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AMHRC, MHRMI and Vinozhito Condemn the US State Department’s Negation of the Macedonian Minority in Greece
Press Release
April 26, 2013
This week the US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012. In its report on Greece,
under the sub-heading ”National/Racial/ Ethnic Minorities”, the following was stated about the situation and treatment of the Macedonian minority:
“The government did not recognize the existence of a Slavic dialect, called “Macedonian” by its speakers; nevertheless, a small number of its
speakers identified themselves as “Macedonian,” a designation that generated strong opposition from other citizens."
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MHRMI and AMHRC Applaud the Macedonians in Greece and Bulgaria for Demanding Equitable Treatment for the Republic of Macedonia by the European Parliament
Press Release
April 24, 2013
MHRMI and AMHRC applaud our partners in the struggle for Macedonian human rights, Vinozhito and OMO "Ilinden" - PIRIN, for demanding equitable treatment for the Republic of Macedonia by the European Parliament.
According to the letter sent to the European Parliament by Vinozhito and OMO Ilinden PIRIN, "We, as representatives acting on behalf of members of the Macedonian communities, whose very existence is denied and actively negated by the authorities in Greece and Bulgaria, wish to express our deep dissatisfaction with a significant number of the amendments proposed by the Greek and Bulgarian MEPs, in regard to the progress report on the Republic of Macedonia – a country which the EU does not even have the decency to refer to by its official and democratically chosen name."
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MHRMI Meets with Macedonian President Ivanov, Reiterates Demand that Macedonia End Name Negotiations
Press Release
April 21, 2013
MHRMI President Bill Nicholov and MHRMI members Bill Pavlovski, Jovan Drenoski and Chris Balkos (Balkovski) met with President Ivanov,
Macedonian Ambassador to Canada Ljuben Tevdovski and Macedonian Member of Parliament for North America, Pavle Sazdov.
MHRMI called on the Macedonian government to expose Greece's blatant racism and true goals in initiating the nonsensical "name dispute"
- to eradicate the existence of Macedonia and Macedonians.
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ACT NOW: Contact your Member of Congress to Denounce the Name Negotiations!
Press Release
April 17, 2013
The recent proposal by UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, that Macedonia change its name to "Upper Republic of Macedonia" in order to appease Greece and be "considered" for entry into the European Union and NATO highlights the urgent need for this appeal. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, also called on Macedonia to change its name and claimed, "...there is no other alternative, there is no other way forward. And to act sooner is better than later. This is the only way towards progress on your European path."
There is another way forward. Macedonia must stop negotiating its own name and stop begging to get into the European Union and NATO.
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MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Nimetz to Resign Post and to Denounce Name Negotiations
Press Release
April 16, 2013
MHRMI and AMHRC call on the current UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, to publicly come to the same conclusion as his predecessor, resign his post and denounce the nonsensical name negotiations.
Macedonians worldwide are vehemently against the name negotiations and rightly so, as it is common sense to see that there is no "solution" when one country is being asked to change its name to appease another country's racist notion that it has no right to exist.
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MHRMI and AMHRC Congratulate Nova Zora on its Third Anniversary
Press Release
April 10, 2013
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) congratulate Nova Zora, the largest pro-Macedonian newspaper in Aegean Macedonia, on its third anniversary.
Nova Zora is funded by MHRMI and AMHRC, has distributed hundreds of thousands of newspapers throughout Aegean Macedonia, and has been published every month since its inception, despite constant threats and attempts to wipe it out.
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Edmond Temelko re-elected as leader of the Macedonian Alliance
April 6, 2013
The current leader of the Macedonian party, Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (MAEI), Edmond Temelko, received support to lead the party and in the next four years.
On the second party congress which was held today in Tirana under the motto "united and integrated" attended 140 delegates from all parts of Albania, with the greatest presence of those from the areas of Mala Prespa, Gora and Golo Brdo. He was unanimously elected by all present.
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MHRMI and AMHRC Applaud the Mayor of Ovcharani's Demand that Macedonian be an Official Language in Greece
Press Release
April 4, 2013
MHRMI and AMHRC applaud the Mayor of Ovcharani's demand that Macedonian be an official language in Greece, taught at all levels of elementary and secondary school, and that the original Macedonian toponyms be reinstated.
The Mayor of Ovcharani, Pando Anastasiadis (Ashlakov) is also a board member of Vinozhito, which is a partner of MHRMI and AMHRC in the struggle for Macedonian human rights.
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MHRMI and ARCAM Gala Banquet on June 1, 2013 in Toronto
Press Release
April 3, 2013
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Association of Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia (ARCAM) are pleased to announce our Gala Banquet on June 1, 2013. We will be commemorating the 65th anniversary of the plight of the Detsa Begaltsi and the 100th anniversary of the fateful partition of Macedonia.
Show your support by booking your tickets now. Please call 416-850-7125 or email info@mhrmi.org.
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MHRMI and AMHRC Call for the Reinstatement of All Original Macedonian Names in Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo
Press Release
March 19, 2013
Following the Albanian Parliament's long-overdue decision to reinstate the original Macedonian name of the village of Pustec, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) call for the reinstatement of all Macedonian names in the regions of Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo in Albania. The Albanian government had previously renamed Pustec using the Albanian name "Liqenas" in an attempt to suppress the Macedonian identity of the region.
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A Declaration in Protest against the removal of the words: “in view of the non-recognition of the existence of the Pomak and Macedonian minorities,” from the Resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly on the Post monitoring of Bulgaria
February 3, 2013
In the name of the organizations of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, we express our enormous disappointment and shock at the removal of our minority from the final resolution. We are shocked, as the problems facing our minority and its negation in Bulgaria, are registered in numerous acts in the Council of Europe; in the reports of ECRI and by the Commission for Monitoring the Framework Convention, over the course of the last 13 years; in many statements by the Commissioner for Human Rights; and was also the subject of nine court hearings at the ECtHR, in which, dozens of incidents of the negation of the rights of members of the Macedonian minority of Bulgaria were recorded.
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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #12 - December 2012
December 30, 2012
In this edition of the MHR Review:
• Joint Statement by Macedonian Community Organisations to Foreign Minister Carr
• Carr Hears Republic of Macedonia Plea
• Letters:
* To Dr. Kathy Alexander
* From Chris Thomas
* To David Davis
* From Katherine Walsh
* From the Macedonian community of Wollongong
• Macedonian Senior Citizens’ Club of Doncaster Donates to Vinozhito
• Macedonian Support for Australia in the UN
• Condemnation of Racist Slur by EU Ambassador
• Religious Unrest in Macedonia – Tom Vangelovski
• The Rise of “Golden Dawn” in Greece – Pavle Filipov Voskopoulos
• The Troublemaker of the Balkans – George Papadakis
• An Incarcerated Village – Dimitri Jovanov
• The Dark Heritage – Jim Thomev
• A Macedonian Food Festival – Diane Kitanoski
• The Poetry of Radovan Pavlovski – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• An International Conference on the Partition of Macedonia
• Review of Bachev’s Name Issue Book – Dr. Vasko Nastevski
• Images from the MHRMI Human Rights Night
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