FYROM sends EC second note
The foreign minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Antonio Milososki, has sent a letter to the European Commission broaching the issue of a supposed Macedonian minority in Greece just two days after EC President Jose Manuel Barroso responded to a letter from FYROM’s prime minister on the same issue, it emerged yesterday. «Macedonia… has a number of ethnic groups which are politically active, use their own language in formal communication and develop their own cultural values,» Milososki wrote to Leonard Orban, commissioner for multilingualism. He also called on the EC «to encourage Greece, as an EU member, to provide a constructive model for the implementation of basic human rights, including language, that express the identity of ethnolinguistic minorities.» Athens had not commented on the letter by late yesterday. On Friday Barroso sent a letter to FYROM PM Nikola Gruevski, saying he could not intervene over claims of a «Macedonian minority» in Greece and suggested that Skopje should try harder to improve relations with Athens.
