Response to Foreign Minister of FYROM Antonio
Milososki statements to the Washington Times of July 10, 2007
July 15,
2007
Letter to the Editor (letters@washingtontimes.com) or FAX: (202) 715-0037
Washington Times
Experience has taught us that it is very difficult to communicate with people who have lived under, and have been trained by the yesteryear communist mentality. Case in point, the misleading and well-camouflaged claims made by the Honorable Foreign Minister of FYROM Antonio Milososki to the Washington Times of July 10, 2007.
The Minister claimed that his country "has gone from a security consumer to a security provider," hardly accurate and honest as one would expect. What the minister forgot to mention is the irredentist teachings in FYROM's schools and military academy that continue to poison the new generations with falsehoods, planting the seeds of hatred-to-come in the years ahead and in clear violation of the UN brokered "Intermediate Agreement" signed by his country and Greece. FYROM today is more a picture of a terrorist training camp rather than a "security provider".
"Our name is the cornerstone of our country" said the good Minister. What he left out was when and how they received that name? Did the name belong to somebody else for millennia before Tito and Stalin in 1944 re-baptized "Vardarska Banovina" into "Macedonia" usurping the name Macedonia from the northern province of Greece with the ultimate goal of annexing Macedonia away from Greece and gaining access to the Aegean? Unfortunately for the minister history recorded that President Harry S. Truman provided the arms and the Greeks provided the rivers of blood to stop Tito's and Stalin's plans, rescued the Macedonia province and the rest of Greece from the communists deadly bear embraces and kept Greece and her Macedonia province on the western side of the Iron Curtain. What they lost in battle then, they now expect to be given on a silver platter.
Recently, the Honorable Mr. Milososki was caught ill prepared in his attempt to teach the Hellene-Americans Greek mythology regarding Sisyphus. It appears that he is not doing any better with Greek Philosophers and philosophy. We inform him that in the democratic West - that his country aspires to become a member some day - we honor the Greek philosopher Aristotle who had said, "integrity does not consist of possessing honors but of deserving them". In short, it is not enough to call yourself a Macedonian, unless you deserve to be called Macedonian. If you do not deserve it, then you face the consequences dictated by the law for identity theft!
Mr. Milososky, your people once claimed that there were about 750,000 of them in the USA. The 2000 census revealed the truth as being not even 40,000. You now claim that 120 countries have recognized you by your self-declared identity. Would you kindly produce such a list to the public and identify exactly, which countries have recognized you so officially by government-to-government official letter and which others are only by coerced bilateral agreements between companies in your country and other countries?
We hope you enjoyed your visit to the United States of America Mr. Milososki. The truth can neither be killed nor ignored. The name "Macedonia" is an indisputable part of Greece's historic and cultural legacy and the Hellenic world will never give up its ownership.
Nina Gatzoulis
Supreme President
Pan-Macedonian Association, USA
