Skopje, December 9 (MIA) - The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains to be a piece of paper for Macedonian minorities in Bulgaria, Greece, and to some extent in Albania, despite the fact that all three countries have signed the document and are bound to respect it.
This is statement of representatives of associations and political parties of Macedonians living in these three countries. They hold a press conference Tuesday in honor of tomorrow's global observance of the 60th anniversary of the UN document, a jubilee which coincides with the exodus of Aegean Macedonians from Greece in 1948.
The fight of Macedonians in Greece for their human rights is resuming and aims to attract the attention of public worldwide to the ethnic intolerance in this country, said Metodija Tosevski, chairman of the Coordination Conference of Aegean Macedonians.
Hristos Sideropulos, one of the most fierce fighters for the human rights of Macedonians in Greece, commended the Government of being the first one since Macedonia's independence to urge for respecting the human rights of Macedonian minorities in the neighborhood.
He pointed out that Greece and Bulgaria had not yet ratified some protocols of the UN Universal Declaration and refused to recognize the existence of the Macedonian minorities.
Albania has recognized the Macedonian minority, but its representatives don't enjoy some rights, such as education in the native language, said Eftim Mitreski, member of the party of Macedonians in Albania - the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration.
Source: http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/488658/index.html
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