Declaration of Macedonians (Oct. 1, 1995) at UN Rally against “Interim Agreement".
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From: Slavko Mangovski
Date: 1995/10/09
Subject: Declaration
Sunday, October 1, 1995
United Nations Plaza, New York City
We, the Macedonians, having organized this peaceful rally today, to protest the ignominious agreement signed on September 13, 1995, by the foreign ministers of the Republic of Macedonia, on one hand, and Greece, on the other and sponsored by the UN, whereby our human rights, as people, and our identity, integrity and dignity are most seriously compromised and flouted, issue the following
DECLARATION
• With the genuine feeling of pride, which is present in the collective consciousness and in the genes of all Macedonians concerning our ethnogenesis from ancient times to the present;
• With a sense of belonging to a distinct European people known as Macedonians, conscious and proud of our past, our national name and identity, our cultural heritage, our religion, our customs, our traditions, our language, our folklore and rites and rituals;
• With the determination to win for ourselves a place of respect, honor and dignity among the families of mankind;
• With an understanding that all people are created equal by God;
• We, the Macedonians, descendants of the ancient Macedonian kings Amyntas and Perdikka, Philip and Alexander; followers of the early Christian teachings of the Holy Apostle Paul; followers of the medieval Christian-Orthodox teachings of the Macedonian Saints Cyril and Methodius and their Macedonian disciples S.S. Clement and Naum; descendants of the medieval Macedonian king Samuel; descendants of the fighters against the Ottoman Empire Petar Delyan, Georgi Voyteh and Karposh; descendants of the fighters in the glorious Ilinden Uprising Goce Delchev, Pitu Guli, Dame Gruev and Jane Sandanski; descendants of the fighters of resistance against Nazi and communist oppression during WWII Metodija Andonov Chento; divided by brutal force and against our will among our neighbours during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913; and condemned by the unjust Bucharest Treaty of August 10, 1913, which expired in 1987;
• We, the Macedonians, from Aegean Macedonia, from Vardar Macedonia, from Pirin Macedonia, from Little Prespa and elsewhere;
• We, the exiled and suffering children of our Holy and Biblical motherland, Macedonia, which has nourished and sustained us for myriads of generations, hereby affirm our indomitable spirit and our unwavering determination to strive for our national and human rights, to succeed and never to yield!
And furthermore we declare that:
• Starting from the principles of the Charter of the UN, from the goals and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; from the International Declaration of Human Rights; from the Final Document of the European Conference for Security and Cooperation; from the principles of the Paris Charter for New Europe, according to which, the countries, members of these organizations and signatories of these documents have committed themselves to respect and equality of all peoples and their right for self-determination;
• We, the Macedonians, do hereby most solemnly declare, that we completely honor and abide by the principles contained in the Charter of the UN and that the so called “Interim agreement” signed on September 13, 1995 contradicts and flouts these vary same principles;
• We condemn the signing by the Republic of Macedonia of that agreement and call for an imposition of an immediate moratorium on it;
• We call upon the parliament of the Republic of Macedonia not to ratify that agreement until the Macedonian public opinion has been consulted in an open and democratic way;
• We assert that the government of the Republic of Macedonia has sabotaged all the democratic processes whereby issues of vital national interest have been flagrantly compromised and the democratic and popular voice of the Macedonian people has been rendered irrelevant;
• We claim, like all other members of the UN to have a sovereign, natutal, historical and civilizational right to be recognized under our one and only name Macedonia; with all the accompanying attributes of a sovereign state, including our national flag, national anthem and constitution, as they are at the present time;
• We ask all four of our neighbours: Greece, Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria to recognize the Human Rights of the Macedonians who live in those countries, in accordance with the International Law and the Principles of the European Union;
• We urge the UN and the International Community to prevent Greece’s blackmail of Macedonia;
• We refuse, in principle, to accept the artificial argument which Greece has impose upon Macedonia regarding our name, national symbols and constitution;
• We ask that Greece recognize the existence of a Macedonian ethnic entity within her borders and permit them to exercise their basic human rights to worship in their own Macedonian churches and receive elementary education in their native Macedonian language, according to International Law;
• We ask that all of the exiled Macedonians be allowed to return to their ancestral homes of which they have been dispossessed by the Greek government during this century;
• We want unimpeded and open flaw of people and goods in the spirit of the free Europe;
• We appeal to the free and democratic world to recall that the Badinter Arbitrary International Commission, made up of the high justices of the constitutional Supreme Courts of five members of the EU, ruled unanimously and recommended that Macedonia qualified for recognition as an independent and sovereign state and that “the name Macedonia does not imply territorial pretensions towards any of its neighbours.”
• It is high time that Macedonia and the Macedonians get the respect that we deserve!
