Athens, 29 September 2009

In answer to a journalist’s question regarding the content of the new Encyclopedia of the Skopje Academy of Arts and Sciences financed by FYROM’s government, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mr. G. Delavekouras stated the following:

“This new attempt, this new tool for counterfeiting history by the government of FYROM is no surprise. After all, the work of the Skopje Academy is familiar to us.

The government of Mr. Gruevski is systematically promoting bigotry and nationalism. Mr. Gruevski is attempting to reinforce his profile on the domestic political stage by inventing enemies and aggravating his country’s relations with its neighbours.

FYROM’s Prime Minister is not ignorant of, but rather simply indifferent to, the basic criterion for FYROM’s progress towards accession to the EU, the criterion of good neighbourly relations. In this manner, he is moving his country’s people away from their Euro-atlantic future and creating conditions of regional instability.”