(1) I would call your attention to the Swiss genetics organization (sorry that I don’t know the name but I believe that you Google this and find it fairly readily since the results were announced publicly) that has recently and successfully analyzed the genetics of some subset of people living in the Republic of Macedonia. (I don’t know how, offhand, how many people were sampled or how they were chosen or any other aspects of the methodology.)

(2) The results show that at least a plurality of the genes derive from the time period around Alexander The Great. This is to say that rather that — as the previous commenter wrote — “These other people, who arrived one thousand years after Alexander The Great…” — that today’s Macedonians obviously mixed/intermarried with the inhabitants of the time and so are part of each group — rather than just “newcomers.” I believe that this is an important distinction to make.

Kofos offers a concise and outstanding analysis, which encapsulates the sum and substance of the Greek perspective on the dispute. The author presents his tangible and constructive arguments with remarkable clarity, eloquence and authority. Importantly, he does this in a sober and non-nonsense way — not as an apologist but rather, as a seasoned diplomat and scholar who is keenly and earnestly interested in a viable solution of the problem in hand. His recommendation for a consensus nomenclature along the lines of “Republic of Vardar Makedonija” (for the denomination of the country) and the adoption of the terms “Makedontsi” (noun) and “Makedonski” (adjective) -in deference to the terminology used by the nationals of that country, is likely to appeal to a broad international readership. Also, these recommendations could serve as the framework for future negotiations.

With his latest essay, Evangelos Kofos lives up to his reputation as a highly respected scholar and diplomat, no doubt, Greece’s foremost authority on Macedonian history and politics. The comments and conclusions spelled out in his analysis reflect, in a fundamental way, Greece’s earnest desire for mutual respect and realization of a lasting solution with its northern neighbor.

Christos D. Katsetos, MD, PhD, FRCPath
Professor of Pathology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USA

L.

Thanks
George Tsapanos

1. For every reference mentioning a mere 52% of geographic Macedonia as greek, we have at least one hundred mentioning a 75% if not more.
This must be brough to the attention of the international community/opinion so they can make their own conclusions.
Let alone of course, that the map of geographic Macedonia posted in the site of the “Macedonian Heritage” needs to be replaced immediately. If such map is a “fake” one when it is used by the American NATO forces, it should be a “fake” also when is posted by M-H.

2. ELIAMEP has no business sitting in the same table with people from the “Ouranio Toxo” as is the case in here:
http://www.bbnet.org.yu/bdnet/agenda/list.htm
or with Jordanovski and others belonging to the CDRSEE as the case is in here:
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/ext/seesox/OST_files/11(2).pdf
or/and participating in various “suspicious” projects like EXLINEA,FORCED MIGRATIONS IN KASTORIA-MACEDONIA,COLLABORATION BETWEEN IMXA-TURKEY-”MACEDONIA” (http://www.balkannet.info/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=61), in the various meetings in Halki between Britain-Greece, etc.etc. Time to become more patriotic and more Hellenic according to its own definition.

3. ICG and its people from Soros to Clark to Cattaui to Solarz to Brzezinski etc. together with Nimetz,Mroz,Brademas,Dukakis,Carras,etc. are following and executing plans in many ways and instances against the Hellenic interests with regards Macedonia, let alone the Aegean and Cyprus. ELIAMEP must decide for its own priorities.

4. There is an immediate need for the Hellenic ethnic minority in FYROM to be officially recognized by Greece, (and no one dares to tell me please that we don’t have one).
I, myself have at least a dozen of family members left behind, and we grew up with the notion that true Hellenes we do not leave our people behind.
Passports must be given right away, the same way the Bulgarians do for their people in FYROM.
We know pretty well we are ours and who are not.

5. The term “Slavo-Macedonians” must be eliminated right away. If anything “Slav” indicates “linguistic association”, then…everyone refering to Slavomacedonians, must be talking of ethnic Macedonians speaking a Slav language.
The term was coined of course by Koromilas and Venizelos but what did they know?
Time for Greece to go away from the Venizelian dogma with regards the Balkans and those “Slavomacedonians” appearing left and right,all over in those telegrams send by Koromilas and Venizelos included in the 1940 edition of “O Ellhnikos Stratos kata tous Balkanikous Polemous,Tomos A”.
Who were those “Slavomakedonians”? maybe those Bulgarians mentioned in telegrams 637 and 638, the same ones maybe appearing on telegram # 1076 as………”Makedonikos stratos” ?

6. ICG and many other global organizations are abusing our kindness,shortcoming of unity and strong ignorance in many instances as well as the involmement of too many cooks in the kitchen and are transforming/considering them as weakness acting accordingly as if we were at fault!
Time for ELIAMEP as well as for Dr. Kofos to change course.
Time to claim our rights to our Pelagonia, to our people in there all the way to Krusovo, denying at the same time any association and/or ethnic Macedonism to mutts from all over Europe.

7. A strong point needs to be made with regards the local language, “Makedonika”,which as it was mentioned by Pavlos Melas was spoken by Hellenes, an idiom that it was Slav-appearing and not Slav language, most likely “ελληνικη παθουσα εξελιξιν εξ επηρειας πολλων περιπετειων” (Tsioulkas) having very little to do with the West-Bulgarian language in today’s FYROM.
In my ears Ion’s words are still sounding stronger than ever:
“Ισην καταπληξιν εμποιει η επιπολαια εστω εξετασις της λαλουμενης εν τη ελληνικη Μακεδονια διαλεκτου. Ειναι απορον πως εξακολουθη ολοκληρος ο Ελληνισμος ν’ αποκαλη αυτην Βουλγαρικην, πως μεχρι σημερον διακηρυττει οτι ο δηθεν βουλγαροφωνος ημων πληθυσμος απωλεσε καθ’ ολοκληριαν την γλωσσαν του και πως δεν ευρεθη εισετι ουδε εις λογιος Ελλην Σλαυομαθης οπως ν’ αποκαλυψη και διασαλπιση αρμοδιως ανα τον κοσμον την επικρατουσαν ολεθριαν πλανην.
Μακραν τουτου φοβουμαι μη αποδειχθη ημεραν τινα οτι ο Μεγας Αλεξανδρος εγειρομενος εκ του ταφου θα εννοη ευκολωτερον την δηθεν βουλγαρικην ταυτην διαλεκτον η οσον θα εννοη τα δηθεν ελληνικωτερα ιδιωματα του Κυπριου η και του Πελοποννησιου αγροτου.

ΙΩΝΟΣ ΔΡΑΓΟΥΜΗ
“ΤΑ ΤΕΤΡΑΔΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΙΛΙΝΤΕΝ”
ΣΕΛΙΣ ΚΣΤ’”

8. Get rid of Nimetz, he works for Soros.

9. I am pretty sure that a little of good will ELIAMEP and Dr. Kofos can do much better in the future meetings with the people in FYROM.
Just advice Mrs. Bakoyianni to stop speaking of a non existing Hellenic ethnic minority in FYROM.
Ekaterini Venizelou used to run in the Macedonian mountains,avoiding the Bulgarians, together with my grand-mother and her sister teaching the greek language back in the late 1800s in Resna,Monastiri and Prilapos.
Do you know why they were doing this my Dear Dr. kofos?
Because they KNEW that the people all the way up there were Hellenes.
Tell that to Dora, please.

Regards from Kalifornia
George Tsapanos