On Sunday 04 April 2004 16:06, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Well, it's only particularly crazy Greek governments which care; > most Greeks accept that Macedonia (the country) is *not* making > territorial claims on Greece Macedonia, and there are lots of other > situations in the world where a country has the same name as a > province in a neighboring country.
Although you are right in that most Greeks don't really care any more, unfortunately you represent a gross simplification of the issue. It's not just about territorial claims (that issue has been dropped thankfully). I sincerely do not want to enter such a debate here, it is totally OT and I want to respect the focus of the list. But still, I can hardly disagree with you about the fact that it's because of the mishandling of the Greek goverments that there actually *exists* such an issue. > So I wouldn't worry, as long as this is a list of *countries*, > anyway, since there's no other *country* called Macedonia (given > that Greece admits that Greek Macedonia is part of Greece). It's > not like the situation with the Congo, where there actually are two > countries with the same standard name, or the similar situation > which used to be true of Yemen, or further back Cameroon, etc. actually there was never doubt about the Greek part of Macedonia, not from the Greek side, that is :-) Anyway, I would really like to drop the issue here, because I feel bad discussing it... not least because I fear that we have ourselves messed things up and now it's too late to fix them, and if we did it would be at the expense of another country (and a neighbouring country which it is in our interest and benefit to have good relations with). Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
