The petition*
We, the undersigned state that:
Under no circumstances should the international community and the international legal system allow that the principle of self-identification interfere with the cultural and historic identity belonging to another nation for millennia. No one should be allowed to use a term ethnologically that belongs to another nation culturally and historically for centuries. In our case it should be perceived as an obvious attempt to appropriate everything Macedonian.
There is no doubt that the exclusive use of the name “Macedonia,” primarily adopted by the FYROM Slavs and their promotion as “ethnic Macedonians” is a stimulus for expansionist claims by FYROM and its Diaspora. Claims to “their rights to self-identification” are unjustified and violate our rights. We therefore strongly object that a Slavic nation, north of Greece, can use the name “Macedonian” to identify its citizens, a term that forms part of Greece’s history and culture for thousands of years. Recognition of a “Macedonian” ethnicity, clearly and without a doubt, would claim anything Macedonian, including history, culture and even land, destabilizing among others the entire region.
*The petition will be sent to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as PM George Papandreou.
Νote: Please avoid double-signing the petition.
http://www.macedoniaontheweb.eu/index.php?option=com_petitions&view=petition&id=40
