tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39064808141288131072024-03-13T13:54:12.418+11:00Team UzunovTEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-84077910172592275922019-08-21T15:17:00.002+10:002019-08-21T15:54:06.166+10:00GERMANY NO COMMENT ON "ANTI NAZI" BAN ON VISITING ALBANIAN NATIONALISTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mr Steve Alter, a spokesman for the German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, issued the following statement:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;">"thank you for your questions. As one of the press spokespersons of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community I can inform you, that we generally do not comment any particular cases with respect to the personal data protection regulations."</span><span style="background-color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Section 130 of the German Criminal Code (<a href="https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/en/legislation/deu/german_criminal_code/special_part_-_chapter_seven/section_130/section_130.html?fbclid=IwAR27SkBandb_tvCQQG__Rh5FQs0xvfgLIXUZg1YBj8tNOYiLD-4hxCIIoHA">link</a>) bans the glorification of National Socialism (Nazism). In 1993 controversial British author and Holocaust denier David Irving was banned from entering Germany. In 2012 that ban was overturned. Irving did, however, do jail time in Austria for Holocaust denial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Question 1:</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;"> <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Will the Federal Republic of Germany's Interior Ministry be banning politicians from the ultra Albanian nationalist party DUI (BDI-) such as leader Ali Ahmeti, Bujar Osmani who is Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister, Nevzat Bejta, Teuta Arifi, Artan Grubi and Talat Xhaferi who is Macedonia Parliament Speaker - from entering German sovereign territory in potential breach of German Criminal Code Section 130 which forbids the glorification and justifying of National Socialism [Nazism]?</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">-The DUI party has a neo-Nazi ideology and venerates World War II Albanian Nazi collaborators such as Xhem Hasa Gostivari. Nevzat Bejta has gone to the extreme of building a statue to Xhem Hasa Gostivari in Macedonia as well as a second statue to another Albanian Nazi collaborator Aqif Krosi Recani. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">- The Federal Republic of Germany has in the past prosecuted individuals for breaching Section 130 as well as barring them entry into Germany for issues ranging from Holocaust denial to the glorification of Nazism.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The subject of Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia and the extremist ideology which underpins them remains a touchy for the West, especially Germany, the US, and the EU as a whole as they have all endorsed the very people who have built these statues. Last year the German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a media conference in Skopje, Macedonia would not take a question on Albanian Nazi statues.</span><br />
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<b>Previous story - DUI DOWN UNDER - </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Australia's Home Affairs Department has refused to comment on whether six ethnic Albanian nationalist politicians from Macedonia are prohibited from entering Australia. They belong to the DUI (BDI) party which has supported the building of controversial WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Department does not comment on individual cases," a Home Affairs media spokesperson said. And would not elaborate further.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The six<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ali Ahmeti, the leader of DUI, Nevzat Bejta, Bujar Osmani, Deputy Prime Minister in the Zaev coalition government of Macedonia, Artan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Grubi, Teuta Arifi<span class="apple-converted-space">, </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Talat Xhaferi, the Parliamentary Speaker elected under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>controversial<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>circumstances<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in April 2017 which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>precipitated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a riot in the Macedonian Assembly. -more on DUI's extremist ideology at these links <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/golden-dui-the-axis-of-silence/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/dutch-silence-over-besa-links/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi-statues/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Australian<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>authorities<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have the power to deny an entry visa to individuals it regards as holding extremist views. Holocaust denier David Irving and a variety of US rappers and a host others have been barred in the past - see <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/from-violent-misogynists-to-holocaust-deniers-who-has-been-denied-an-australian-visa-20160202-gmjico.html">link</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2001 the Kosovo Liberation Army’s offshoot, the National Liberation Army led by Ali Ahmeti, invaded Macedonia to take territory for a Greater Albania – when this plan stalled and the terrorists – initially damned by the West - were overnight transformed into<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aggrieved<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> civil rights activists.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ahmeti and his crew including NLA field commanders became the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>genesis<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> of DUI (BDI) as they swapped their weapons and combat fatigues for MP's business suits. Later joined by other commanders such as Nevzat Bejta and Talat Xhaferi. <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bejta<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> as the Mayor of the town of Gostivar and Macedonian government minister built a statue in 2006 to a notorious World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa Gostovari who had killed Macedonians and Albanians opposed to fascism during the War. He followed that up with a second Nazi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>collaborator<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> statue in 2013. Ahmeti has gone on public record that one of his motivations for starting the 2001 war was to ethnically cleanse Macedonians in the west of the country where a large number of Albanians live. Artan Grubi only recently repeated those extremist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sentiments. This ideology was shared by Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa Gostivari. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because DUI is regarded as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>pro-US<span class="apple-converted-space"></span>, in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>fact<span class="apple-converted-space"></span>, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>political<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> client which ended up supporting changing Macedonia's name in 2018, the Western media refuse to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>scrutinise<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> let alone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>criticise<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>neo-nazi<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> leanings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>In 2008 courtesy of an amnesty law introduced by the Macedonian government led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski who needed to keep coalition partner Ahmeti onside<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> and,<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> no doubt<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>strong-armed<span class="apple-converted-space"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"></span> by the US in the background, no<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>prosecutions<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> were initiated against the NLA. So Ahmeti who started a war, killed people and set off a chain of evidence that led to other killings, got off<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>scot-free<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> whilst a Macedonian Police reservist Johan Tarculovski did time for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>war crimes<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> handed down by the International Tribunal at the Hague. It struck many Macedonians as blatantly unfair and selective justice<span class="apple-converted-space">, </span>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>say the least. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">The interesting thing is a European Court of Human Rights ruling has laid down that war crimes cannot be “pardoned” or “amnestied” yet no Macedonian court is willing to launch an indictment of Ahmeti or any of the NLA leaders in Macedonia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">A number of NLA members ended up on various international and US government blacklists relating to terrorism, such as Xhevat Ademi (pictured above) who in 2012 managed to somehow convince or someone else either the Gruevski government or the US behind the scenes managed to convince – the Australian government to allow him entry into Australia as a member of a Macedonian<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Parliamentary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>delegation led by the then Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski, a VMRO-DPMNE member.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">When word reached local community leaders in Australia, it created enormous outrage. Mr Igor A. Aleksandrov (pictured above) the President now the CEO of the Macedonian Orthodox Community, of Australia, lobbied Australian politicians to ignore Ademi, which they did. Not one Australian State or Federal MP met with Ademi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Australian Parliament aware that Mr Ademi is a key leader of a extremist movement seeking the creation of an ethnically “cleansed” Greater Albania, by way of terrorist violence or threats of terrorist violence? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Parliament aware that Mr Ademi was a leader of the racist “National Liberation Army” (NLA), which conducted unprovoked terrorist violence against Macedonian civilian, police and military targets in 2001, and which was described by NATO Secretary-General George Robertson as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">“a bunch of murderous thugs whose objective is to destroy a democratic Macedonia and who are using civilians as human shields” in a cynical bid to provoke “another Balkan bloodbath”?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Parliament aware that Mr Ademi has been blacklisted under the US President’s Executive Order 13219, Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Balkans, since June 26 2001?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> The object of the order was to deal with the threat constituted by “the actions of persons engaged in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting extremist violence in the Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region.” This Order was most recently continued by US President Barrack Obama on June 23 2011, and is still current, with Mr Ademi’s name still on the list.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We understand that the Macedonian Government largely appeased Mr Ademi’s terrorist movement with the “Ohrid Framework Agreement” of 13 August 2001, by caving in to extremist demands for ethnic segregation and privileged positions in all levels of Government and the public service. However, the Macedonian Australian community almost unanimously condemned that agreement as being racially discriminatory, and as constituting a reward for </span><span lang="EN-US">t</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">errorism that is bound to encourage further use of violence for political ends, including ethnic cleansing and territorial secession. Our position was consistent with general Australian values of equality before the law, regardless of ethnicity or religion, and with generally consistent Australian policy that terrorist violence must never be tolerated, let alone rewarded.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On August 14, 2001, Mr Ademi was quoted as saying that the Ohrid Framework “agreement was merely an interim solution”,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>hinting at more separatist violence in future, toward his goal of an ethnically pure Greater Albania. Mr Ademi’s extremist movement has since obtained further inequitable and unjust concessions from the Macedonian Government by sporadic violence and threats of renewed terrorist attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Ademi has a reputation as a key fundraiser for his extremist movement, including fundraising from abroad. Given that he has never repented, apologized or been held accountable for his leadership of extremist violence in the past, it would be reasonable to suspect that he would use his Australian visit to incite extremism among the Australian Albanian community, while at the same time gaining legitimacy for his extremist movement by being formally received and honored by Australian politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Over the past four days, there has been growing discontent among the Macedonian Australian community about the fact that Mr Ademi has not only been allowed into the country, but is being received as an honored guest by the Australian Parliament and Australian officials. We suspect that the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament has included Mr Ademi in the delegation under duress, in view of his reputation for pursuing political aims by violence or threats of violence. However, that is no excuse for a person blacklisted by the USA for his extremist activity to be received as an official guest of Australia, where we have broad consensus that violent extremists must never be appeased and we even send our soldiers to risk their lives fighting terrorism abroad, as part of a US-led alliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We hereby ask you to consider urgent deportation of Mr Ademi from Australia and to ensure that he is excluded from any further meetings or functions with Australian officials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We have no objections to any Australian officials receiving the remainder of the delegation led by the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, Mr Trajko Veljanovski. In fact, we applaud the efforts towards improved relations between Australia and the Republic of Macedonia. However, we encourage Australian officials to show full respect for the right to self-determination and self-identification of the Macedonian people, by refraining from the use of unwelcome references such as “Former Yugoslav Republic” of Macedonia or “FYROM”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Australia's Home Affairs Department has refused to comment on whether six ethnic Albanian nationalist politicians from Macedonia are prohibited from entering Australia. They belong to the DUI (BDI) party which has supported the building of controversial WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The six<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ali Ahmeti, the leader of DUI, Nevzat Bejta, Bujar Osmani, Deputy Prime Minister in the Zaev coalition government of Macedonia, Artan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Grubi, Teuta Arifi<span class="apple-converted-space">, </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Talat Xhaferi, the Parliamentary Speaker elected under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>controversial<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>circumstances<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in April 2017 which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>precipitated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a riot in the Macedonian Assembly. -more on DUI's extremist ideology at these links <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/golden-dui-the-axis-of-silence/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/dutch-silence-over-besa-links/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi-statues/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Australian<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>authorities<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have the power to deny an entry visa to individuals it regards as holding extremist views. Holocaust denier David Irving and a variety of US rappers and a host others have been barred in the past - see <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/from-violent-misogynists-to-holocaust-deniers-who-has-been-denied-an-australian-visa-20160202-gmjico.html">link</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2001 the Kosovo Liberation Army’s offshoot, the National Liberation Army led by Ali Ahmeti, invaded Macedonia to take territory for a Greater Albania – when this plan stalled and the terrorists – initially damned by the West - were overnight transformed into<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aggrieved<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> civil rights activists.