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MILS - NEWS                                  November 12, 1992


CLINTON ON MACEDONIA
Skopje. Newly elected United States President, Bill Clinton, told
Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis over the telephone
recently that he was not interested in meeting with the Greek PM.
Clinton told Greek newspaper "Mesimvrini" that the US should
recognise the Republic of Macedonia, but would only do so if the
republic fulfilled conditions laid out by the Helsinki Charter.

GLIGOROV READY FOR COMPROMISE
Skopje. Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov is ready to compromise
with Greece over the name issue.
Reports by the Reuters news agency, according to the Macedonian
Press Bureau in Sofia, Bulgaria, have claimed that Gligorov made
the offer of a deal with Greece during his recent visit to
Washington DC for talks with US officials.
The Macedonian President has insisted that the name Macedonia
must be retained.

PAPANDREAOU WORRIED OVER MACEDONIAN RECOGNITION
Skopje. "With the passing of each day, Skopje's (Greek euphemism
for Macedonia) problem of non-recognition is coming closer to
being resolved, despite it being discussed at the European
Community's December summit in Edinburgh," the Greek Socialist
(PASOK) leader, Andreas Papandreaou said.
Papandreaou attacked Germany for its foreign policy on the
'Skopje Republic' which could give it de facto recognition under
the name Macedonia. 

BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER GUARANTEES BORDERS
Skopje. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Stojan Ganev, said he
supported Greece's offer of guaranteeing Macedonia's existing
borders. Ganev said his country was prepared to support any
proposals that could bring stability to the Balkan region. In the
meantime, Greece, has sent its proposal to the governments of
Serbo-Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria.

ALBANIA RESPECTS MACEDONIA'S BORDERS
Skopje. The Albanian government has once again announced on state
television that it will respect Macedonia's existing borders and
territorial integrity. Tirana has declared that Macedonia's
borders have been guaranteed by the United Nations and the Paris 
Charter. Albania is a member of the UN and CSCE (Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe) and has officially agreed to
support the principle of not changing political borders by force.

ALBANIA PROTESTS TO CSCE
Skopje. Albanian representatives protested to the CSCE in Vienna
last night that the riot in Skopje, Macedonia, was an a example
of human rights violations on the part of the Macedonian
government against ethnic Albanians.

ALBANIAN PRESIDENT CALLS ON HIS PEOPLE TO IGNORE PROVOCATIONS
Skopje. The Albanian President, Sali Berisha, according to
reports by the Macedonian Press Bureau in Skopje, has called on
all Albanians regardless of where they live to ignore Serbian
acts of provocation.
Berisha said that Serbia's objective was to create conflict in
Macedonia and Kosovo.

COSIC SAYS HE WON'T RECOGNISE MACEDONIA BEFORE EC
Skopje. The President of Federal Serbo-Yugoslavia, Dobrica Cosic,
sent a letter recently informing the Greek President, Constantine
Karamanlis, that Belgrade would not recognise Macedonia before
the EC did.
He said that the EC's "harmful" sanctions against his country
were forcing Belgrade to recognise all the former Yugoslav
republics who had declared their independence. Cosic told
Karamanlis that the news that Macedonia would be recognised by
Serbo-Yugoslavia was not very well received by the Greek and
Serbian populations. Cosic said that Greece and Serbia had a
strong friendship and shared similar interests.

GREEK SPY TOLD TO LEAVE MACEDONIAN CAPITAL
Skopje. The Macedonian Interior Minister, Ljubomir Frckovski, has
asked an employee of the Greek consulate in Skopje to leave
Macedonia because of spying activities, according to a special
interview given by Frckovski to MILS.
Frckovski said that there were two other Greeks who presented
themselves as diplomatic staff, even though they had no official
accreditation. The Minister said the responsible authorities in
Macedonia would examine the status of the two, and would follow
international diplomatic conventions in judging whether or not
they could sat in country

MACEDONIAN DEPUTY PM ASKS GERMANY FOR HELP
Skopje. The Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister, Jovan Andonov, has
asked the German consulate in Skopje for help in getting Greece
to allow impounded goods in the Greek port of Salonica get
through to Macedonia.
Andonov also requested that Greece open its borders and permit
the transportation of imports and exports into and from
Macedonia.
The Deputy PM said his country's demand for oil was not being met
by Bulgarian suppliers because of the great transport 
difficulties.

MACEDONIAN RECOGNITION TO BE RAISED IN EP
Skopje. The Liberal-Democratic and Reform Parties are preparing
to put forward a resolution in the European Parliament urging
individual EC members to recognise Macedonia, according to
statement issued by the Macedonian Liberal and Reform Party.

AUSTRALIAN RADIO BROADCASTS ABOUT ETHNIC MACEDONIANS IN GREECE
Skopje. The program "Europeans" on the state-owned Australian
Broadcasting Corporation (radio service) recently ran a segment
on the Macedonian minority living in Greece.
The program mentioned Greece's recording of human rights
violations against its Macedonian minority, which predominantly
lives in the north of the country. The up-coming trial in Athens
of Macedonian human rights activists, Hristo Sideropoulos and
Anastasios Bulis (Tashko Bulev), was cited as an example of Greek
denial of basic human rights.
The program made the comment that Greece was afraid to recognise
Macedonia not because of its name, but because recognition would
lead to many ethnic Macedonians in Greece expressing their
national identity.

ALBANIAN KILLED IN GREECE
Skopje. Police in the northern Greek city of Edhessa (Voden) were
involved in a shoot out with a group of illegal Albanian
immigrants--one Albanian was killed, whilst a Greek policeman was
wounded.
The incident occurred at Edhessa's train station, after a group
of Albanians tried to spring free over thirty of their countrymen
destined to be deported to Albania.
According to the Greek press, over the past few months over a
thousand Albanians who had illegally crossed the border were sent
back.

CRIMINALS INVOLVED IN LAST WEEK'S RIOT
Skopje. Out of a total of one hundred and twenty-eight people
arrested in last week's riot in Skopje, the Macedonian capital,
37 had had previous criminal convictions. Eleven from the total
arrested, who were in hospital receiving treatment, also had
previous criminal convictions. Two out of the four that were
killed, according to the Macedonian police, were well known
criminals in Skopje and had fired upon police during the riot.

GOV'T OIL COMPANY
Skopje. The Macedonian government is considering forming a state-
owned oil company or setting up a public company partly owned by
the government and private shareholders.

GLIGOROV WANTS UN TROOPS
Skopje. The Macedonian President, Kiro Gligorov, has called for
the United Nations to send Peace Keeping troops to the republic.
Gligorov was speaking at a media conference in Skopje after
arriving from his official visit to the United States.
The Macedonian President said that UN observers in the republic
were doing a valuable job but they were no longer needed because
of the seriousness of the situation in the Balkans.
He said tensions were running high in Macedonia, and a "banal"
incident such as the Albanian riot in Skopje had been turned into
an event with far reaching consequences.
When asked by reporters about Greece and Serbia's offer to
guarantee Macedonia's border, President Gligorov responded that
this was merely a Greek-Serb political manoeuvre. He said his
country's territorial integrity was guaranteed by the Helsinki
Charter and the CSCE.
He added that since January 15, 1992, Macedonia had been forced
to live in an abnormal situation, despite fulfilling the EC
conditions for international recognition. Gligorov warned that
the EC would be responsible for the escalation of violence in the
Balkans, if it continued not to recognise Macedonia.
The Macedonian President said that during discussions in
Washington he was told by US officials that America would
maintain its current foreign policy on Macedonia, but would be
flexible on the Lisbon Declaration. The US wants a solution that
is accept acceptable to both sides. 
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