Original sentence: (It should be noted that by "Macedonians", Simovski is referring to the Slavic-speaking ethnic group, which self-identifies as ethnic Macedonian, and not to ethnic Greeks residing in Macedonia, who also refer to themselves as "Macedonians" in a strictly regional sense)
Edited sentence: (It should be noted that by "Macedonians", Simovski is referring to the Slavic-speaking ethnic group, which self-identifies as ethnic Macedonian, and not to ethnic Greeks residing in Macedonia, who refer to themselves as "Macedonians" in a strictly regional sense)