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ahmeti and his crew including NLA field commanders became the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>genesis<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> of DUI (BDI) as they swapped their weapons and combat fatigues for MP's business suits. Later joined by other commanders such as Nevzat Bejta and Talat Xhaferi. <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bejta<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> as the Mayor of the town of Gostivar and Macedonian government minister built a statue in 2006 to a notorious World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa Gostovari who had killed Macedonians and Albanians opposed to fascism during the War. He followed that up with a second Nazi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>collaborator<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> statue in 2013. Ahmeti has gone on public record that one of his motivations for starting the 2001 war was to ethnically cleanse Macedonians in the west of the country where a large number of Albanians live. Artan Grubi only recently repeated those extremist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sentiments. This ideology was shared by Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa Gostivari. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because DUI is regarded as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>pro-US<span class="apple-converted-space"></span>, in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>fact<span class="apple-converted-space"></span>, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>political<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> client which ended up supporting changing Macedonia's name in 2018, the Western media refuse to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>scrutinise<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> let alone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>criticise<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>neo-nazi<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> leanings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>In 2008 courtesy of an amnesty law introduced by the Macedonian government led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski who needed to keep coalition partner Ahmeti onside<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> and,<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> no doubt<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>strong-armed<span class="apple-converted-space"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"></span> by the US in the background, no<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>prosecutions<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> were initiated against the NLA. So Ahmeti who started a war, killed people and set off a chain of evidence that led to other killings, got off<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>scot-free<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> whilst a Macedonian Police reservist Johan Tarculovski did time for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>war crimes<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> handed down by the International Tribunal at the Hague. It struck many Macedonians as blatantly unfair and selective justice<span class="apple-converted-space">, </span>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>say the least. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">A number of NLA members ended up on various international and US government blacklists relating to terrorism, such as Xhevat Ademi (pictured above) who in 2012 managed to somehow convince or someone else either the Gruevski government or the US behind the scenes managed to convince – the Australian government to allow him entry into Australia as a member of a Macedonian<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Parliamentary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>delegation led by the then Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski, a VMRO-DPMNE member.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">When word reached local community leaders in Australia, it created enormous outrage. Mr Igor A. Aleksandrov (pictured above) the President now the CEO of the Macedonian Orthodox Community, of Australia, lobbied Australian politicians to ignore Ademi, which they did. Not one Australian State or Federal MP met with Ademi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">It has come to our attention that the Australian Parliament is currently hosting a delegation of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, which includes Djevat (Xhevat) Ademi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Australian Parliament aware that Mr Ademi is a key leader of a extremist movement seeking the creation of an ethnically “cleansed” Greater Albania, by way of terrorist violence or threats of terrorist violence? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Parliament aware that Mr Ademi was a leader of the racist “National Liberation Army” (NLA), which conducted unprovoked terrorist violence against Macedonian civilian, police and military targets in 2001, and which was described by NATO Secretary-General George Robertson as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">“a bunch of murderous thugs whose objective is to destroy a democratic Macedonia and who are using civilians as human shields” in a cynical bid to provoke “another Balkan bloodbath”?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is the Parliament aware that Mr Ademi has been blacklisted under the US President’s Executive Order 13219, Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Balkans, since June 26 2001?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> The object of the order was to deal with the threat constituted by “the actions of persons engaged in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting extremist violence in the Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region.” This Order was most recently continued by US President Barrack Obama on June 23 2011, and is still current, with Mr Ademi’s name still on the list.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We understand that the Macedonian Government largely appeased Mr Ademi’s terrorist movement with the “Ohrid Framework Agreement” of 13 August 2001, by caving in to extremist demands for ethnic segregation and privileged positions in all levels of Government and the public service. However, the Macedonian Australian community almost unanimously condemned that agreement as being racially discriminatory, and as constituting a reward for </span><span lang="EN-US">t</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">errorism that is bound to encourage further use of violence for political ends, including ethnic cleansing and territorial secession. Our position was consistent with general Australian values of equality before the law, regardless of ethnicity or religion, and with generally consistent Australian policy that terrorist violence must never be tolerated, let alone rewarded.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On August 14, 2001, Mr Ademi was quoted as saying that the Ohrid Framework “agreement was merely an interim solution”,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>hinting at more separatist violence in future, toward his goal of an ethnically pure Greater Albania. Mr Ademi’s extremist movement has since obtained further inequitable and unjust concessions from the Macedonian Government by sporadic violence and threats of renewed terrorist attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Ademi has a reputation as a key fundraiser for his extremist movement, including fundraising from abroad. Given that he has never repented, apologized or been held accountable for his leadership of extremist violence in the past, it would be reasonable to suspect that he would use his Australian visit to incite extremism among the Australian Albanian community, while at the same time gaining legitimacy for his extremist movement by being formally received and honored by Australian politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Over the past four days, there has been growing discontent among the Macedonian Australian community about the fact that Mr Ademi has not only been allowed into the country, but is being received as an honored guest by the Australian Parliament and Australian officials. We suspect that the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament has included Mr Ademi in the delegation under duress, in view of his reputation for pursuing political aims by violence or threats of violence. However, that is no excuse for a person blacklisted by the USA for his extremist activity to be received as an official guest of Australia, where we have broad consensus that violent extremists must never be appeased and we even send our soldiers to risk their lives fighting terrorism abroad, as part of a US-led alliance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We hereby ask you to consider urgent deportation of Mr Ademi from Australia and to ensure that he is excluded from any further meetings or functions with Australian officials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">We have no objections to any Australian officials receiving the remainder of the delegation led by the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, Mr Trajko Veljanovski. In fact, we applaud the efforts towards improved relations between Australia and the Republic of Macedonia. However, we encourage Australian officials to show full respect for the right to self-determination and self-identification of the Macedonian people, by refraining from the use of unwelcome references such as “Former Yugoslav Republic” of Macedonia or “FYROM”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Picture caption: Senior ranking US State Department official Phillip T. Reeker (left) - next to him is Bujar Osmani, Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia and a member of the Albanian nationalist party DUI which has supported the building of controversial World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia after the 2001 ethnic Albanian war in that country.</b><br />
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The man who many Macedonians see as one of the chief architects of changing Macedonia's name and erasing Macedonian identity, the Svengali-like Phillip T. Reeker is about to arrive in Macedonia just in time to head off a number of difficulties the pro-US Zaev government is facing such as a brewing corruption scandal involving extortion and the sudden and unexplained resignation of Katica Janeva, chief of the much-vaunted Special Prosecturors Office (SJO), set up under Western pressure.<br />
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Reeker served a tour of duty as US Ambassador to Macedonia (2008-11) and laid the groundwork for name change of the country by lowering just enough Greek and Bulgarian opposition to Macedonia joining NATO - put into effect by another controversial US Ambassador Jess Baily (2014-19) via the Prespa <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">Agreement</a> and the so-called Good Neighbourly <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/07/bulgarian-agreement-dagger-at.html">Agreement </a>between Macedonia and Bulgaria. The US maintains it had had nothing to do with it. But the evidence - as outlined extensively by both TEAM Uzunov blog and Alternate Comms <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/unmasking-oti/">website</a> - reveals a totally different picture. see links <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/the-gruevski-gambit/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/the-baily-ultimatum-part-4-spooky-shenanigans/">here</a><br />
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TEAM UZUNOV blog has sent Mr Reeker a list of media questions in relation to his upcoming visit to Macedonia. Going by past experiences the likelihood of a response is next to zero. Trying to get the US to comment over its support of Albanian Neo-Nazi leaders in Macedonia is deliberately avoided. There is simply no attempt to dismiss or to put it to rest. That's odd. It strongly suggests deliberate avoidance of the issue.<br />
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<b>"FAKE NEWS?" </b><br />
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In trying to hose down the damage from the brewing Katica Janeva scandal - in reality, close down investigative journalists from investigating - Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has proposed what some say are <a href="https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/zaev-says-the-government-is-working-on-an-action-plan-that-may-lead-to-censorship/">draconian</a> laws to combat "fake news." - more on Katica Janeva <a href="https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/two-spo-prosecutors-offered-to-testify-about-the-katica-janeva-scandal/">here</a> and <a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2019/07/23/north-macedonia-special-prosecutor-denies-misuse-of-office/">here </a><br />
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You might recall PM Zaev was the subject of a prank call by Russian comedians passing themselves off as Ukrainian President Poroshenko and NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/zoki-zaev-poroshenko-chocolate-factory.html">here</a><br />
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<b>SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER</b><br />
