du verstehst nicht, da steht die einzige straße die dieses dorf DIREKT mit der STADT verbindet
Washington, 18 April 2012 (MIA) - Macedonia is ready for NATO membership and the Alliance must remain open for new members, assessed former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Washington debate "Leadership: America's Critical Foreign Policy Role", organized by the Heritage Foundation.
"I worked very hard to resolve the Macedonian name issue. I know people are still trying to resolve the Macedonian name issue, and perhaps it will be. But I favor very much the integration of any European state that is ready, and it seems to me that Macedonia is ready", said Rice in response to a question by United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) President Metodija Koloski regarding Macedonia's NATO perspectives.
She recalled that at the time of the Bucharest Summit, the NATO communiqué actually said that Macedonia, as well as the Ukraine and Georgia, will become members of NATO, which was an affirmative statement of the rightness of their coming in.
"I have long believed that NATO must remain open to any European democratic state that wishes to join its ranks, because NATO was after all not to be an exclusive club, it was to be a collective security mechanism for democracies and in this regard, we pressed very hard, as a matter of fact, it integrated a number of East European states, including the Baltic states, which was thought to be at the time impossible to do", said Rice.
She hopes that NATO keeps remembering not just what it has meant to have these states in NATO, but what it has meant to these states to be in NATO.
"NATO and the European Union together have managed to make rather relatively smooth the transition from the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe to the integration of those states into Europe", underlined Condoleezza Rice, who currently works as Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and professor of political science at Stanford University.
Berlin, 17 April 2012 (MIA) - Germany supports Macedonia, however the process of enlargement is not likely to be discussed at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, says German center-right MP Roderich Kiesewetter.
"In Germany, we are very interested Macedonia to have perspectives both in NATO and in the EU and to be given a chance to become a full-fledged member of the Alliance as soon as possible. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, with Macedonia as a member, Western Balkans would be more stable and secondly, Macedonia would contribute to the Alliance because there are certain results yielded by meeting the action plan. A NATO membership makes sense and Germany supports it," Kiesewetter tells Deutsche Welle.
Asked if he was an optimist and whether Macedonia's diplomatic offensive prior to the Chicago event would result in a membership invitation, the MP says the NATO summit will not tackle the enlargement, because some members, such as France and the US, are primarily focused on their forthcoming elections.
"Afghanistan is also a strong challenge which requires solutions to be made. Other challenges are the missile deployment and Russia. I think that these are the issues that will dominate and I don't believe there will be room for progress that is desired by Macedonia," says Kiesewetter.
With Macedonia in NATO, the situation in the Western Balkans will be more stable, according to him. MP Kiesewetter expects countries like Greece - which are sceptical about the matter - to realise that an international aid has been granted to them amid the banking crisis and that it is their turn to contribute to the neighbourly ties between Balkan countries.
Kiesewetter adds that it is possible the 2004 resolution adopted by the Bundestag over the use of Macedonia's constitutional name to be reconsidered.
"There is interest in the Bundestag the issue to be discussed again. I would note that personally I support the idea," the German MP states.
Pchinja ist ein schönes Dorf, geh da öfter mal zu so einem Opa der mir da "baje" (magija) macht)))
19 April 2012 | 14:24 | FOCUS News Agency
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Skopje. Bulgaria is making its own version of the Da Vinci Code accusing the Macedonian secret police of stealing the relics of St John the Baptist from the St Dimitar Church in the Bulgarian town of Sliven, Macedonian online news edition eReporter comments.
According to eReporter, the sensational news was announced by Bozhidar Dimitrov, Director of the Bulgarian National Museum of History.
The relics were stolen a week ago but the news was kept secret for a while. Dimitorv, on the other hand, learned the news from a Macedonian colleague, who said that the relics will be used for a DNA test that would prove that the Macedonians are heirs apparent of God.
eReporter comments further that many people think that the relics, which Dimitrov found spectacularly at a small island close to the coastal town of Sozopol, do not belong to John the Baptist. Even prominent Bulgarian archaeologists do not believe in this and accused Dimitrov of playing with the feelings of the believers and that his only goal is to be the centre of the attention.
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