Document Exposes US-FYROM Secret Co-Operation

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The issue of FYROM's accession to NATO is coming up in the month of May, and the issue of the name has yet to be resolved. FYROM has a right to join any international organization it pleases, but only after it resolves the issue of the name. Hellasfrappe fully supports this stance, and will never compromise this position. But because we see a suspicious silence from the mainstream media about this in Greece, we have decided to publish articles, past and present, every so often about the issue so that people can get a better understanding of why, what, where and when. Also, it helps all Hellenes to understand that on matters of national importance we must be united and only have one position. Today's article is no exception. It presents a classified document that was featured in a 2008 Greek newspaper clearly exposing the US' cooperation with the FYROM government on the issue of the name.

More exactly, in an article that was first published on December 28 2008, from the "ethnos tis kyriakis" newspaper, a classified document was presented from the US State Department that proves that there is a "secret cooperation" between the US and Skopje governments on the issue of FYROM. According to the article, that was brought to our attention from the macedonianandhellenicland news site, the proposal submitted by Special Envoy for the FYROM issue Mathew Nimetz, had been suggested by the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was recorded in the letter sent by the US ambassador in Skopje in June 2007.

According to the above news site, the letter was received by the State Department, the Security Council and the US General Headquarters. The US diplomat provocatively notes that the issue of the language and nationality will be handled without the participation of Greece using internal UN documents.

The conservative government of Costas Karamanlis who was in power at the time reacted strongly. The representative of foreign affairs' ministry during this period was George Koumoutsakos, who had stated at the time that Greece had/has a clear stance on the issue of FYROM. HE had said that negotiations will only take place within the framework of the United Nations and secondly that Greece's position proposed a compound name that was geographically oriented.

According to the 2008 report in 'Ethnos', the above classified document was signed by the then US ambassador in Skopje Gillian A. Milovanovic, with recipients the US National Security Counsel and secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Defence Robert Gates.

The report on macedonianhellenicland says that the content of the proposals, as it has come to constitute the Matthew Nimetz plan, was shaped after consultations in Skopje between the then US Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic and Skopjan prime minister Nikola Gruevski, President Branko Crvenkovski, in the presence of US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (at the time) Christopher R. Hill. The negotiations took place between 25 and 27 July 2008.

Reference - http://www.macedoniahellenicland.eu/content/view/19/76/lang,el/