Oct 25 2009 17:50 CET
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Danielle - you're quite right. We should not forget that Karamanlis comes from a Greek power-holding "dynasty" in the Macedonia border region. This means two things:

(a) in general, local dyanasties have strong local family roots in the region (possibly involving property acquired under dubious circumstances) which can override wider national political interests;

(b) specifically, he will be close by reason of family connections to local Greek border interests which have everything to gain by strained Greek/Macedonian relations, and nothing to gain by "detente/glasmost" and closer bileratal relations with the country the other side.

Remember - in Greece (and indeed the Balkans generally) the extended-family comes first and the country second. (I do not exonerate the Macedonians here - they are probably nearly as bad. And certainly the Albanians - with their Kanun of Lek governing every aspect of family relationships - are even worse !)

Anonymous Danielle Sun, Oct 25 2009 17:38 CET
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I wonder,why the greek PM Papandreou has disbanded "Macedonia and Thrace"and will be called as "Northern Greece"Does this means the Greek euphorea has been extinquished?Was this serving Karamanlises political benefit?Is Mr. Papandreou more of a pragmatist.Lets hope,he will do the right thing and recognise the constitutional name of the Republic of Macedonia,and in the meantime the Macedonian minority in Greece.

Anonymous Cleopatra Sun, Oct 25 2009 13:31 CET
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Chris - you are entirely right in what you say.

Vergina - impressed by your intellectual input into this discussion - do you have any more profound thoughts and insights to contribute, preferably in English ?
(French will do if necessary - this site has always offered "habilitation au monde francophone". )

Anonymous Chris Sun, Oct 25 2009 08:10 CET
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Periclis....you admit that the slavs have been in the region of Macedonia since the 6th century?Right? 1400 years and you still believe the slavs have no right to call themselves Macedonians! You go on about Alexander some 2200 years ago. It is the very reason why over 120 countries recognise the Republic of Macedonia under its constitutional name.Your argument is a futile one and you and your country men hostility and racism will be the reason that you will lose this argument.Vergina,thank you for your intelligent input into this discussion...it must have taken you a week to come up with that input.

Anonymous periclis greece Fri, Oct 23 2009 13:18 CET
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hey

Anonymous Shem Fri, Oct 23 2009 12:48 CET
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how?

Anonymous periclis greece Fri, Oct 23 2009 12:46 CET
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good morning from greece

Anonymous Proud Macedonian Fri, Oct 23 2009 05:52 CET

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Anonymous Shem Thu, Oct 22 2009 22:38 CET
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"(I know Greek history books are a bit different, but they will have to come into line with the wider European perspective under new EU legislation under the Lisbon Treaty. This has already happened between Germany and Poland.)"

Next the EU will start burning books.

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 20:00 CET
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agees all the go for sleep.

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 19:26 CET
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YES SIR.history is not a komiks,like popay too change.some thing hapen before,of corce i am prout,like all contrys have own history, and thas it.so lets start too re-write a new greec ass you se, the OLYMBIC GAMES is not greec,the come from moon,the parthenon fix some UFO,the macedonian is greec but the like too dring water from skopia so is skopians,the dimocrachy dont born on greec,but too albania,the buzantioum is not greec empire,is fantastic.Soo cleopatra you think i am in goot way;;;finaly is nice too tak and heer some think difreent.

Anonymous Cleopatra Thu, Oct 22 2009 19:13 CET
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Sorry - the link went wrong. My fault. Here's the full link:

http://www.greece.org/alexandria/alexander/Pages/siwa.html

Anonymous Cleopatra Thu, Oct 22 2009 19:10 CET
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Pericles - this story is not at all my own invention - here is is from an offical Greek government website (http://www.Greece.org):

http://www.Greece.org):

I'm not sure that the Greek government would necessarily agree that this means that Iraquis are Americans, but I am sure they would thank you for the originality of your analysis.

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 18:57 CET
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dear cleopatra if the past from egypt,that means is half egypyian;;he past all asia,afganistan,that means for you is from avganistan olso;;the USA today fithnig in IRAK that means the iraki people is american;

Anonymous Cleopatra Thu, Oct 22 2009 18:57 CET
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Pericles Greece - "Revisionism" is an international movement in the study of history throughout the world that has gained momentum from new forensic and carbon-dating techniques, also newly-discovered archaeology, and new research scholarship, and even Greece cannot stop it.

