From: Chrys Pelegris <chrysp@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: H.N.I.N. - EDITION 1
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Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:35:50 GMT

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                                H.N.I.N
                  Hellenic News & Information Network

                       " Greek News from Abroad "
                  Edition 1 - Thursday December 10/92

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Article from the "Hellenic-Canadian Chronicles" - Wed November 25/92
Reprinted without permission.
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TORONTO MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL CREATE THEIR OWN FOREIGN POLICY BY PROMOTING
TERRITORIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GREECE

    A formal ceremony has just been concluded at Nathan Phillips square where
Canadians and Americans stemming from the Skopje area of former Yugoslavia
raised a 'flag' bearing the star of Alexander the Great's Hellenic dynasty,
which Greeks cherish as a symbol of Hellenic identity.
    Members of Toronto's Greek community and Canadians versed in Hellenic
culture, warned Toronto Mayor Rowlands about the usurpation of Hellenic
symbols and history by the group in question for the express purpose to lay
claim on Greek territory.  But the Mayor and city council ignored these
warnings.
    How wrong they were!  English speaking speakers during the ceremony
stressed that 'Macedonians', as members of this group were told to call
themselves since 1945, have no designs on Greek territory.  Yet, speakers
addressing the crowd in their local dialect had a different story to tell:
they called for raising the flag next year in Salonica, which is the capital
of Greece's largest geopolitical division known as Macedonia since the
dawn of history, and for annexing Greek cities as deep as Edessa.
    The celebrants even displayed maps showing one third of Greece as theirs.
And they talked of an oppressed 'Macedonian minority' in Greece.
The Mayor and city council had been warned that:
- this group derived the name 'Macedonians' in 1945 from communist leaders
seeking to promote communist imperialism in the Balkans
- that the United Nations reports on human rights consistently place Greece
and Canada in the same high order in terms of respect for human rights of
their citizens
- that Ottawa, Washington, and Brussels have not extended displomatic
recognition to any 'Republic of Macedonia'.
    It's true taht not a single Canadian politician showed up during the flag
raising ceremony.  But Mayor Rowlands handed our city the distinction of
being first in the civilized world to effectively promote cultural and
territorial aggression against a fellow NATO country, and offend in the process
all Canadians who see a local political body taking in its own hands the
write up of policy on external affars.
    These so called 'Macedonians' are wolves in sheep's clothing who took this
Mayor and city council for a ride.  We applaud Greek Canadians who, in this
trying time for their ethnic group, showed restraint by refraining from
activities which might inflame the situation.  But we call on all Canadians
to familiarize themselves with the disturbing trend set by the Toronto council,
and strive to keep our country free from arbitrary actions by politicians
which might jeopardize our status as one of the fairest countries of the world
when it comes to dealing with external affairs.

                             TORONTONIAS FOR TRUTH ON THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION.

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