Greeks Protest Over Neighbor’s Use of the Name Macedonia
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Greeks Protest Over Neighbor’s Use of the Name Macedonia
Last week Ieronymos II, the archbishop of Athens and All Greece, told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
that "what is needed now is not protests and cries, but national unity." Mr. Tsipras, who is expected to meet with his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, on the sidelines of a summit meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland, said in an interview with the center-left Greek newspaper Ethnos published on Sunday that he understood Greeks’ sensitivities over the name talks.
21, 2018
ATHENS — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest the inclusion of the word "Macedonia"
in the name of the neighboring former Yugoslav republic amid talks by the two nations to resolve the longstanding dispute.
Drawing what the police estimated at 90,000 people, the rally was the first major protest since Greece
and the Republic of Macedonia agreed to join United Nations-mediated talks this month to settle the 25-year disagreement.
NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told officials last week in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia’s capital,
that the name dispute with Greece must be resolved before the Balkan country can join the alliance.
" he said, "to make absolutely clear that nobody is claiming other people’s land or history." His junior coalition partner, Panos Kammenos, has a different view.
that But it is not unreasonable to have the term Macedonia included in a compound name, with either a geographical or a chronological qualifier, for all uses,
Last week Ieronymos II, the archbishop of Athens and All Greece, told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
that "what is needed now is not protests and cries, but national unity." Mr. Tsipras, who is expected to meet with his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, on the sidelines of a summit meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland, said in an interview with the center-left Greek newspaper Ethnos published on Sunday that he understood Greeks’ sensitivities over the name talks.
21, 2018
ATHENS — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest the inclusion of the word "Macedonia"
in the name of the neighboring former Yugoslav republic amid talks by the two nations to resolve the longstanding dispute.
Drawing what the police estimated at 90,000 people, the rally was the first major protest since Greece
and the Republic of Macedonia agreed to join United Nations-mediated talks this month to settle the 25-year disagreement.
NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told officials last week in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia’s capital,
that the name dispute with Greece must be resolved before the Balkan country can join the alliance.
" he said, "to make absolutely clear that nobody is claiming other people’s land or history." His junior coalition partner, Panos Kammenos, has a different view.
that But it is not unreasonable to have the term Macedonia included in a compound name, with either a geographical or a chronological qualifier, for all uses,