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Two Macedonian journalists, Goran Momirovski, the elder statesman of Macedonian journalism, and Ljupco Zlatev a younger reporter were summoned to the Interior Ministry, which runs the police and intelligence service, for an "interview" over their stories relating to corruption scandals. It's nothing more than old fashioned intimidation by those in power. see link <a href="https://lider.com.mk/makedonija/vlasta-prodolzuva-so-pritisok-kon-novinarite-vo-mvr-na-raspit-i-goran-momirovski/?fbclid=IwAR2G4vaChQ1QQhw71pSSDv8EM_1hr57sZki4x7WAtkOZt5BcqtZ6e4R1t6M">here</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ekonomskilider/videos/466013240897999/?__xts__[0]=68.ARBzMZriu40W4qXwc7vkIjjKXo4L_B3gPhDHtcN-mS6BVW8qo24B---HDiua6g6lf13EjmXoyVZDbsgzXnTOdwg-iOhv6sQ-r3VfcQ1Ylp3WH1CGGEurf73tvDgRS6RqtrvxycBQeXMAB0c0-Hyin51M2Kgx3DKkoDDYPFo5Niq6lf3ge35_kzCE-zJYXN_YaeP2VXrKSeIdDHHKWh2VWuEkYeq4Fj12ecyT2idqMu8YESEqRk03lgRWZ6_9g2RxUCiIwqt7vAc9Q3Uy_1VHoMfMMa8QVekmB1TxAU0rRcDPrnc0roasvx0WhDIQhcNbzvXIrwLZb3jhw8BhiLjBn45NXt_FO6f05_iOrg&__tn__=H-R">here</a> and <a href="https://expres.mk/mvr-ja-istrazhuva-aferata-rashkovski-povekje-novinari-povikani-vo-policija/?fbclid=IwAR3wPMfXLScpaE4sCpUGci8e3Xs3j8LqtNnZ6bv8_XtFB3QCs8e3kBqs8Ig">here</a><br />
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This is the environment in which Mr Reeker will find himself when he lands in Macedonia sometime soon. But it's an environment he helped to create and now ironically rushing in as the White Knight to save the day. see link <a href="https://nezavisen.mk/is-north-macedonia-heading-to-political-crisis/?lang=en">here</a><br />
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A journalist asking a direct question and expecting an answer - and then running the answer in full - cannot in any way be construed or regarded as "fake news" and it explains why the US avoids uttering a single word about WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statues or any other sensitive topic as you will see below:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. Why have you and the US remained silent over the World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues built in Macedonia post-2001 war by Albanian nationalist Nevzat Bejta? One statue is to a Xhem Hasa Gostivari, who according to British wartime eyewitness accounts, was a proven Nazi collaborator.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In comparison the US Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia immediately condemned a Croatian far-right extremist march through the Croatian capital in 2017. Why the US silence over WWII Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. Did you have any role in writing, drafting or assisting in writing the controversial Prespa Agreement which erases Macedonian identity? If called upon would you testify in front of the US Congress about any role or non role you had in the Prespa Agreement?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. The pro-US Zaev-Ahmeti coalition government in Macedonia has been hit with a number of large corruption scandals. The Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva has unexpectedly resigned. Do you wish to comment over why she would have resigned if she has received enormous backing from the US, EU to combat corruption in Macedonia?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5. Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski and Macedonia's Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska, of Serb background, were once staunch Slobodan Milosevic and Serb-Yugoslavist supporters who were anti-West and anti-US up to the year 2000 when the Milosevic regime fell. Mr Pendarovski was in the early 1990s a counterintelligence officer in Macedonia's Interior Ministry. A number of declassified CIA reports and a US army report have revealed the massive scale of UN sanctions-busting in Macedonia in support of the Milosevic regime which would have required the complicity of the Interior Ministry which runs the police, border guards and intelligence.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why does the US support Mr Pendarovski and Ms Sekerinska? Does this reveal a Machiavellian or cynical side to US foreign policy in Macedonia which has more to do with US strategic interests rather than morality or principle?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6. Bulgaria has waged blackmail and bullying in order to get Macedonia to surrender its history and in return receive Bulgarian support for EU admission. The Bulgarian Defence Minister, Mr Kressimir Karakachanov, an extremist, claims that in 1941 Bulgaria "liberated" Macedonia. This provocative statement is deliberately contrary to the facts and is an indirect and clever form of Holocaust denial. Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany and as a reward was allowed to occupy Macedonia, and in return assisted in the round-up of Jews in Macedonia, sending them to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. You and the US have remained silent over this behaviour from extremist Bulgarian politicians such as Mr Karakachanov. Could you explain why you have been silent, considering your former role in Holocaust Issues in the US State Department?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7. A 2008 wikileaks <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/the-gruevski-gambit/">cable</a> reveals you as then US Ambassador to Macedonia asking that Mr Nikola Dimitrov, now Macedonia's Foreign Minister, be protected as a confidential source for the US. To the average Macedonian reader that has a kind of sinister or negative inference about Mr Dimitrov's behaviour towards his own country, Macedonia. Some would see that as leaking sensitive information to a foreign power, in this case, the US. As you are well aware the issue of foreign interference of any kind, such as allegations levelled against US President Trump and his links to Russian President Putin has created great consternation.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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France's Ambassador to Macedonia, Charles Thimonier, haughty and controversial in his own right, has despite having previous knowledge about a controversial ethnic Albanian nationalist politician Nevzat Bejta who has built a number of World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia, still brazenly met with him recently.<br />
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Mr Thimonier (centre) is photographed with Bejta (on the right of the photo) having friendly conversations over drinks recently. This was posted on the French Embassy social media page.<br />
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Mr Thimonier was contacted by TEAM UZUNOV blog in 2018 over the WWII Albanian Nazi collaborator statues built in Macedonia by Albanian nationalist politician Nevzat Bejta. Mr Thimonier after six weeks of receiving our media query responded that now was not the time to answer. - see link to story <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/06/french-ambassador-says-non-comment-for.html">here </a><br />
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Mr Nevzat Bejta has built two World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia during his tenure as the Mayor of Gostivar, a predominately ethnic Albanian town in the west of Macedonia.<br />
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One of the statues is to Xhem Hasa Gostivari, who according to British wartime accounts, was a proven Nazi collaborator in Macedonia and Albanian during World War II. see <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2019/01/golden-dui-axis-of-silence.html">link</a> for more on Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">DFAT would not comment if Mr Wade discussed topics, such as the controversial Prespa <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">Agreement</a> signed with Greece which led to Macedonia changing its name, WWII Albanian Nazi collaborator <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/golden-dui-the-axis-of-silence/">statues</a> built in Macedonia, Bulgarian inspired Holocaust <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2019/06/bulgarian-blackmail-history-horse.html">denial</a> and convicted Australian-Albanian terrorist Sevdet Besim, with Macedonian officials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TEAM UZUNOV blog received a tip about Mr Wade's visit and contacted the Australian Embassy in Belgrade on 7 June 2019 and received a response about six weeks later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Australian Federal Police (AFP) together with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) run counter-terrorism operations in Australia. ASIO doesn't take part in any physical raids or arrests but supplies the relevant intelligence usually obtained by telephone and/or internet intercepts or informers. Australia swaps information with other countries on intelligence and terrorism matters, including Macedonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Unfortunately, we cannot answer that question for you. <span class="textexposedshow">In no circumstances does the AFP comment on the exchange of intelligence or on intelligence requests from overseas (or even domestic) police. The reason is that talking about such exchanges has the potential to compromise activities being undertaken by policing partners. If they want to confirm they have asked us for information, that’s fine. But we won’t confirm or deny it."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Not a week has passed since Macedonia PM Zoran Zaev became the latest victim of two nefarious Russian phone pranksters, and the farce is only compounding on itself- making Zaev, and by extension ‘North’ Macedonia the laughingstock of the diplomatic world. The government is stumbling to contain the damage as Zaev continues to contradict himself while being forced to apologise to leaders around the region he had gossiped about over the ‘hot’ line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The audio comprises almost an hour of cringe-inducing admissions of Zaev’s personal opinions on burning international issues, plus a faint whiff of Zaev considering corrupt practices- not to mention him giving out the private phone numbers of US diplomat A. Wess Mitchell.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Quite predictably, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE has enjoyed having a go at Zaev all week as more details emerge of the premier was willingly duped into thinking he was talking with NATO head honcho and former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko by infamous impersonators ‘Leksus’ and Vovan,’ who have also pranked the likes of Macron, Boris Johnson and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The phrase ‘Western puppet’ is arguably overused, but the case of Zoran Zaev’s conversations with the faux Poroshenko and Stoltenberg reveal that Zaev has passed his course in this regard with flying colours. When he was just an opposition figurehead cursing the Gruevski government, the man could barely put a coherent sentence together. But just listen to him now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">As is widely known, former Ukrainian president Poroshenko made his fortune before politics in the chocolates industry. At one point in the conversation the fake Poroshenko offers to ‘sweeten the deal’ by hinting that he might be willing to invest in a new chocolate factory in Macedonia, to which Zaev agrees, whether or not this would be a realistic investment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Even more bizarrely, the phony Ukrainian also disclosed to Zaev that his people had a bit of ancient Macededonian blood in them, putting the question of ‘Macedonian kinship’ between Ukraine and Macedonia back to the days of Aleksandar the Great, in what has to be a first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"> Even the normally pro-Zaev Telma TV couldn’t help but note the topic, with the title of its lead article being “Zaev with the Fake Poroshenko the Macedonian talked about chocolates and politics” - see <a href="https://telma.com.mk/zaev-so-lazhniot-piter-poroshenko-makedonski-zboruvale-i-za-chokoladi-i-za-politika/">link</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Zoran Zaev has the dubious distinction of being the only Macedonian premier to have been pardoned by two different presidents (SDSM’s Branko Crvenkovski, over a corruption charge during the former VMRO-DPMNE government’s rule, and Gjorge Ivanov, during his mass pardons of politicians in April 2016 preceding the ‘Colourful Revolution’). Zaev has consistently been accused, rightly or wrongly, of corruption involving his family’s extensive business holdings in his native Strumica region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">So it is particularly cringe-inducing to hear Zaev’s reaction to the fake Ukrainian president’s hint that he can get Zaev a ‘discount’ on a bribe to the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul. ‘Poroshenko’ intimates that he had to pay the patriarch 150,000 euros to get the freshly-minted ‘Ukrainian Orthodox Church’ recognised by the symbolic leader of the world’s Orthodox faithful- a move that infuriated the Russian church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">In the taped conversation, the prankster repeatedly states that he can use his own personal connection with Bartholomew to get ‘autocephaly’ for the Macedonian Orthodox Church, to which Zaev readily agrees. Worse, the prankster president of Ukraine tells Zaev directly that this will require a bribe for the patriarch… and particularly, in cash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">To which Zaev unflinchingly replies: “in cash… normally.” This kind of answers only strengthens the case for those who suspect Zaev of having corrupt tendencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">These kinds of shocking statements gave the opposition VMRO-DPMNE plenty of material to attack Zaev with. According to opserver.mk’s quotation from a party spokesman, “<span class="tlid-translation">Zoran Zaev should immediately resign. With the last international scandal Zoran Zaev shamed Macedonia. The justification for the scandalous disclosure of state secrets and the acceptance to pay a bribe to the patriarch shows how inexplicable and criminal Zaev and the team around him are.” see<a href="https://opserver.mk/politika/vmro-dpmne-zoran-zaev-treba-vednash-da-si-podnese-ostavka/"> link</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="tlid-translation"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Nevertheless, since Monday Zaev has stubbornly refused all calls to resign, and continuous to attack all of his critics for his own poor decision. But the situation has only gotten worse as VMRO-DPMNE mouthpiece Republika has recently interviewed the pransters, who expressed bewilderment at Zaev’s lack of common sense. see <a href="https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/russian-comedian-responds-to-zaev-its-not-a-matter-of-upgrading-the-phone-but-the-brain/">link</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Th news outlet also published phone images showing that, in additont the three released phone conversations, Zoran Zaev also sent several photos of himself with world leaders to the comedians. He apparently used the common WhatsApp phone app rather than any secure lines that normal heads of state would use. Zaev’s CIA handlers obviously failed to finish his training course; the irony is especially thick sinze it was Zaev himself who rocketed to power after using wiretapped ‘bombs’ of dubious veracity to overthrow the Gruevski government. As they say… live by the bomb, die by the bomb! see <a href="https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/zaevs-messages-to-the-russian-pranksters-reveal-he-was-meeting-with-the-fake-news-propagandist-suspected-of-bringing-down-the-kurz-government/">link</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Zaev’s multiple talks and unsolicited messages with the supposed ‘Poroshenko and Stoltenberg’ indicate a staggering failure of intelligence- both basic critical thinking on his own part, and failure of the security system and protocol staff around him. We are talking here about the most important leader in the country, a fellow who could hardly be considered a political neophyte, making himself vulnerable to a calculated prank- you can almost hear the cursing up on Kale now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">At his press conference on Monday, after the release of the Youtube conversations spread like wildfire around the internet, Zaev listed the names of many of the other world leaders who had been pranked, like Macron and Boris Johnson, stating this put him in ‘good company.’ Yet these men had the presence of mind, and probably the protocol staff, to suss out a prank within minutes of receiving the call, and thus the pranksters failed to get much out of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Not so with Zaev. He turned out to be a gold mine of information. Listening to the audio, one gets the feeling that the Russians were even surprised by Zaev’s forthcoming attitude and willingness to be led on as they floated business propositions and asked about his political opinions. The overwhelming response of ordinary citizens on comment sections on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook reveal an enormous sense of humiliation and disbelief. Whether or not they were supporters of Zaev’s SDSM government, the people are angered and dismayed. It wasn’t enough to throw away the Macedonian name and identity at Prespa- now, with his embarrassing lack of critical thinking and poor security, Zaev made all Macedonians look like fools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">A FINAL NOTE- WHO WINS FROM ZAEV’S GAFFES?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">So, who comes out of the ‘Poroshenko and Stoltenberg Hour’ feeling not the worse for the wear? TEAM UZUNOV ranks its top five persons who stand to see their stock improve from the debacle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Hashim Thaci-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">the Kosovo president, who has been a controversial figure in his own country regarding alleged covert negotiations with Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic, made a spirited response and graciously accepted Zaev’s apology. Media also noted that, unlike the dimwitted Zaev, Thaci had not been taken in by the pranksters’ previous attempt to fool him in a different phone call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">‘Slick Nick’ Dimitrov-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Macedonia’s controversial foreign minister, who has stubbornly refused to denounce Albanian Neo-Nazism in Macedonia and controversially claims that he will be ‘on the right side of history’ for signing away Macedonia’s name and identity with the Prespa Agreement, can now sleep easier knowing that he can blame any diplomatic failures on his boss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Kyriakos Mitsitakis-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Greece’s new prime minister, whose New Democracy was elected to replace Zaev’s pal Alexis Tsipras and his left-wing Syriza government just a day before Macedonians were shocked by the Zaev conversations, has got to be loving Zaev’s own-goal, as it paints Zaev and Tsipras in a conspiratorial light negative for Greek interests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who could forget Zaev's Holocaust gaffe earlier this year? - see link <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/holocaust-gaffe-is-zaev-a-closet-anti-semite/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To add to the craziness of Macedonia PM Zaev being caught by Russian prank calls was his own earlier Holocaust gaffe, without provocation from outside forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To top that off, Zaev's SDSM Party General Secretary Dragi Rashkovski recent racist attack on Roma (Gypsies) and Italians now throws new light on Zaev's Holocaust gaffe. Does Zaev hate Jews?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rashkovski was allegedly caught trying to shakedown a foreign company for a kickback in doing "business" with the Macedonian government. He was recorded as making racist comments - see link <a href="https://skopjediem.com/2019/07/04/pm-zaev-not-to-ask-raskovski-to-resign-as-government-sec-gen/">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last week has witnessed a veritable avalanche of statements from Bulgarian officials such as Prime Minister Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister Karakachanov, Foreign Minister Zaharieva, Euro MPs Kovachev and Djambazki, and a panoply of Bulgarian “historians” serving on the Joint Macedonian-Bulgarian Historical Commission (set up as a result of the <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/07/bulgarian-agreement-dagger-at.html">Agreement on Good Neighbourliness</a> between Macedonian and Bulgaria signed on 1 August 2017 with the express task of revising Macedonia’s history to make it more palatable to the Bulgarian view that “ Macedonians are Bulgarians”) claiming that Macedonia’s greatest national hero and revolutionary, Goce Delchev, is Bulgarian and that the Ilinden Uprising (the foundation stone of Macedonian statehood) was a “ Bulgarian phenomenon”. Yesterday in an attempt to burnish his non-existent reputation as a statesman Borisov stated that “ Goce Delchev is the Bulgarian Che Guevara … who gave everything he had for the freedom of Macedonia” </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not to be outdone Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski, in a feeble display of servility, stated that “it is indisputable that Delchev identified as a Bulgarian”, whereas Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov who is known for his slavish, pro-NATO/EU orientation, opined that “I am not a historian who is able to say how Delchev identified." - More on Stevo Pendarovski at this link <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/pendarovski-papadopoulos-partition-too/">here</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dragi Georgiev, the Macedonian historian leading the Macedonian team participating in the joint historical commission, stated last week that “Delchev had a Macedonian political identity”, leaving open the way for Delchev’s Macedonian ethnicity to be speculated upon so as not to anger Bulgaria which has the right to veto Macedonia’s accession to the EU and NATO.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The historical revisionism emanating from Sofia of late and its attempt to misappropriate indisputable Macedonian heroes and historical events are the result of its centuries-long denial of a distinct Macedonian ethnicity, identity and language and its desire to justify its annexation of Pirin Macedonia in 1913. It is also an attempt to stake a claim to territory in the Republic of Macedonia should it be dismembered in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, back to Delchev. What is indisputably indisputable is the fact that Goce Delchev (1872-1903) was an ethnic Macedonian patriot whose overriding goal was to secure the establishment of an independent Macedonian state by revolutionary means. He did not fight for its union with Bulgaria or subservience to that state. He was fiercely opposed to Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian attempts to subjugate the Macedonian revolutionary movement to the expansionist goals of those monarchies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is true that Delchev studied at the Bulgarian Military Academy, however, he did not wish to obtain a rank as a Bulgarian officer. He wanted to obtain military skills to use in Macedonia but did not want to be used by the Bulgarians which is why he deliberately connived to be expelled once a month before being awarded his rank. In 1895, in a letter to Efrem Karanov, he wrote that he viewed Macedonian as a “ free little state”. Also in 1895, he stated the following to the Bulgarian Supremacist general Danail Nikolov:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moreover, in 1895, the so-called Bulgarian Delchev removed the word “Bulgarian” (as a noun and adjective, which had been included two years earlier) from the Constitution of the Secret Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation and replaced it with Macedonian and Odrinian ( Thracian). <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>The claim that Delchev is a Bulgarian because he wrote in literary Bulgarian is not only fallacious but bordering on the ridiculous. It is like saying that overseas Asian students in Australia become “Australians” because they study in (Australian) English. In addition, Delchev was born in Kukush in Aegean Macedonia (that part of Macedonia now within the borders of the Greek state) and his spoken language would have been informed by the local Kukush dialect of Macedonian. In addition, the literary Bulgarian language was not codified until 1899, 4 years before Delchev’s death.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Delchev was also concerned about the lack of literature in Macedonian. He would state in this regard: “Is there really no one to write at least one book in Macedonian?”. He encouraged authors such as Atanas Razdolov to write in that vein and Razdolov obliged by writing poetry opposing Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek propaganda and in favour of an independent Macedonian state.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his letters to Nikola Malesevski, Delchev was emphatic about his Macedonian origin and ethnicity. On 22 April 1897, he would write to Malesevski: “Is there a people which has endured such hardship at the hands of its own sons and traitors as the Macedonian people.?” Bulgarians make much of Delchev’s letter to Malesevski of 5 January 1899 in which he wrote: “But what can we do when we are Bulgarians”. This letter was written at a time of serious conflict between the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation led by Delchev and the Pro-Bulgarian Supremacists in Sofia and Salonica which<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> included mutual death threats. His ironic use of the word “Bulgarian” was to highlight the<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>fact that his enemies were Macedonian pro-Bulgarian spies under the influence of Bulgarian Exarchist and Supremacist political propaganda <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>who wished to harm the movement; what he meant by this is- we are having problems because our people are acting in Bulgarian interests”, not that they were ethnic Bulgarians .</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 12 January 1903 Pero Javorov, Delchev’s fellow chetnik (member of his guerrilla group) recorded one of his (Delchev’s) last messages in his shorthand notes, namely: “We will tear away the black veil which hangs over us and the sun of freedom will shine upon us, but It WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BE A BULGARIAN SUN”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Delchev’s wish was for him to be laid to rest in the capital of free Macedonia and in 1946 his remains were handed over to the Republic of Macedonia by Bulgaria in 1946. He was laid to rest in the church Sveti Spas in Skopje, Macedonia after his remains had been kept for many years in a storeroom of an office of the Makedonsko Bratstvo (Macedonian Brotherhood) in Sofia. If he was “Bulgarian” why did he not request that he be laid to rest in Sofia and why did they Bulgarian authorities not afford him a dignified place of burial in Sofia before 1946 if he was a “famous Bulgarian son”?. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, Borisov’s claim that Delchev is the Bulgarian Che Guevara is ludicrous, anachronistic ahistorical<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> and amateurish in the extreme. Che Guevara, unlike Borisov and the Bulgarian political establishment in the case of Macedonia and Macedonians, did not fight to change the identities and ethnicities of the nations of Latin America, their history, culture or to claim their territory. He fought for the triumph of socialism, true independence for Latin America free from American tutelage and social justice, in the same way, that Delchev, the socialist and anarchist, fought to establish a Macedonian, not Bulgarian, independent state in which the rights of all would be respected. Delchev was and still is the epitome of the Macedonian struggle for independence and statehood and for the rights of the Macedonian people to respect and dignity. Borisov is the antithesis of this. Che Guevara is rather the Argentinian Goce Delchev. <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dispute over Goce Delchev’s ethnicity and national identity is not an obscure historical<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>and diplomatic matter which is irrelevant to current relations between Macedonia and Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s outrageous intervention has definitely made it so <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>In disputing Delchev’s Macedonian identity and ethnicity Bulgaria wishes to undermine the Republic of Macedonia’s independence, sovereignty and security by imposing its ultranationalist thesis that “all Macedonians are Bulgarians”, a historically fallacious claim which denies Macedonians their basic, inalienable human rights. This is why this outlandish claim and the current quisling Macedonian government’s accommodation of it must be resolutely opposed. It is literally a mat</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ter of life and death for the Macedonian people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">"The Macedonian committees of the Interior are not composed of men who, having taken refuge in the principality, have derived ideas of a "great Bulgaria.' They comprise only autochthonous elements— schoolmasters, priests, and those of the people who have received some instruction. The interior committees do not care anything about Slavism; they are concerned exclusively with the interest of Macedonia and are opposed to outside intrusions. They believe that Macedonians only have the right to decide about Macedonia..."