Monday, September 22, 2014

Macedonian Foreign Ministry Raises Concerns over Ambassador Baily's Remarks

September 22, 2014, Monday

 
Macedonian Foreign Ministry Raises Concerns over Ambassador Baily's Remarks Macedonia's Forein Ministry. Photo: Radovan Vujovic

The Deputy US Ambassador to Macedonia was summoned at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today in order to hear the authority's worries.

The Macedonian Foreign Ministry expressed concerns because of the inappropriate designation made to the members of the Macedonian majority by the newly appointed US ambassador to Macedonia, Jess. L. Baily, who in his speech in front of the Committee of Foreign Relations with the American Senate on September 17, 2014, was referring to the ethnic Macedonians as "Slavs".

The use of such term puts the Macedonian identity to question and hurts the feelings of the Macedonian people. At the same time, the inappropriate denominations of the Macedonian people could have negative implications both on exterior and internal political plan.

- See more at: http://www.independent.mk/articles/9527/Macedonian+Foreign+Ministry+Raises+Concerns+over+Ambassador+Baily%27s+Remarks#sthash.OX2g6Pba.dpuf

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