Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Refugees from Aegean Macedonia expect a positive court ruling

In these "moments of unseen Greek hysteria and aggressiveness over Macedonia" the refugees from Aegean Macedonia are expecting to win over the Greek politics with a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. They heard information that despite Greek lobbying, the court will bring a decision which orders Greece to cancel the laws which forbid them to come back to their properties. The decision is expected to come at the same time as the organized "Fourth World Meeting of the Children Refugees", which will take place in Skopje next month.

European Court of Human Rights

- "In moments of unseen Greek hysteria and aggressiveness over Republic of Macedonia, during fierce pressures and denial of our historic name and our Macedonian national identity, we are witnessing a wide unification of the Macedonian people and strengthening of our national spirit, which gives us new power and motivation to crown our meeting in July, together with the Macedonians from all parts of the planet, with another victory over the forces of anti-macedonism and their plans to cut the Macedonian national root", - said Georgi Ajanovski, President of the organizational committee of the "Fourth World Meeting of the Children Refugees".

Greece was lobbying against the decision because it will need to reimburse about 20.000 "children refugees", or their heirs. They will also request from United Nations to make public the archived material about their displacement during and after the Greek Civil War in 1948. Invitations for the Meeting in Skopje will also be sent to Ban Ki Mun, the General Secretary of UN, and to the governments in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Check Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, because these countries gave shelter to the children refugees, with the help of the International Red Cross. The meeting will be held from 18th to 21st of July 2008.

Link: Refugees from Aegean Macedonia expect to win over the Greek aggressive politics in the Court in Strasbourg (Channel 5, in Macedonian language).

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