</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>His previous story was on the controversial Prespa Agreement signed between Greece and Macedonia - link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here </a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>More on the Ilinden Uprising of 1903 and Goce Delcev at this link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/germanys-role-in-crushing-ilinden.html">here</a> </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Hypocrisy without End- the West’s Disgraceful Treatment of Macedonia and Albania </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>By Sasha Uzunov </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As readers know, Macedonia was plunged into a political crisis in early 2015 after then opposition leader (and since 2017, prime minister) Zoran Zaev started publishing wiretapped ‘bombs’ allegedly implicating the government of VMRO-DPMNE’s Nikola Gruevski in acts of corruption. The Western media ran with the story, demonising the government and heaping praise upon Zaev as a pro-Western reformer visionary, while youth activists from the USAID backed Colour Revolution filled the streets in 2016, leading to a new government in December of that year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fast-forward three years, and Macedonia under Zaev has voluntarily given away its name and identity to Greece (the <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">Prespa Agreement</a>) and seen the economy sputter to a halt while crime and corruption are at an all-time high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yet curiously enough, at the same time, neighbouring Albania has been in political crisis for months, with street protests against the long-time rule of Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Socialist Party. As was the case in Macedonia, wiretaps revealing corruption – this time, leaked to the German newspaper Bild – have fuelled the anger of the Albanian opposition, which threatens to boycott the upcoming elections. Rama defiantly threatens to hold despite the decision of President Ilir Meta to postpone them. In fact, Rama’s parliament seeks to impeach the president out of spite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yet unlike the case in Macedonia, Western diplomats and media are not screaming for Rama’s head- quite the opposite. The visible signs of protests led by Rama’s arch-enemy, Lulzim Basha are too big to ignore, so they are reported on- as was the case with this Deutsche Welle footage from the middle of May. It revealed protesters outside Rama’s office, lobbing Molotov cocktails and demanding Rama resign immediately- a spectacle far beyond anything seen in Macedonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>THE WESTERN MEDIA AND RAMA’S PERSONALITY CULT</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Two things are odd about this. One, Albania’s street protests, unlike the US-backed Colour Revolution, seem to have a local flavour. Western interests have staunchly supported Rama and his rivals have to know that by protesting against him, they are also going against the will of Albania’s historic puppet-master, the United States. Yet they protest anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Second, unlike the case with Gruevski, who was chronically depicted in the Western press as a ‘Balkan strongman’ and sort of ‘mini-Putin,’ Edi Rama is depicted by the same media as an ‘unconventional’ prime minister, and an ‘artist’ and former basketball player by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/10/edi-rama-albania-pm-escape-curse-of-history">Guardian.</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Possibly appealing to the newspaper’s centre-left readership, the article even lets slip that Rama considers Tony Blair to be his political role model. Of course, the article dutifully mentions that there have been allegations of corruption against Rama, and that these pesky protests are continuing, but all in all it’s hard to see how this isn’t a political whitewash, an obvious attempt to keep up the cult of personality for Rama who is possibly facing his political demise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Guardian goes further, though, in quoting Rama’s peculiar take on history. According to the Albanian leader, he is a staunch anti-Communist (while ironically also leading a party that has close cooperation with far left elements like George Soros), representing a country that was the most persecuted such state in the Cold War. Rama states that joining the EU means “finally having the possibility to place ourselves in a safe zone from the curse of history”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One has to wonder- what does Rama mean by that? Perhaps, finally coming clean on the role of Albanian Nazi collaborators in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo during WWII?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The answer of course, is no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>RAMA AND AHMETI REWRITING HISTORY- WHITEWASHING THE ALBANIAN NAZI COLLABORATIONIST PAST</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Indeed, at the same time that the rest of the world is commemorating D-Day’s 75</span><span style="font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">th </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">anniversary, Rama and his sidekick in Macedonia (and perennial governing coalition partner) Ali Ahmeti are erecting statues to Nazi collaborators and holding elaborate ceremonies to commemorate them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In fact, just last November Rama also rehabilitated notorious WWII Albanian Nazi collaborator Midhat Frasheri with an elaborate state funeral in Tirana- reburying the leader of the Balli Kombetare, a Nazi quisling militia that ran roughshod over Albania and Macedonia, murdering innocent civilians and clashing with Partisans. After the war, Frasheri escaped to New York, where he lived out his days and was buried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This leads to an intriguing question- why was it deemed necessary to reinter Frasheri in Albania? Who was behind the logistics of this process, and why did it have to happen when it did?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Balkan Insight reported about the state funeral at the time, noting that while many supported Rama’s rehabilitation of Frasheri, “others argued that the ceremony represented the rehabilitation of a Nazi collaborator.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nevertheless, “Aurel Plasari, an Albanian historian, gave the main speech during the ceremony and condemned what he called the “lies” spread about Frasheri in the Communist era. Prime Minister Edi Rama said Frasheri was a great Albanian who helped create the modern Albanian alphabet and founded the country’s Institute of Albanology, the predecessor of Albanian Academy of Sciences, but “has a problem in his biography”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That last phrase is surely one of the oddest ways anyone has yet come up with to say ‘Nazi collaborator’. One has to wonder what exactly Rama meant- surely, he must know deep down that the burial stunt is a historical hoax of epic proportions, and deeply offensive to all victims of the Balli Kombetare and Naziism in general. link to Balkan Insight <a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2018/11/15/leader-of-albania-nationalists-during-wwii-reburied-with-full-honors-11-15-2018/">article</a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>THE WEST IGNORES THE ISSUE- EVEN AS IT MARKS THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY !</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">TEAM UZUNOV has also reported extensively on how Rama’s allies in Macedonia, Albanian nationalists Ali Ahmeti and DUI, have gone out of their way to erect statues to Frasheri’s direct Balli Kombetar commander in Macedonia during WWII, Xhem Hasa Gostivari. So, at the exact moment that the West has been busy overseeing the complete and total destruction of any trace of the Macedonian identity, history and culture, it has been silently complicit in the Albanian creation of a new historical narrative based on nationalist Nazi war quislings. -More on Ali Ahmeti's Neo-Nazi ideology at this <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2019/01/golden-dui-axis-of-silence.html">link</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Western diplomats are surely aware of the hypocrisy, and they have unsurprisingly failed to tackle the issue at all. On 19 November 2018, a few days after the reburial, we rang up the US Embassy in Tirana asking if they would be commenting on the allegations of Frasheri as a Nazi collaborator. At that time, the embassy said that an answer would be forthcoming. Eight months later, and still no response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Reburying Albania’s top Nazi collaborator while erecting statues in Macedonia to his local commander Xhem Hasa Gostivari who was a proven Nazi collaborator- it just adds insult to injury, but the West doesn’t seem to care. Western diplomats either avoid, or carefully dance around the question, as was the case with the US Deputy Consul in Melbourne, when asked about why the US supports Nazi collaborationist historical revisionists in Macedonia, at a ceremony marking the 75</span><span style="font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">th </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">anniversary of D-Day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Assistant Consul General in Melbourne Megan Douglas could probably be forgiven for not being up on her Albanian history. But one woman who has no excuse for keeping quiet- and who surely knows the local reality all too well- is Victoria Nuland, one of the most important US diplomats overseeing the ‘Colourful Revolution’ in Macedonia. She has also refused to comment for our request for clarification. Readers can hear the specific questions we left in this phone call to Anna Newby spokeswoman of the Brookings Institute, where Nuland is now employed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>FURTHER HYPOCRISY- AND WHY RAMA IS INDISPENSABLE TO THE WEST</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The boundless hypocrisy concerning Edi Rama and his political rivals, as depicted in the Western media and diplomatic behaviour, has also been abundantly on display in how they have treated events involving both countries’ heads of state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On 8 June, the AP <a href="https://www.apnews.com/d3be3e986ba14047a59814a266ffaac9">reported</a> Albanian President Ilir Meta was postponing local elections that are scheduled for late June, in order to reduce political tensions in the country, due to the ongoing protests and political crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Despite the President’s </span>intervention<span style="font-size: 11pt;">, the West has not stepped in in his defence of stability, allowing Rama to intimidate and attempt to overthrow President Meta through an impeachment procedure, which the government is trying to do. In fact, Western officials threw their weight in behind Rama by issuing veiled threats to the opposition. As the AP reported about the anti-Rama protesters:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“The United States and the European Union urged them to disavow violence and sit in a dialogue with government representatives to resolve the political crisis. In an interview with private TV station Top Channel, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mathew Palmer warned opposition political leaders “if there are acts of violence in future protests, we will consider them responsible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meta is Rama’s political rival, of course, but his stated rhetoric about putting the state’s interests first was oddly reminiscent of how former Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov announced a blanket pardon for all implicated in the wiretap scandal in Macedonia, in April 2016, as a way of calming tensions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of course in the latter case too, the West wanted nothing to do with that idea as it needed Zoran Zaev as the preferred puppet for future use in changing Macedonia’s name. But it did use Ivanov’s decision as a convenient pretext to launch its ‘Colourful Revolution’ of USAID funded demonstrators- which had already been planned and funded months in advance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As TEAM UZUNOV has exclusively <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html">reported</a>, Edi Rama’s tentacles extended deeply into that operation as well- his ex-wife, Delina Fico, being on the board of directors of a shady New York-based State Department-funded group, the East-West Management Institute. The EWMI was part of the larger US-led coup plot to not only overthrow the Gruevski government but also flesh out the incoming Zaev government with ‘new faces’ (some of whom, like former Colour Revolutionary Pavle Bogoevski have since been disgraced and have been forced to resign from parliament -which is still pending !). - Go to Unmasking OTI <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/unmasking-oti/">story</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">As we recounted in the above article, Rama “unleashed several months of political crisis in Macedonia in early 2017 by inviting ethnic Albanian politicians from Macedonia to his office, where they created the so-called ‘<a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/01/surrendering-state-post-macedonia.html">Tirana Platform’</a> of aggressive ultra-nationalist demands that were not part of the December 2016 election, that was frantically organised by Western powers to drive the name-change process faster.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A detail that has been overlooked from that period, which may help explain why the West has been steadfast in its support for Mr. Rama while the proverbial castle walls seem to be falling down around him, is his probable role as a CIA asset in the crucial weeks after the December 2016 Macedonian elections. It is interesting to remember that was also the period of transition in the States between the Obama and Trump administrations. Surely, at such a sensitive time, senior intel officials would have more important things to do than fly out to the Balkans?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Apparently, not. On 7 December, just days before Macedonia’s crucial vote, Obama’s powerful CIA director, John Brennan, visited Albania on what the Tirana Times dubbed an “unannounced visit.” America’s top spook travelled all the way to Tirana to discuss “regional security, counter-terrorism cooperation, intelligence sharing, and other bilateral affairs,” according to a statement released by the United States embassy.” Did interfering in Macedonia’s election and ethnic affairs count as one of those “other bilateral affairs?” - Tirana Times<a href="http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=130307"> story </a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>FAST EDI RAMA PUTS SLOW STEVO PENDAROVSKI IN HIS PLACE</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Still, despite his CIA ties and role in the Macedonian ethnic meddling and subsequent government formation, Edi Rama is damaged goods and has, one would think, lasted long beyond his expiry date. After all, the situation in Albania is worsening by the day and if the upcoming elections take a turn for the worse, the country might be back to the situation it was in in 1997, when state arsenals were raided and anarchy prevailed briefly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The answer for why Rama is still indispensable for the West is probably because his mission is not yet finished: that is, the mission to bring Macedonia down to the Albanian level, which is the lowest in every respect in the region. While one might criticise the former VMRO-DPMNE government for any number of reasons, the fact is that while it was in power, Macedonia was the fastest-growing economy in the region and starting to build an industrial base, increasing its distance from other would-be EU members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This situation was highly alarming for Greece, but not only for them, because it meant that Macedonia could look forward to a brighter future and let other countries to make do as best they could. It appears, looking in the rear-view mirror, that a large part of the Zaev-Tsipras-Rama romance was not just about changing Macedonia’s name and giving ethnic Albanians more rights- it was actually about reducing the Macedonian standard of living, economy, reform progress, and bringing it in every way in line with Albania- even if that process means glorifying Albanian Nazi war collaborators while deleting Macedonian history to please the Greeks and Bulgarians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Macedonian media recently reported on this by citing an interview with VMRO-DPMNE Vice-President Aleksandar Nikoloski. According to <a href="https://nezavisen.mk/nikoloski-zaev-i-osmani-kochea-za-da-bideme-so-albanija-a-sega-se-chudat/">Nezavisen,</a> Nikoloski recounted it thus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Last year, at the beginning of April, I informed the Macedonian public that there is an agreement between the governments of Zaev and Edi Rama - operationalised through Bujar Osmani and then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, Ditmir Bushati, which aimed to create a group Macedonia - Albania. Part of the deal was to slow down (Macedonian) reforms with the goal of not getting a date for (EU) negotiations in 2018… despite the fact that Zaev and Dimitrov decided to sign the embarrassing Prespa deal, (Macedonia) did not get a date and did not start negotiations in 2018! Now Macedonia is not getting a date this June and will not start negotiations in 2019“.