Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has opened a new front in the Greek Government’s negotiations with the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by calling for a national referendum by the citizens of Greece.
Although he is the Defense Minister of the current government, he is also the head of the Independent Greeks party (ANEL is the Greek acronym), a right wing political party that is the junior coalition partner in the current government headed by the left wing Syriza party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
“The Greek people will have to decide on the unprecedented decision to cede their history and civilization to another people,” Kammenos said in an op-ed in Kyriakatiki Dimokratia newspaper published Sunday morning in Athens, adding that this would be the “first time this would happen in the history of humankind.”
«Ο Ελληνικός Λαός θα πρέπει να αποφασίσει για την πρωτοφανή, στην ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας, εκχώρηση της ιστορίας και του πολιτισμού του σε άλλον λαό,” Kammenos wrote in Greek.
He added in the op-ed piece that “Including the term ‘Macedonia’ in the name would signal the downgrading of Greek civilization in the centuries to come.” (“Συμπερίληψη του όρου «Μακεδονία» στην ονομασία θα σημάνει τη συρρίκνωση του Ελληνικού πολιτισμού για τους αιώνες που ακολουθούν.”
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Thank God for Panos Kammenos and his unwavering stance against the Marxists and traitors of SYRIZA and Nea Democratia-who would commit treason and sell our cultural heritage for geo political games…suicide by both SYRIZA and NEA DEMOCRATIA…BRING ON GOLDEN DAWN..!!!!
for more information please visit the following web page …
https://sites.google.com/site/philosophygreekancient/the-naked-truth—here-is-the-proof-that-macedonia-is-really-greek-the-minorities-in-the-former-yugoslav-republic-of-macedonia-f-y-r-o-m-fyrom-the-population-of-f-y-r-o-m-fyrom-is-an-amorphous-slavic-mass-without-a-developed-national-consciousness-monkeydonians-can-go-cry
THE NAKED TRUTH – Here is the Proof that Macedonia is Really Greek. The Minorities in the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia F.Y.R.O.M. ( FYROM ). The population of F.Y.R.O.M. ( FYROM ) is an amorphous Slavic mass without a developed national consciousness. Monkeydonians can go cry 🙂
If Greece accepts “Macedonia” does that mean that I have to accept a non-Greek Alexander? For the sake of historical accuracy, it must be understood that Macedonia was and is Greek.
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FYROM is Bulgaria. FYROMians are Bulgarians brainwashed to hate Bulgaria and to think they’re a separate ethnic group. THEY’RE NOT! They speak a dialect of Bulgarian! THEY ARE SLAVS, THEY ARE BULGARIANS! Alexander the Great was GREEK!! Tsar Samuel was BULGARIAN!!!?
FYROM should be called “Western Bulgaria”, not Macedonia. They are slavs, ancient macedonia was a greek kingdom and they were not slavs.?
Slavs and Albanians should feel proud for their origin no need to steal anything ,,,History and names … PS they will soon rename the Airport “Maria Tereza” and will remove the fake statue of Alexander the Great?.
LONG LIVE TITO .HE BAPTAISED THEM MAKEDONIANS, POOR SOUTHSLAVIC NATION!!?
It would be more accurate as F.Y.R.O.Mongolia?, or Vardarskians ?, and the people of the country Newbies ?
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That is, France has vetoed the name Great Britain (and France has an region called Bretagne ( Brittany ) and changed its name to “United Kingdom”. And we are not talking about a small country but about Great Britain!
So we can not impose this small state?
Why are we so hurried? They need to join the EU and NATO, not us.
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A top official in Zoran Zaev’s Social Democratic Union ( the political party ) of F.Y.R.O.M., who also asked not to be named, warned that Greece “could keep the same position for two centuries. We should find a solution to deblock the process of integration with Nato and the EU”.
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“The question is: what is the price of joining the club?” asked Toni Deskoski, a law professor in Skopje.
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The US, NATO, and EU position
The position of these governments and organizations is also well-known and amounts essentially to a tired reiteration that the two countries must come to a “mutually acceptable solution” and that since “Greece is in the club, and F.Y.R.O.M. is not,” the burden is on F.Y.R.O.M.
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