To those aims we devote ourselves and herein put our signatures:
1. Macedonian Human Rights Movement (NE USA)
2. Macedonian Orthodox Church SS Cyril and Methodius of Cedar Grove, NJ
3. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Nikola of Totowa, NJ
4. Macedonian Soccer Club of Clifton, NJ
5. Macedonian World Congress
6. Macedonian World Congress of North America
7. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Clement of Ohrid in NY
8. Macedonian Society of NY
9. United Macedonians of Toronto, Canada
10. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Dimitrija of S. Florida
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From: Slavko Mangovski
Date: 1995/10/09
Subject: Declaration
Sunday, October 1, 1995
United Nations Plaza, New York City
We, the Macedonians, having organized this peaceful rally today, to protest the ignominious agreement signed on September 13, 1995, by the foreign ministers of the Republic of Macedonia, on one hand, and Greece, on the other and sponsored by the UN, whereby our human rights, as people, and our identity, integrity and dignity are most seriously compromised and flouted, issue the following
DECLARATION
• With the genuine feeling of pride, which is present in the collective consciousness and in the genes of all Macedonians concerning our ethnogenesis from ancient times to the present;
• With a sense of belonging to a distinct European people known as Macedonians, conscious and proud of our past, our national name and identity, our cultural heritage, our religion, our customs, our traditions, our language, our folklore and rites and rituals;
• With the determination to win for ourselves a place of respect, honor and dignity among the families of mankind;
• With an understanding that all people are created equal by God;
• We, the Macedonians, descendants of the ancient Macedonian kings Amyntas and Perdikka, Philip and Alexander; followers of the early Christian teachings of the Holy Apostle Paul; followers of the medieval Christian-Orthodox teachings of the Macedonian Saints Cyril and Methodius and their Macedonian disciples S.S. Clement and Naum; descendants of the medieval Macedonian king Samuel; descendants of the fighters against the Ottoman Empire Petar Delyan, Georgi Voyteh and Karposh; descendants of the fighters in the glorious Ilinden Uprising Goce Delchev, Pitu Guli, Dame Gruev and Jane Sandanski; descendants of the fighters of resistance against Nazi and communist oppression during WWII Metodija Andonov Chento; divided by brutal force and against our will among our neighbours during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913; and condemned by the unjust Bucharest Treaty of August 10, 1913, which expired in 1987;
• We, the Macedonians, from Aegean Macedonia, from Vardar Macedonia, from Pirin Macedonia, from Little Prespa and elsewhere;
• We, the exiled and suffering children of our Holy and Biblical motherland, Macedonia, which has nourished and sustained us for myriads of generations, hereby affirm our indomitable spirit and our unwavering determination to strive for our national and human rights, to succeed and never to yield!
And furthermore we declare that:
• Starting from the principles of the Charter of the UN, from the goals and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; from the International Declaration of Human Rights; from the Final Document of the European Conference for Security and Cooperation; from the principles of the Paris Charter for New Europe, according to which, the countries, members of these organizations and signatories of these documents have committed themselves to respect and equality of all peoples and their right for self-determination;
• We, the Macedonians, do hereby most solemnly declare, that we completely honor and abide by the principles contained in the Charter of the UN and that the so called “Interim agreement” signed on September 13, 1995 contradicts and flouts these vary same principles;
• We condemn the signing by the Republic of Macedonia of that agreement and call for an imposition of an immediate moratorium on it;
• We call upon the parliament of the Republic of Macedonia not to ratify that agreement until the Macedonian public opinion has been consulted in an open and democratic way;
• We assert that the government of the Republic of Macedonia has sabotaged all the democratic processes whereby issues of vital national interest have been flagrantly compromised and the democratic and popular voice of the Macedonian people has been rendered irrelevant;
• We claim, like all other members of the UN to have a sovereign, natutal, historical and civilizational right to be recognized under our one and only name Macedonia; with all the accompanying attributes of a sovereign state, including our national flag, national anthem and constitution, as they are at the present time;
• We ask all four of our neighbours: Greece, Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria to recognize the Human Rights of the Macedonians who live in those countries, in accordance with the International Law and the Principles of the European Union;
• We urge the UN and the International Community to prevent Greece’s blackmail of Macedonia;
• We refuse, in principle, to accept the artificial argument which Greece has impose upon Macedonia regarding our name, national symbols and constitution;
• We ask that Greece recognize the existence of a Macedonian ethnic entity within her borders and permit them to exercise their basic human rights to worship in their own Macedonian churches and receive elementary education in their native Macedonian language, according to International Law;
• We ask that all of the exiled Macedonians be allowed to return to their ancestral homes of which they have been dispossessed by the Greek government during this century;
• We want unimpeded and open flaw of people and goods in the spirit of the free Europe;
• We appeal to the free and democratic world to recall that the Badinter Arbitrary International Commission, made up of the high justices of the constitutional Supreme Courts of five members of the EU, ruled unanimously and recommended that Macedonia qualified for recognition as an independent and sovereign state and that “the name Macedonia does not imply territorial pretensions towards any of its neighbours.”
• It is high time that Macedonia and the Macedonians get the respect that we deserve!
To those aims we devote ourselves and herein put our signatures:
1. Macedonian Human Rights Movement (NE USA)
2. Macedonian Orthodox Church SS Cyril and Methodius of Cedar Grove, NJ
3. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Nikola of Totowa, NJ
4. Macedonian Soccer Club of Clifton, NJ
5. Macedonian World Congress
6. Macedonian World Congress of North America
7. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Clement of Ohrid in NY
8. Macedonian Society of NY
9. United Macedonians of Toronto, Canada
10. Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Dimitrija of S. Florida
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