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Whether or not this was the plan from the beginning, as Nikoloski alleges, it was picked up on recently when the recently elected Macedonian president, SDSM’s Stevo Pendarovski, briefly made waves by suggesting that Macedonia should not be coupled up with Albania in the long and probably fruitless quest to join the European Union. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pendarovski, a longtime US<span style="color: white;"><u><b> </b></u></span></span><a href="https://alternatecomms.com/pendarovski-papadopoulos-partition-too/" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: white;"><b>asset</b></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: white;"><u><b> </b></u></span>who knows on which side his bread is buttered, quickly changed his mind when Albanian politicians reminded him that he had only been elected because of them. Although hitching Macedonian wagons to the dead horse that is Albania had not previously been a precondition, Pendarovski quickly walked his idea back, and now the secret plan Nikoloski alluded to is the reality.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To add insult to injury, the head capo of this farcical film, Edi Rama, announced that the Macedonian stooge statesman is again in his good graces during an appearance in the beleaguered ethnic Macedonian enclave of Pustec, in Mala Prespa. Ironically enough, it was on a campaign stop for the controversial upcoming elections. Rama “praised” Pendarovski, and “contrasted him to his political opponent, the Albanian President Ilir Meta.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">According to the pro-VMRO-DPMNE newspaper (more like a mouthpiece) <a href="https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/after-being-called-out-by-rama-pendarovski-now-sees-macedonias-eu-accession-as-intertwined-with-that-of-albania/">Republika</a>, now that Pendarovski has gone back to the single-track model for EU accession, Rama is even referring to him as “my good friend.” This smacks of the kind of lines uttered in mob films and Macedonia is now clearly under the complete control of Albania- which is apparently how the West likes it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The EU / US combination has blatant double standards - it's dismantled Macedonian identity, imposed name change, in order to lower enough Greek and Bulgarian opposition to Macedonia inorder to sneak Macedonia into NATO for US strategic needs. Both Greece and Bulgaria are EU and NATO members and have used their power to veto Macedonia's membership of both as powerful leverage. More on the Prespa Agreement and the Goodneighbourly Agreement with Bulgaria at this<a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html"> link </a>and<a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/07/bulgarian-agreement-dagger-at.html"> link</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">But the EU/US combo has at the same time endorsed Edi Rama the Prime Minister in Albania & Ali Ahmeti ex Albanian terrorist turned political kingmaker in Macedonia who venerate notorious WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborators Midhat Frasheri and Xhem Hasa Gostivari and the fascist ideology that these two historical figures espoused. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Moreover, Rama and Ahmeti are corrupt and no better than any other Balkan leader for that matter. But they serve a purpose- and morality, democracy have nothing to do with it ! It's pure strategic self interest for the US. Nothing more. </span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">In 2017 I broached the idea of <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/01/federalising-albania-nasty-rebound-for.html?m=1">Federalising </a>Albania: granting the large Greek minority in the south it's own "republic" & giving ethnic Macedonians, Montenegrins, Aromanians (Vlachs) etc equal rights. Maybe that could help Albania get into EU quicker & tackle its endemic corruption problem? Food for thought!</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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There isn’t that much difference between Nikos Michaloliakos of Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn and Ali Ahmeti of Albanian nationalist party in Macedonia, DUI (or BDI). Ahmeti has gone “one better” than Golden Dawn, he’s actually managed to impose World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia -post-2001 – without the European Union or the United States batting an eyelid.</div>
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Nazi statues are banned in Germany – an EU and NATO member. Yet Ahmeti has managed to get EU tacit approval to build Albanian Nazi statues in Macedonia. That’s an incredible and frightening phenomenon which he has managed to pull off. Something Golden Dawn hasn’t managed to do in Greece – build Greek Nazi collaborator statues.</div>
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Greek Neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn is largely condemned by the mainstream Western media for being extremist. Not so with the Albanian DUI, which has been given a “makeover” by the US and EU.</div>
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DUI’s genesis goes back to the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army’s “Macedonian franchise” led by Ali Ahmeti who started a war in Macedonia in 2001, ostensibly to grab territory and create a Greater Albania. When the US’s link to it was revealed, the narrative changed from Ahmeti being a terrorist thug to human rights activist, even though he was espousing Neo-Nazi ideology, including ethnic cleansing of Macedonia, or “Slavs” as he referred to them. The same terminology used by Greek Golden Dawn for Macedonians. – – more on Ali Ahmeti and Albanian Nazi collaborator statues at this <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi-statues/">link</a>: </div>
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To cover up US complicity in letting loose Ahmeti in Macedonia, the Ohrid Framework Agreement was signed in 2001 which created a defacto Albanian state within Macedonia and concreted a loyal US ally within Macedonia. This meant the Macedonian state would never be able to act independently unless it got approval from the Albanian political bloc – which in reality meant Washington. </div>
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The end result of this is the controversial Prespa Agreement signed with Greece in 2018 and the constitutional changes that went with it, which in effect wipes out a Macedonian identity and renames Macedonia as North Macedonia to satisfy Greek demands in return for Macedonia being able to overcome a Greek blockade over NATO and EU membership. – more at these links <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/the-gruevski-gambit/">here</a> and <a href="https://alternatecomms.com/whats-in-a-name/">here</a></div>
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A recent Time magazine article acknowledges the crucial importance of ethnic Albanian backing for the EU (and by extension the US) in Macedonia:</div>
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“In Macedonia the name-change is supported by a coalition of a minority of the dominant Slav-Macedonian ethnic group and Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority, while it is opposed by the majority of Slav-Macedonians. In other words, the deal pits a coalition of minorities against a majority of the majority. Such an arrangement is bound to reignite ethnic tensions and increase political polarization in Macedonia—the exact opposite of the E.U.’s intention.” – link <a href="http://time.com/5508640/prespes-macedonia-greece-eu-democracy/">here</a></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Golden Dawn was founded by some of the key people who ruled during the 1967-74 junta, and Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos, the leader of the colonels who led the 1967 coup, groomed the party’s founder and current leader, Nikos Michaloliakos. Papadopoulos was a Nazi collaborator and served with the German “security battalions” that executed 130,000 Greek civilians during World War II. Papadopoulos was trained by the US Army and recruited by the CIA. Indeed, he was the first CIA asset to govern a European country." - link </span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/greeces-golden-dawn-fascists-gate/" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">here </span></a></span><br />
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The amended Macedonian Constitution now enshrines the Ohrid Framework Agreement, the US’s get of jail card for letting loose the KLA in Macedonia in the 2001 war.</div>
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Not surprisingly post 2001 war, former KLA commanders in Macedonia such as Nevzat Bejta, now a loyal Ahmeti lieutenant, felt confident enough, no doubt with tacit US and EU approval or at least a willingness for Washington and Brussels to remain silent, to embark on a program to build – first in 2006 and later in 2013 – statues to notorious World War II Albanian Nazi collaborators such as Xhem Hasa Gostivari, who murdered Macedonians and Albanians opposed to fascism. Such statues don’t represent “peaceful ethnic co-existence.” </div>
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They are a deliberate message, reminder, to Macedonians of what the majority of the Albanian political bloc in Macedonia really believes in, despite the Western spin and gloss, polish placed on Ahmeti and others such as another DUI party member Bujar Osmani, deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia in the Zaev coalition government.</div>
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The interesting thing is Nazi statues are banned in Germany. But here in Macedonia, which has a proud history of an anti-Nazi resistance movement, the Partizans, there were now Albanian Nazi collaborator statues.</div>
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It has now got to a point where flaunting Albanian Neo-Nazi ideology – such as a Greater Albania, veneration of Nazi collaborators – has become commonplace, brazen. A number of Albanian football (soccer) fans in Macedonia calls themselves the Ballists – after the WWII Albanian Nazi quisling militia, the Balli Kombetar. Some even advertise Xhem Hasa Gostivari as a “hero.”</div>
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Macedonia doesn’t have a long term future within or without the EU if a segment of the population and its “mainstream” political leaders hold Neo-Nazi views such as the Albanian political bloc. That doesn’t make for peaceful vo-existence.</div>
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Albanian Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa Gostivari took part in ethnic cleansing of Macedonians during World War II. He also murdered Albanians who didn’t support fascism. Building a statue to him post-2001 signifies that Albanian leaders hold these alarming views now in the 21st century. The EU and US deliberately say nothing.<br />
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<b>Comment by Canadian-Macedonian pundit Mark Branov (right) about the disturbing parallels between Golden Dawn and DUI: </b><br />
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"Ahmeti and Co. are a creation of the Euroatlantic power structure. Originally deployed in Kosovo, the UCK [KLA] became the ONA [NLA] in 2001, which in turn became DUI in 2002, but the terrorists remained a tool of Macedonia's oppression by foreign interests. Meanwhile, the Chrysi Avgi [Golden Dawn] appear to simply be those Greeks who openly admit to the racism and xenophobia which is commonplace in modern Greek culture, and they are endorsed by agents of the Greek state, such as the police and the Greek Orthodox church."</div>
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Just to reiterate, as we have pointed out above, there isn't that much difference between Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn and Albanian nationalist party in Macedonia (DUI/BDI): both believe in ethnic cleansing, part of the Neo-Nazi mantra. DUI has gone one step further, it has supported the building of statues to WWII Albanian Nazi collaborators such as Xhem Hasa Gostivari. Gostvari was financed by The Third Reich and took part in ethnic cleansing operations during WWII.<br />
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"called to push for the complete Hellenisation of Greek Macedonia and Western Thrace through the expulsion of Northern Greece's last remaining Macedonian-speaking minority (or so-called Slavophone Greeks)"<br />
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Ali Ahmeti, leader of DUI:<br />
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His racist motivation in starting the 2001 war in Macedonia:<br />
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One of Ahmeti's commanders: "Like all wars, ours was for territory - not because of some human rights problem!<br />
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-The Coming Balkan Caliphate, by Chris Deliso - <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-7dq8mi0DWkC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=ahmeti%20slav%20forces&source=bl&ots=_abdN_uERE&sig=ACfU3U0PLgc3YMSbq-jT61evMMt_Gp6R7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqwObowJHgAhUMb30KHWuOB5kQ6AEwEXoECAkQAQ&fbclid=IwAR1o9bYh-zyZeIEexgufbFp7rBGeF7nRHqyxL3qVZeGzI99bP6yX1w3dpe0#v=onepage&q=ahmeti%20slav%20forces&f=true">link</a> - extract below:<br />
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Imagine if a US Ambassador in Athens met with Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader and had a media photo session with handshakes and smiles. What would the reaction be? Probably condemnation.<br />
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Yet in Macedonia back in 2010 US Ambassador Philip T. Reeker is all smiles with Albanian nationalist leader Ali Ahmeti who has supported the building of WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statues!<br />
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<b>You can see below the list of people – US, EU officials, Macedonian and Albanian “experts” – all refusing in some manner or another to comment on Albanian Neo-Nazism in Macedonia.</b></div>
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<b>GREECE THROWS IN “BORROWED GERMAN CASH” AT US SPIN CAMPAIGN!</b><br />
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Greece’s Ambassador to the US, Mr Theocharis Lalacos, formerly Greek Ambassador to Macedonia, signed in September a million dollar deal with a leading US lobby firm to push Greece’s national agenda in Washington, according to US Justice Department documents.<br />
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Cash-strapped” Greece turning up the Diplomatic Hellenic Heat !<br />
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September 2018 - Greek Embassy in Washington DC hires US lobby firm DLA Piper at $75,000 USD per month retainer to lobby US government over Greece’s national interests. That’s $900,000 USD -close to a million dollars in official influence peddling.<br />
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Mr Mark Branov, a long time Canadian Macedonian advocate and an international education consultant by profession, gave this statement to TEAM UZUNOV Blog:<br />
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“It seems like Athens will spare no amount of borrowed German Euros in pursuit of age old strategic goals, including the cultural genocide of Aegean Macedonians [ethnic Macedonians in Greece].<br />