So Greece will have to re-write its school history books in the same way as all other European countries very soon. (I know Greek history books are a bit different, but they will have to come into line with the wider European perspective under new EU legislation under the Lisbon Treaty. This has already happened between Germany and Poland.)

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 18:40 CET
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200 classical scholars from aarount the world sent a letter to the president of USA barack obama on junne 22hd 2009 an updade with 332 signatures was send 2 on novender 4 2004two days after the re-election of president george w bush his administation unilat erraly reagnized the repuplic macedonia, this action not only adrogated geografhiand historic fact,but it also has uhleashed a dangerous epidemic of historical revisinism of which the most obvious sympton is the misappropriation by the government in skopie of the famous of macedonians,alexander the great.We believe that this sillinese has gone too far,and that the USA has no business in supporting the subversion of history.

Anonymous Cleopatra Thu, Oct 22 2009 18:25 CET
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Pericles - Alexander himself claimed in BC333, in Egypt at the Sacred Temple of Siwah, to be half-descended from the Egyptian God Ammun (or Amon), who impregnated his mother Olympias in the form of a snake. (Rather like the same legend of Lida and the swan in Cyprus.)

Which means, in short, that Alexander was half Egyptian God and half Greek. No mention of Macedonia at all.......

Anonymous Proud Macedonian Thu, Oct 22 2009 18:05 CET
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You Greeks should look to your own heritage and be proud and stop trying to steal the Macedonian one . Afterall what's in a name but respect and pride, what you Greeks lack in.

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 17:56 CET
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they are a people slavic in a land tha was near macedonia,using pearsonal name that are slavic and speaking a bulgaria dialect.the people now exclusivery claiming the macedonia name,history.begin in 1944 with the communist tito speaking a passage to the greec aegean for the slavic people.alexander was basically agreec and in no case a forefather of todays slavic macedonian,the director of reiss-engelelhorm museum,alfred wieczorek told the german press agency DPA.slavs begam from asia the 6th century amillennium after alexander diet.so STOP lies and STOP propagand.

Anonymous Pausanias Thu, Oct 22 2009 17:17 CET
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Vergina - if you look at your Roman Empire history, Macedonia is two (Upper and Lower), and is part of Thrace and not part of Greece.
Things change over time....the era of the Hellenic Empire is long gone (not least because the Romans destroyed it !)

Anonymous Spela Thu, Oct 22 2009 17:14 CET
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Peggy is quite right - there are more important things at stake on this issue than age-old recitals of ancient Balkan history !

And only in the Balkans could an international dispute arise over 22 hectares of private land !)

Anonymous VERGINA Thu, Oct 22 2009 16:57 CET
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macedonia is one, and is ELLHNIKH.

Anonymous periclis greece Thu, Oct 22 2009 16:37 CET
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i am not fanatic just i dont like too still my history.so if you think the some thing hapend youth kosovo, and bulgaria enjoyt.the bulgaria he never recoghise langoits or nacionaliti macedonian just a name.a still wating someone from fyrom or vardaska too tell me watt meens macedonia if now;;;;;

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Anonymous Proud Macedonian Thu, Oct 22 2009 04:27 CET
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Yes you misinformed fanatical greeks, read the article title and weep. Bulgaria welcomes Macedonia- Kosovo border deal!

Anonymous Peggy Wed, Oct 21 2009 22:42 CET
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Are you guys dicussing the topic at hand or giving each other a history lesson?
Who cares about history at this point?
Read the article and comment on that. It would be much more interesting and a history lesson belongs on another forum.

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thanks

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Anonymous Mike Tue, Oct 20 2009 17:34 CET
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Nothing else but another mistake by Macedonia. Defining borders with a breakaway province that is still in dispute, how incredibly low. Wait until the Albanians take part of Macedonia or perhaps Bulgaria. That picture doesn't look so warm and cosy does it! This is the problem with the Balkans... no integrity and no respect. But I can see why the three regions pat each other's back's, being at the bottom of the barrel is lonely.

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thanks bulgaria .

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