Интервју со Антонис Самарас, најголемиот Македонски протагонист кој беше министер за надворешни работи во владата на Грција до 1992.
Constantine Karamanlis not only agreed with this view but went a step further:
“
The argument that Greece is exaggerating because that small country is not a threat to Greece… is contradictory and dangerous, not to say illogical. If Skopje is not a threat,
at this time, no one can predict or guarantee…
what correlation of forces will emerge in the near or distant future in the Balkans and the broader region. States do not only live in the present.
We must remember the past so as not to relive it in the future.”
Since then
Skopje has won the battle for international recognition as “Macedonia.” However,
as I have been claiming for years, they are losing the more important battle for their survival, for the preservation of their unity.
The
first move happened
in 2001 when the Albanians of Tetovo in eastern FYROM, rebelled. There was the threat of civil war, averted at the last minute by a compromise, one that was painful for Skopje, in the Ohrid accord.
FYROM essentially stopped being a “national cradle of Macedonians” and became a multi-ethnic state with two separate ethnic components. “Pseudo-Macedonian” irrendentism began to be questioned on the domestic front.
What we question from abroad – the existence of an ethnic state of “Macedonians” – is something that the Albanians of Tetovo began to question from within.
The
second step is happening
now with the secession of neighboring Kosovo from Serbia, making a new crisis with FYROM’s Albanians unavoidable; and it has already broken out.
For
Skopje today, the dilemma is whether it will break up or whether – as some are claiming – it will be transformed into a loose multi-ethnic federation (as a way of avoiding dissolution).
In every case
, the “Macedonian idea” will have been defeated once and for all. So we need time and must ensure that Greece does not pay the price of the critical developments to come.
Today the prime minister has ruled out any prospect of a dual name, but agrees to discuss a “composite” name. I still disagree with that, but welcome his avoidance of a dual name.
I believe it is impossible for Skopje to reach a compromise, since the most they can do is to accept a dual name, which we reject.
Such an outcome could prove beneficial to Greece,
since when the Karamanlis government leaves Skopje out of NATO it will be Skopje’s responsibility.
And we will gain time.
March 17, 2008
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_1_17/03/2008_94483
Уште една потврда дека политиката на Атина беше однапред зацртана, не само 1 година назад како што тврди Бакојани, туку пред повеќе од 20 години.
Грците купуваат време и нема да дозволат никакво интегрирање на Македонија во НАТО и ЕУ.
Одат на картата на внатрешно расцепкување на земјата преку Албанското прашање со што Македонија или би престанала да постои и би влегла во составот на друга/и држава/и или би станала конфедерација на два народи.
Работат на долг рок, не им се брза. Меѓутоа на нашиве внатрешни квинслизи и те како им се “жури“ со исполнување на Грчкиот план.