IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 356 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Former Yugo-
slav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) should stop the utilization of 
materials that violate provisions of the United Nations-brokered Interim 
Agreement between the 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 the FYROM. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 1, 2007 
Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. GALLEGLY, and 
Mr. BILIRAKIS) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) 
should stop the utilization of materials that violate provi-
sions of the United Nations-brokered Interim Agreement 
between the FYROM and Greece regarding ‘‘hostile ac-
tivities 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 the FYROM. 
Whereas on April 8, 1993, the United Nations General As-
sembly admitted as a member the Former Yugoslav Re-
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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 re-
solved to maintain peaceful relations between Greece and 
the FYROM; 
Whereas on September 13, 1995, Greece and the 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 the FYROM from utilizing, since its 
admittance to the United Nations in 1993, what the Ac-
cord calls, ‘‘propaganda’’, including in school textbooks; 
Whereas a television report in recent years showed students 
in a state-run school in the FYROM still being taught 
that parts of Greece, including Greek Macedonia, are 
rightfully part of the 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’’ ex-
tends 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 at-
tempts to eliminate challenges regarding ‘‘historic and 
cultural patrimony’’, the Government of FYROM recently 
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