On behalf of the following Hellenic Associations, we are writing to express our profound disappointment that your company is hosting a recent Travelocity add, which represents the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (The FYROM), as Macedonia: http://adventures.yahoo.com/macedonia;
_ylt=AgdJ4IlCPDLspXSObTTmKuzCW8sF;
_ylu=X3oDMTBjYXJwOTB2BHNlYwNyYmEtaG9tZQ
This webpage only offers blatant misinformation, lies, and obvious political objectives. There are volumes of historical evidence that the inhabitants of Ancient Macedonia, much as the peoples of Attica, Ionia, Peloponnesus, Epirus, Thessaly, etc were the peoples that comprised the ancient Greek world, and were exactly that, Greek.
Travelocity
received a multitude of protesting letters from individuals who care about
the true historic facts and oppose the falsification of Hellenic history
which emanates from Greece’s northern neighbor and thus removed the
offensive add from its domain. Now we are asking Yahoo travel to remove
immediately this provoking webpage from its site.
Be
aware that you are participating in a campaign that borders on the
dissemination of hatred and the denial of universally recognized rights of
identity and cultural sovereignty.
The
true descendants of ancient Macedonia are the Greeks, who have always, and
to this date, still live, in the northern Greek province of Macedonia.
Furthermore, all of Alexander the Great’s lands, including their
capital, Pella, are squarely and rightfully well within Greek borders.
The
extend of Richard Bangs “efforts” is reason for great concern amongst
the Greek communities in North America and beyond. Everyone who WAS
pleased with your company’s services will certainly be informed about
this “campaign”. We assure you every Greek will inform his/her
friends, associates and co-workers.
With this letter we formally request that you desist from engaging in state sponsored irredentism and propaganda and stop hosting the Richard Bangs web/blog advertising campaign. We expect a positive response, which can be sent to HEC@hec.greece.org by Tuesday September 5, 2006. If there is no response, we regret to say, but all the following Hellenic Associations will advise their members about your misrepresentation of our History.
An apology to over twenty million Greek people the world over would be warranted as well.
Sincerely,
Pan-Macedonian
Association of USA – Panos D. Spiliakos, Supreme President: PanMacedonian@gmail.com
, www.panmacedonian.info
14th Ave., Whitestone, NY
11357-1730
Pan-Macedonian Association of Canada – Haralampos Moutoussidis-President: http://www.macedoniansincanada.com , headquarters@macedoniansincanada.com
Pan-Macedonian
Association of Australia-Demitris Minas, President:
470 Queens
Pde
CLIFTON HILL,3068, VIC
Pan-Macedonian Association of Europe-Archimandrite, Dr. Panteleimon Tsorbatzoglou, President:
Macedonian Chapter of Africa-Gregory Garitsis, President
Hellenic Electronic Center: HEC@hec.greece.org.
Hellenic American National Council, Theodore Spyropoulos, President: http://www.hancusa.org
Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) Chris Tomaras, Vice President of SAE (North and South America): http://www.saeamerica.org/en/index.html
American
Hellenic Institute (AHI)-Eugene Rossidis, President: http://www.ahiworld.com/contact.html
Hellenic Federation of Northern California-President Ted Laliotis: http://www.hellenicfederation.org
, ted@laliotis.org
The Nexus, encompassing the:- MACEDONIA NEXUS - MAKEDONIA THE GLOBAL IDENTITY OF HELLENES, - Hellenic Advancement Council, - Australian Citizens Committee for Civil Concerns, - Saint Nicholas Australian Settlement Union (New South Wales Premier’s Community Award, March 2003), - Hellenic Community Care Committee, - Australian Hellenes & Europe Nexus, - Socio-educational Society of the Former Athenaeum Communiversity (Australia’s Bicentennial Endorsed Activity Certificate, awarded 1988), - Hellenic Genocides, Genocides Cultural, Criminal Holocausts, International, - Justice Nexus for Cyprus, - Britons Australia & UK Nexus, - Hellenes (Suezians, Aegyptiots, UnLtd) Sydney, - Sydney Hellenic Orthodox Nexus for Scouts & Guides, - and other community nexuses
C/-
49A Tramway Street, Rosebery, New South Wales, Australia 2018 9667
3045. gse@tadaust.org.au
George
Reganis, President of American Hellenic Congress-Northville Twp, MI
Dr.
Dimitri Pallas, President- Foundation for Modern Greek Studies, Northville
Twp, MI
George
Reganis, President of Federation of Sterea Hellas US and Canda-Broomfield
Hills, MI
