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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 300 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Former Yugoslav Republic of 

Macedonia (FYROM) should stop the utilization of materials that violate 

provisions of the United Nations-brokered Interim Agreement between 

FYROM and Greece regarding ‘‘hostile activities or propaganda’’ and 

should work with the United Nations and Greece to achieve longstanding 

United States and United Nations policy goals of finding a mutuallyacceptable official name for FYROM. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

AUGUST 3, 2007 

Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Ms. SNOWE, and Mr. OBAMA) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Former Yugoslav 

Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) should stop the utilization of materials that violate provisions of the United 

Nations-brokered Interim Agreement between FYROM 

and Greece regarding ‘‘hostile activities or propaganda’’ 

and should work with the United Nations and Greece 

to achieve longstanding United States and United Nations policy goals of finding a mutually-acceptable official 

name for FYROM. 

Whereas, on April 8, 1993, the United Nations General Assembly admitted as a member the Former Yugoslav ReVerDate Aug 31 2005 03:05 Aug 06, 2007 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR300.IS SR300

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public of Macedonia (FYROM), under the name the 

‘‘Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’’; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 817 

(1993) states that the dispute over the name must be resolved to maintain peaceful relations between Greece and 

FYROM; 

Whereas, on September 13, 1995, Greece and FYROM 

signed a United Nations-brokered Interim Accord that, 

among other things, commits them to not ‘‘support 

claims to any part of the territory of the other party or 

claims for a change of their existing frontiers’’; 

Whereas a pre-eminent goal of the United Nations Interim 

Accord was to stop FYROM from utilizing, since its admittance to the United Nations in 1993, what the Accord 

calls ‘‘propaganda’’, including in school textbooks; 

Whereas a television report in recent years showed students 

in a state-run school in FYROM still being taught that 

parts of Greece, including Greek Macedonia, are rightfully part of FYROM; 

Whereas some textbooks, including the Military Academy 

textbook published in 2004 by the Military Academy 

‘‘General Mihailo Apostolski’’ in the FYROM capital city, 

contain maps showing that a ‘‘Greater Macedonia’’ extends many miles south into Greece to Mount Olympus 

and miles east to Mount Pirin in Bulgaria; 

Whereas, in direct contradiction of the spirit of the United 

Nations Interim Accord’s section ‘‘A’’, entitled ‘‘Friendly 

Relations and Confidence Building Measures’’, which attempts to eliminate challenges regarding ‘‘historic and 

cultural patrimony’’, the Government of FYROM recently 


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renamed the capital city’s international airport ‘‘Alexander the Great Airport’’; 

Whereas the aforementioned acts constitute a breach of 

FYROM’s international obligations deriving from the 

spirit of the United Nations Interim Accord, which provide that FYROM should abstain from any form of 

‘‘propaganda’’ against Greece’s historical or cultural heritage; 

Whereas such acts are not compatible with Article 10 of the 

United Nations Interim Accord, which calls for ‘‘improving understanding and good neighbourly relations’’, as 

well as with European standards and values endorsed by 

European Union member-states; and 

Whereas this information, like that exposed in the media report and elsewhere, being used contrary to the United 

Nations Interim Accord instills hostility and a rationale 

for irredentism in portions of the population of FYROM 

toward Greece and the history of Greece: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) urges the Former Yugoslav Republic of 

3 Macedonia (FYROM) to observe its obligations 

4 under Article 7 of the 1995 United Nations-brokered 

5 Interim Accord, which directs the parties to 

6 ‘‘promptly take effective measures to prohibit hostile 

7 activities or propaganda by state-controlled agencies 

8 and to discourage acts by private entities likely to 

9 incite violence, hatred or hostility’’ and review the 

10 contents of textbooks, maps, and teaching aids to 


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1 ensure that such tools are stating accurate informa2 tion; and 

3 (2) urges FYROM to work with Greece within 

4 the framework of the United Nations process to 

5 achieve longstanding United States and United Na6 tions policy goals by reaching a mutually-acceptable 

7 official name for FYROM. 

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