4.07.08 - 22:00 Greece fears from Macedonian verity and justice

According Macedonian news agency Makfax:

Greece rejects talks on expelled Macedonians

Athens rebuffed calls by Macedonian authorities for Macedonians who were expelled from Greece during the civil war to be allowed to reclaim lost properties and apply for Greek citizenship.

Greek diplomats dismissed the comments from Skopje as a departure from the focus of talks which are aimed at finding a mutually acceptable solution to the name issue.

Athens: Macedonian minority - "non-existent issue"

Greece called the issue of the Macedonian minority "non-existent and ungrounded", reaffirming the long-standing of its denial and non-recognition.

This is the first reaction of the official Athens, after Macedonian side demanded to include in the name talks the issue of the rights and restitution of properties of the expelled Macedonians from Greece after the civil war.

"An unfortunate attempt to create a non-existent and ungrounded issue," the spokesman of the Greek Foreign Ministry Yorgos Koumoutsakos said, commenting the statements of the government in Skopje about the Macedonian minority in northern Greece.

Koumoutsakos described the statements of the Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki as "ungrounded, unqualified and ungrounded attempt to make an impression" from the Macedonian side.

Koumoutsakos sees the issue of minority as part of the series of unacceptable statements coming from the Macedonian side.

For the Greeks, the only goal in the name talks is to reach "a mutually acceptable solution on the name issue."

Rights of Macedonians expelled from Greece guaranteed under international conventions

After official Athens denied again the existence of the Macedonian minority, some sources of the Macedonian government said.:

Macedonians expelled from Greece and their properties there are not issues of choice in talks with Athens, but their rights are guaranteed by the international standards and conventions,

Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski met today with the representatives of the Associations of the Refugees from the Civil War in Greece.

The Associations are currently preparing the annual gathering of the children-refugees from Aegean Macedonia, slated for end of July in Skopje.

However, Macedonian truth will out!!

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________