THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION - REVIEW OF ATTEMPTS TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL NATION

THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION - REVIEW OF ATTEMPTS TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL NATION

February 9, 1993

FAX United Nations publication, New York

On the cover: Coin from Amphipolis Region, I century BC Published in Athens, Greece, by THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES Iketa and Tolemeu 11 104 42 Athens, Greece

Note

The booklet is a translation of the text which, in February 1993 - just at the time when the United Nations in New York led talks on Macedonia’s accession to the world organization, and after the European Union failed to overcome opposition from Greece over the name of the country - was circulated in the United Nations Headquarters. In order to state the facts and to avoid similar attempts by others, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), the same year gave an answer to this booklet with a significantly longer and documented text - “Macedonia and its relations with Greece”, Skopje, 1993. Regarding this, again the next year, Spiridon Sfetas and Kiriakos Kentrotis of the Thessaloniki Institute for Balkan Studies gave their response. Basically they followed the contents of this brochure, by providing multiple sources or arguments. From their answers, we will transfer the last 15 pages that match chapters 13, 14 and 15 of the MANU study.