Sorry I did not receive this question earlier. I was not born in Greece. Both of my parents, and their brothers and sisters and cousins were born in the "Province of Northern Greece" before Greece renamed it. Just in case you are interested, all of my ancestors come from the Kostur (Kastoria) region. I have visited Greece and spent time with my relatives. I have seen and felt the pressure tactics used by the Greeks government and people.

If Greece is a true democracy, why not allow individuals to identify themselves as they want. Is Greece afraid that there are many who will call themselves "Ethnic" and not "Geographic" Macedonians. This is a right guaranteed in Intenational Law. The Republic of Macedonia could not possibly have enough money to pay all the Macedonians who live in Greece to be their puppets and/or spies.

Greece should recognize its ethnic, linguistic, religious minorities. It should not claim that it is a nation of only Greeks who are Greek Orthodox. There are many Macedonians, Turks, Vlachs, and others who do not fit the "Greek" model.

It is also odd how this article does not make any reference to modern day FYROMian culture. Albeit young, one might ask why is modern day FYROMian culture forcefully being swept aside by Prime Minister Gruveski? This nationalist government is doing more to undermine the development of FYROM than he is doing to help develop it, a little food for thought perhaps.

Regardless of the weak and lacking factual arguments made in this article one point should be made, that no matter what attempts FYROM makes to try and prove its case they will have to eventually come to the negotiating table and solve this issue.

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To Andy Plukov: I would like to respectfully ask if you were born in Greece as well. Because from what you have written I can only interpret that you are not which then begs the question how do you know first hand the assimilation tactics used by the Greek government to deny the existence of (pseudo) ethnic Macedonians in Greece?

"In 1912-13, through two brutal regional wars, Macedonia was forcefully partitioned among Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. The Macedonians were subject to qualified genocide and many were driven from their land"

Where on any geographic map did FYROM exist during this time or for that fact on what historical map did FYROM exist? The modern statehood of FYROM did not come into being until 1991. The Kingdom/city-state of Macedonia has little if anything to do with the modern state of FYROM perhaps a comparison of apples to oranges is being done here, not to sure.