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MACEDONIA
BULGARIAN
AMBASSADOR DIMITROV RECEIVES WARNING ABOUT RADKO
CASE
31/10/2000
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31/10/2000
TURMOIL FOLLOWING THE
CONFERENCE OF SOCIETY OF BULGARIANS IN MACEDONIA
BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR
DIMITROV RECEIVES WARNING ABOUT RADKO CASE
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Yesterday, the Bulgarian ambassador to Macedonia, Angel
Dimitrov, was summoned by the Macedonian Ministry of Home
Affairs because of his attendance at the opening conference
of the Radko society held on Friday in the Holiday Inn
Hotel in Skopje. The Deputy Minister, Viktor Dimovski
warned Ambassador Dimitrov that his act was inappropriate
and can be interpreted as a support to activities which do
not contribute to developing cooperation and good relations
between the two countries. `The presence of a high
Bulgarian official at an event intended to deny the
Macedonian identity is not within the framework of the
usual diplomatic activities in the country which has
offered him hospitality,' said a representative of the Home
Ministry.
The Macedonian Agency for Immigration condemned the scandal
in the Holiday Inn Hotel and the address of Gjorgji
Mladenov, one of the participants, who openly expressed his
belief that Macedonia should be conjoined to Bulgaria,
thereby denying the existence of the Macedonian nation,
language and culture. The Agency demands that Mladenov
should be permanently forbidden to enter Macedonia. They
consider him mentally ill, thrown out of the Macedonian
Patriotic Organization in Canada due to his Bulgarian
greater-state ideas. The claims of the Agency have been
confirmed by the leadership of the Macedonian Patriotic
Organization. Representatives of this organization said
that the statements given by Mladenov are his own views and
they do not reflect the Organization's official position.
Most of the Macedonian political parties assessed the ideas
of the Radko society as greater-state and fascist. The
Socialist Party of Macedonia believes that all those
involved in the Radko case will manage to get away. They
demand that Prime Minister Georgievski should resign. MAAK-
KP announced a rally to be held tomorrow at the Macedonia
Square with the watchword `This is Macedonia and we are
Macedonians'.The society Radko scandal was tabled in the
Parliament too. The MP from LDP, Petar Goshev, even though
continuously heckled by the Speaker of the Parliament,
Ilijaz Halimi, managed to lay out facts as to who was
Vancho Mihajlov and what kind of ideas he had working under
his pseudonym Radko. The public also condemned the attack
on the journalist Spase Shuplinovski at the hands of the
society's supporters. The police said that they had caught
those who attacked him and they would have to face charges.
The same expects the boys who set off the smoke bombs. They
are still at liberty though.
Most of the independent media criticized the Macedonian
state-owned television and the daily `Nova Makedonija',
which is controlled by the governing parties, because of
leaving too little room to report on the scandal that upset
Macedonia.
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