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“And considering U.S. dominance in the [Balkan] region, many of the major decisions actually take place in Washington, a town where money talks.”<br />
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The US Justice Department’s FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) website lists no active US lobbyists engaged by the Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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Greece and Bulgaria deny the existence of a Macedonian identity and has blocked the Republic of Macedonia from joining the European Union and NATO. A pro US government was installed in Macedonia in early 2017 led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev who has signed a number of controversial agreements with neighbouring Bulgaria and Greece which aims to erase Macedonian identity in order to satisfy Bulgarian and Greek demands; both staunch allies of the US.<br />
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In 1912 after nearly five centuries of Ottoman Turkish occupation, Macedonia was partitioned among Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. All three pursued a brutal colonial campaign of assimilating Macedonians by force. The part of Macedonia under Serbian colonial rule became after World War II a republic within Tito’s Federal Communist Yugoslavia. In 1991 it declared independence from Yugoslavia and Greece from day one has blocked its entry into the EU and NATO.<br />
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Macedonia signed the controversial Prespa Agreement earlier this year with Greece which will see Macedonia change its name to North Macedonia and remove “Macedonian” as a specific nationality or ethnicity. This has angered many Macedonians who boycotted in large numbers a referendum held on 30 September this year to accept the Agreement.<br />
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On 19 October under murky circumstances the government managed to secure two-thirds majority in a parliamentary vote to “open up” the Macedonian constitution to make the necessary changes to satisfy Greek demands made in the Prespa Agreement.<br />
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Controversial US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily. His path has crossed Ambassador Lalacos’ a few times in Turkey and in Macedonia. See link <a href="https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/the-embassy/head-of-mission/curriculum-vitae.html">here</a> and <a href="https://mk.usembassy.gov/embassy/skopje/ambassador/">here </a>TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-51952437605033295762018-11-22T14:49:00.006+11:002020-10-02T10:39:44.532+10:00WIRETAPS -GERMAN EMBASSY CONTRADICTS ITSELF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>TEAM UZUNOV BLOG IS AUTHORISED TO ANNOUNCE...</b><br />by Sasha Uzunov<br />
<br />The man at the centre of Macedonia’s wiretap controversy which brought down the Nikola Gruevski government in 2016 may have been acting on behalf of German intelligence (BND) rather than as an “anti-corruption” campaigner.<br />
<br />Western intelligence sources, including an ex Macedonian intelligence <g class="gr_ gr_2176 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="2176" id="2176">officer</g>, have told TEAM UZUNOV blog that George “Lazenby” Lazarevski, the man hailed as a hero whistleblower intelligence officer had given unauthorised access to the surveillance system - including the bugged telephone conversations of Macedonia politicians namely the then Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski -to a diplomat at the German Embassy in Macedonia.<div><br />
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<br />According to our sources, the German diplomat is Ralf Brandlts, believed to be the BND resident under diplomatic cover.<br />
<br />Lazarevski is also alleged to have given access to US and other foreign intelligence services.<br />
<br />TEAM UZUNOV blog on 30 October 2018 went to the German Embassy to check out the claims - we were told to turn off the camera. Later an email response (see below).<br />
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<br />The official response is puzzling and contradictory, suggesting the German Embassy had been caught out. First, there is no denial of the allegation against Mr Brandts. Second, the German Embassy says it does not comment on “home affairs” in Macedonia. That’s an outright lie. The then Deputy German Ambassador Mr Marco Aquatacci gave a statement to TEAM UZUNOV about World War II Albanian collaborator statues built in Macedonia post-2001 war by Albanian politicians. You can see the link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/12/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi.html">here</a><br />
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<b>TEAM UZUNOV blog also contacted Mr Lazarevski but has not yet received a response. </b><br />
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<br />The controversial svengali like<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Veru%C5%A1evski"> Zoran Verusevski </a>is a man who knows many secrets - in fact, he was a Russian intelligence (GRU - Russian Military Intelligence) asset who had been turned - recruited - by the CIA. He remains a prized catch. This is what our sources tell us.<br />
<br />Verusevski was the Director of Macedonian Intelligence (UBK) for a short period in 1998 and in 2006 named as an advisor to the Macedonian Embassy in Rome, Italy.<br />
<br />He has been close to the SDSM party, of which current Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev belongs.<br />
<br />In 2015 Verusevski was arrested by the Gruevski VMRO-DPMNE government.<br />
<br />Verusevski is central to the whole wiretapping scandal in Macedonia which erupted in 2015-16 and led to the Colour Revolution toppling Nikola Gruevski as Prime Minister.<br />
<br />According to OCCRP website, Lazarevski approached Verusevski with his “concerns” over wiretapping. see link <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/7134-the-spy-who-overthrew-macedonia-s-government">here</a><br />
<br />What has remained puzzling about the “wiretaps” is nothing has ever been released involving Albanian leader Ali Ahmeti, who had been in the coalition government with Nikola Gruevski for a decade (2006-2016). Absolutely no mention of corrupt behaviour on Ahmeti’s part. Yet this is incredulous. How is it possible for massive corruption to exist under Gruevski’s rule without Ahmeti’s involvement? Simply not possible.<br />
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<b>RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE? - Spiritual Security?</b><br />
<br />Our sources have told us that Russian Military intelligence (GRU) operates on Macedonian soil with a team of no more than 20 personnel - small in comparison to the US and Western agencies - and about 70% of paid Russian informers are ethnic Albanians, including the female relative of a prominent Albanian politician.<br />
<br />The wiretaps - under US orders - only target Macedonians and don’t include Albanian political bloc for 2 reasons - most obvious is to hide corruption link to Gruevski but more importantly the embarrassing admission that 70% of Russian intelligence informants are ethnic Albanians, the US’s “solid ally” in Macedonia.<br />
<br />Russian intelligence focuses on “spiritual security” in Macedonia - the top 5 priorities of GRU:<br />1. The status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church<br />2. Combatting radical Islam/Jihadists and monitoring extremists linked to Chechnya<br />3. Albanian politicians' behaviour towards Macedonians<br />4. Countering British influence in Europe- seen as Russia’s “arch and main enemy”<br />5. Monitoring US intelligence operations in Macedonia.<br />
<br />Russian intelligence operations in Macedonia are more to do with guarding Russia against Islamist terrorism (ISIS) linked to Chechnya than “interfering” in Macedonia, as hysterically has been claimed. [The Caucasus region -Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Armenia, etc. remains Russia's soft underbelly].<br />
<br />A high percentage of ethnic Albanians from Macedonia and Kosovo are members of ISIS fighting in Iraq and Syria. This explains the large number of Albanian informants in Macedonia used by GRU - Russian military intelligence.<br />
<br />Some of the favourite rendezvous points for GRU handlers and their Albanian informers include places or locations that are mainly frequented by ethnic Macedonians so as not to arouse suspicion within the Albanian community.<br />
<br />Our sources have given a list but we will publish one as an example:<br />
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<b>1. The <g class="gr_ gr_253 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="253" id="253"><g class="gr_ gr_132 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="132" id="132">Lesok</g></g> Macedonian Orthodox Monastery near Tetovo. Ironically it was bombed by the Albanian KLA’s terrorist franchise in Macedonia the NLA during the 2001 war. Rebuilt with EU funding.</b><br />
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<br />-----------------------------<br />The full email exchange with the German Embassy over wiretap claims.<br />
<br />From: .SKOP V Schaller, Peter <v skop.auswaertiges-amt.de=""></v><br />Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2018 7:13 PM<br />To: sashauzunov@hotmail.com<br />Subject: media questions<br />
<br />Dear Mr Uzunov,<br />
<br />thanks for your email.<br />
<br />We do not comment on internal issues of the Embassy and also not on home affairs of Macedonia.<br />
<br />Regards<br />Peter Schaller<br />
<br />Peter Schaller<br />Deputy Head<br />Embassy of The Federal Republic of Germany<br />Lerinskaa 59, 1000 Skopje<br />Tel.: +389 (0) 2 3093 900<br />Fax: +389 (0) 2 3093 899<br />Email: v@skop.diplo.de<br />Internet: www.skopje.diplo.de<br />-----------------------------<br />
<br />Mr Ralf Brandts<br />Germany Embassy<br />Skopje, Macedonia<br />
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<br />Dear Mr Brandts<br />
<br />My name is Sasha Uzunov, an Australian journalist based in Macedonia.<br />
<br />I need to ask you some serious questions:<br />
<br />1. Did you have unauthorised access to Macedonian Intelligence intercepts (surveillance records, wiretaps)?<br />2. . Did Macedonian Intelligence officer George Lazarevski give you access to the surveillance system with a login pass?<br />3. Are you a German Intelligence officer (BND) under diplomatic <g class="gr_ gr_264 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="264" id="264"><g class="gr_ gr_130 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="130" id="130">cover ?</g></g><br />4. Germany has done nothing to persuade Albanian leaders in Macedonia to remove a controversial WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statue of Xhem Hasa. Why is that?<br />
<br />I am available to come to the German Embassy for an interview.<br />
<br />Regards<br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Besa is an ethnic Albanian political party, recently formed in Macedonia and a member of the current coalition govetrment led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The controversial Culture Minister is Asaf Ademi from Besa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Besa has been portrayed as an Erdogan inspired Islamist party but Dutch diplomatic sources have told TEAM UZUNOV that this is simply a political smokescreen to hide Dutch and US influence. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Besa is demanding that Albanian be made the second official language in Macedonia on par with Macedonian and embedded in the constitution despite language rights already guaranteed by 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Besa supports name change for Macedonia and the Prespa Agreement and has threatened to remove its support in parliamentary votes now being undertaken to implement constitutional changes in line with the Prespa Agreement. Many Macedonians see the Agreement as a western sponsored plan to erase Macedonian identity to satisfy Greek and Bulgarian nationalist demands in order for Macedonia to gain entry into the EU and NATO</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Both Greece and Bulgaria are EU and NATO members and have in effect blackmailed Macedonia unless it makes dramatic changes to its identity, something extraordinary in terms of demands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">An article from Balkan Insight website, largely pro Albanian portal purporting to be impartial, had this to report about Grubi back in 2013 -see link <a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonia-convicts-14-over-ethnic-clashes/1431/130">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The violence was organised on over social networks by the ethnic Macedonian group, which was mainly composed of football fans, and the ethnic Albanians who were mobilised by an NGO called Razbudi se (Wake Up).</span></span></div>
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<b>QUESTIONS POSED TO THE NETHERLAND’S AMBASSADOR TO MACEDONIA </b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">1. Ambassador Plomp, does The Netherlands government or any Netherlands institutions or organisations either private or public finance the ethnic Albanian political party in Macedonia called BESA? </span></span></div>
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1. Dali Besa dobiva pomos od Ambasadata na Holandija vo Makedonija?<br />
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2. Dali Besa dobiva finansiski donacii (paricni) od Holandija - od drzavni institucii ili privatni NGO (ne vladini organizacii)?<br />
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3. Dali Besa kje pobara da se trgne spomenikot vo Simnica za Xhem Hasa, Albanski nacist i sorabotnik na Hitlerova Germanija vo vremeto na Vtorata Svetska Vojna?<br />
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4. Albanski politicari koj barat imeto na Makedonija da se smeni, mnogu makedonci go tolkuvat kako Albanski rasizam kon makedonci. Sto e tvojata reakcija?<br />
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5. Hipoteticki, dali bi reagiral ako etnicki Grk politicar vo Albania pobaral imeto na Albanija da se smeni?<br />
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1. Does Besa receive assistance from the Netherlands Embassy in Macedonia?<br />
2. Does Besa receive any financial donations from the Netherlands - either from state institutions or private NGOs (Non Government Organisations)?<br />
3. Will Besa seek to remove the statue in Simnica of Xhem Hasa, the Albanian Nazi and collaborator with Hitler’s Germany during World War II?<br />
4. Albanian politicians who seek to change Macedonia’s name are regarded by many Macedonians as being Albanian racism towards Macedonians. What is you reaction to that?<br />
