[Chapter-delegates] Welcome again...

[Veni Markovski]

At 08:56 PM 21.4.2006 '?.'  +0300, Erkki I. Kolehmainen wrote:
>Please be serious.

Dear colleagues,
Please, please. I am not sure that this discussion is for this mailing list.

Here are my two cents, as someone who is quite familiar with the 
situation around the name, the chapters, the relations between Greece 
and FYROM, and between Macedonia and Bulgaria (by coincidence, today 
a number of Bulgarian ministers met with a number of their colleagues 
from Macedonia), but also about the creation of the Macedonian 
nation, language and state... as probably not that many people on 
this list. In fact me and my family are part of this history. If 
someone is more interested, drop me a personal note, as I really 
don't see a reason to discuss this on the mailing list. If I am 
mistaken, please, let me know.

Nikos is quite right that the name used by the UN and EU is FYROM. At 
the same time a number of countries (among them Bulgaria, which has 
another long-lasting discussion with Macedonia about the language 
used there) have recognized Macedonia with its "constitutional name". 
Well, Bulgaria didn't recognize the Macedonian language, so some 
agreements between the two countries were discussed to be signed and 
in their text it says, "the agreements are written in the 
"constitutional languages" of the two countries" (and not "in 
Bulgarian and Macedonian")

Sooner or later, Greece and FYROM will find a solution to this 
problem, and this is an issue only among themselves.I believe our 
Greek colleagues have the right to use tha name "Macedonia, the 
Former Yugoslav Republic of" (as it's at the IANA web site), or just 
FYROM, while others can use the name upon our colleagues have 
established themselves.

In anycase, the Greek ISOC chapter supported the creation of their 
Northern neighbours chapter, which is the important issue.

best,
Veni