Congressional resolution referring to FYROM as 'Macedonia' withdrawn
WASHINGTON, 08/04/2006 (ANA-MPA / T. Ellis)
A resolution initially tabled with the US Congress' International
Relations Committee welcoming four foreign parliamentary delegations here,
including one from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), was
withdrawn after opposition by near two dozen committee members to use of
the name "Macedonia".
The development comes after an intervention by three high-ranking members
of the so-called "Hellenic caucus" in Congress -- Michael
Bilirakis (R-FL), Caroline Maloney (D-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
Twenty-two out of
49 members of the committee expressed their opposition to the name
"Macedonia" in the resolution.
On a state legislature level, a resolution tabled in Illinois' general
assembly in support of the rights (religious, linguistic and
self-determination) of "Macedonians" living in the Balkans was
also thrown out following concerted efforts by ethnic Greek groups in the
United States.
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The Pan-Macedonian Association of America, Sixty Years of Activity.