5. Hypothetically if an ethnic Greek politician in Albania campaigned to change Albania’s name would you react?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ms Blinne Ni Ghralaigh of UK based Matrix Chambers legal firm issued a statement through the firm’s media spokeswoman, Ms Rachel Murray, to Team Uzunov Blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I’m afraid Blinne is extremely busy at the moment and unfortunately I don’t think she is going to be able to assist you with your enquiries."</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">She has previously worked for Macedonia in its legal case against Greece over the 1995 Interim Agreement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: black;">Sasha Uzunov: [US] Ambassador Baily, sir, did Amanda Sloat write the Prespa Agreement, sir, a former US State Department official, sir? Did she write it, sir? From the Brookings Institute. Do you wish to comment Ambassador Baily, sir?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: black;">Amb Baily: Mr Uzumanov [Uzunov], um, I think that is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard in my life. The Prespa Agreement was negotiated by the governments of Macedonia and Greece with the help of the United Nations. I don’t think you need to look any further than that. Thank you very much.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The crescendo of reports of MPs being threatened, bought off etc etc in the end sounded nothing more than cheap theatrics from both the governing SDSM party and the main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party to collude to get the Prespa Deal through..despite VMRO-DPMNE being opposed to the Deal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It gave the Opposition the escape hatch it needed in order not alienate its supporter base. But in the end enormous US pressure won out to change Macedonia’s name and identity for strategic needs - getting it into NATO and appeasing Greek and Bulgar nationalist demands (both NATO allies).</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The vote now opens up the Macedonian constitution to be changed as per the Prespa Agreement - namely Macedonia becoming North Macedonia; giving up any claims to any ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece, changing history books, removing any reference to Greece’s brutal colonialism of Macedonia and Macedonians beginning in 1913 when the territory was partitioned between Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria and in effect giving Greece de facto right to interfere in Macedonian sovereignty. And removing any reference to a Macedonian national identity but Albanian identity plus the other ethnic minorities keep their identities intact. It’s George Orwell’s 1984 frighteningly come true. A police like apparatus will enforce that no mention of Macedonia is made without the prefix North.</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> In return for all of this is Greece not blocking Macedonia’s entry into both the EU and NATO. </span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Moreover, the constitutional changes envisioned would include placing the Ohrid Framework Agreement, the 2001 deal signed after the ethnic Albanian uprising, instigated by the US, which has turned Macedonia into an unofficial federation, in the constitution. This would in probability facilitate Albanian secession from Macedonia down the track. </span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Moreover,</span><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: white;">Inserting the Ohrid Framework Agreement into the Macedonian constitution is a deliberate ploy by the US to give it an alibi for unleashing the 2001 ethnic Albanian war in Macedonia. see<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/11/edvulliamy.peterbeaumont"> link</a> to Guardian article from 2001.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">STRATEGIC CHESS-BOARD - </span>Harald Kotschy - ex Austrian Ambassador to Macedonia remains a staunch critic of the Prespa Agreement:</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The surprise was great on the evening of September 30th. Among the Balkan correspondents and ambassadors in Skopje. * The elite of Brussels, who had come to support the government in Skopje, which had been brought to power by means of a "regime change" by the EU and the USA last year, to the very last media. In the US and NATO, urgently need Macedonia as a staging area for the encirclement of Russia to master the "Eurasian chess board" (Zbigniew Brzezinski Quote).</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In the non-binding referendum on the Macedonian-Greek prespa agreement aimed at settling the name dispute, almost two-thirds of voters from all camps in the urn stayed away last Sunday. Ethnic Macedonian voters expected to follow the boycott appeal. What was surprising, however, was the low participation of the - according to their politicians - per EU and per NATO oriented Albanian population. This shows that, on the one hand, the actual size of this population group no longer corresponds to the results of the (most recent) census of 2002, on the other hand, the Albanian scene should no longer follow its political representatives as homogenously as it once did. But it is only superficially about the rejected from Greece state name of the Republic of Macedonia. In addition to the amendment to "Republic of North Macedonia", the Prespa Agreement provides, in particular, for the term "Macedonian" to refer only to the territory of North Macedonia. However, "Macedonia" geographically covers a much larger area than today's Republic, especially today's northern Greece. The term “Macedonian” as a term for an independent population together with its language and culture, which has developed in this area....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of Macedonia’s most controversial politicians is under new scrutiny following the failed referendum of 30 September- Radmila Sekerinska, the current Defence Minister and onetime protégé of Branko Crvenkovski, SDSM’s (Macedonian Social Democratic Union) founding leader way back in the 1990s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although a darling of the West for many years, Sekerinska has long been heavily criticised and even mocked at home. Many of her foreign admirers seem, ironically, unaware of this. The US sees her as more competent than Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev; a safer pair of hands so to speak. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see link </span><a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-4-spooky.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that the 30 September referendum on the Prespa Agreement has failed (link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/10/macedonias-referendum-farce.html">here</a>), it is time to take a look in the mirror – is it possible that Radmila Sekerinska’s unpopularity among Macedonians would have something to do with the referendum’s failure?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, TEAM UZUNOV can report that the knives are out for Sekerinska within her own party. A former apparatchik from the SDSM’s 2002-2006 government, who has knowledge of the current goings-on in SDSM, told TEAM UZUNOV that “if Zaev and Sekerinska fail to push the constitutional changes through parliament to please their Western backers, both of them may be replaced:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is common knowledge among Macedonians that the unpopular prime minister, Zoran Zaev, may be risking his political future with the failed name-change referendum. But until recently, the continued rise to power of his defence minister – who many believe is the real leader of the country – was ‘safe’ from any fallout of the referendum’s failure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the old political apparatchik tells TEAM UZUNOV, “no one is safe, there are new generations coming up, and a lot of people in SDSM intensely dislike or are jealous of Rada for how specially she is treated by Western diplomats.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, another Macedonian source with close ties to the US Embassy also tells TEAM UZUNOV that “the Americans were happy to let her become defence minister when Zaev came to power, but they were irritated that she did not hire two or three specific people into that ministry, who are under American patronage.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There may be something to this, as TEAM UZUNOV clearly touched a nerve by simply asking her a simple question at a government press conference on the night of the failed referendum. The revealing footage reveals the two-sided nature of Sekeinska- going in mere seconds from smiling diplomat to angry politician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the clip, which received over 8,000 views on YouTube in one day alone, Sekerinska piles on the charm with select foreign journalists, while refusing to answer a fundamental question about who wrote the Prespa Agreement- the basic document on which the Macedonian voters were voting that Sunday. Bizarrely, the defence minister lashed out to the camera that ‘you’re threatening me’ and that ‘this is the third time’ you have asked the question. Of course, neither of these claims were true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While TEAM UZUNOV has asked the question about Prespa’s authorship to Minister of Justice Renata Deskoska and US Ambassador Jess Baily, we had never until that moment addressed this key question to Sekerinska. Her infuriated and out of protocol remarks indicated that Macedonia’s ‘golden girl’ may be becoming a giant liability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crucially this is occurring at a moment of great controversy- as the government continues trying to thwart the public will by pushing through legislation that would see a majority of MPs vote through constitutional amendments in order to railroad through the same Prespa Agreement concessions to Greece that was rejected at referendum by a resounding 63 percent of Macedonian voters. The voters followed the logic of a new protest group Bojkotiram. The group claims on social media that a British company called Stratagem is trying to bribe the vital few MPs from opposition VMRO-DPMNE, to the tune of 250,000 euros each, so they will vote yes on the SDSM government’s amendments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sekerinska’s mother worked for the state electricity company ELEM, during the post-Yugoslav transition period when it was divided up partly sold to foreign investors. Macedonians have dubbed these kind of shady privatisations as ‘bonbona business’ (hinting at the massive kickbacks and bribes the 1990s privatisations brought). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sekerinska’s husband, Bozidar Jankovski, has long had the nickname ‘Bobo Diners’ for his longstanding role as director of Diner’s Club Macedonia. Bizarrely, he was one of the many politicians and others briefly pardoned by President Gjorge Ivanov in April 2016. It is still unknown why he was on the list with politicians like Nikola Gruevski and Zoran Zaev but according to media reports, like most of those he made a written request to the president to be un-pardoned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Radmila Sekerinska gained altitude as a leading politician faster than an astronaut launcing into orbit. The meteoric rise in power of the admittedly clever and talented Sekerinska was thus hardly accidental-being part of the Yugoslav communist elite has been a ticket to luxury living for many Macedonians with ties to Tito’s former regime, political functions, companies, UDBA secret service and so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But though this family background would be enough to enter politics (firstly, as protégé of Branko Crvenkovski, SDSM founder and heir to the communist legacy). Indeed at the tender age of 26, she became Branko’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Coordination of Foreign Assistance, serving until the SDSM was booted out of power by VMRO-DPMNE in 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s therefore not puzzling in the slightest that Sekerinska was specifically chosen as an American pet- a role she has held for well over a decade. This is clearly obvious from her key position when SDSM was in opposition both before and after the political crisis that started in 2015, coinciding with the arrival of the highly unpopular American ambassador, Jess Baily. In fact some of the clearest indications of this come from the American official documents themselves as revealed in leaked Wikileaks cables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact that Sekerinska was on the State Department and CIA radar is confirmed by none other than Wikileaks. A US Embassy Skopje cable dated 10 January 2007 lists Sekerinska as one of the ‘five most influential women in Macedonia.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cable recalls that the then-34 year old Sekerinska, an electrical engineer by training, had until 2006 been Crvenkovski’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration. Many Macedonians put Sekerinska in the category of those loathed politicians who have ‘never worked a day in their lives.’ Indeed the cable states that “she has been prominent in politics since 1998, when she was elected an SDSM Member of Parliament and served as the SDSM Spokesperson.” In other words, this descendent of prominent communist-era officials had a path to power ready and waiting for her, being elected to parliament at the tender age of 25.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another Wikileaks cable, written by then Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic on 14 November 2006, discusses Sekerinska’s victory at the SDSM’s party congress held days before. It lays out in plain writing what many Macedonians have long known. It says that Sekerinska had “long been considered the heir apparent and who enjoyed the strong support of President Crvenkovski.” In typical communist style, she was the only candidate for party leadership: Sekerinska “won easily, receiving 456 votes of the 516 ballots cast.” One of the SDSM vice-president’s elected at the congress, Jani Makraduli, remained a party apparatchik through the recent crisis and was already very close to Sekerinska at the time she became SDSM president in November 2006. Indeed the US cable states that Makraduli was so closely aligned with Sekerinska that “he was her witness at her recent marriage. (As of 2018, Makraduli is deputy minister of environment in the Zaev-Sekerinska government). see link <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06SKOPJE1090_a.html">here </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In revealing language about SDSM’s future stepping ‘out of Crvenkovski’s shadow’ the US ambassador writes that “although Sekerinska's rise to power in the party owes much to Crvenkovski's support, that does not necessarily mean she will repay the favor with blind loyalty to him and his circle. “Indeed the cunning politician, the Americans estimated, was “likely to work to escape Crvenkovski’s shadow in order to strengthen her own control over the rank and file and implement the party reforms she has advocated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All in all it’s clear that the US focused its efforts on building up the career of the new opposition leader to make a break with the past- something that insiders today have told TEAM UZUNOV the US is cynically prepared to do as well- but with Sekerinska this time getting the “Branko treatment.” In fact, this is what the former SDSM official had to say: “if Zaev and Sekerinska fail, she will probably be removed in a ‘nice’ way, by getting some important post in NATO or the UN as a compensation for losing the referendum.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The US cable of November 2006 also showed high hopes for the newly elected prime minister from VMRO-DPMNE, another American puppet, Nikola Gruevski. It says that he “likely would jump at the chance to widen any gap between Sekerinska and Crvenkovski, given his long-standing disdain for the President and refusal to recognise Crvenkovski's election as legitimate. Sekerinska may therefore find a more flexible, compromise-ready government ally will give her the leverage she needs to increase the distance between her and Crvenkovski.” Ironically, while Gruevski later became Enemy Number 1 of the US for his independent minded stance and nationalist views, Sekerinska became ever closer to Western ambitions for Macedonia’s future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of the controversy over the recently failed Prespa Agreement was the SDSM government’s agreement with the Tsipras government on renaming the country ‘North Macedonia,’ and the ethnicity as ‘citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia’ rather than ‘Macedonian.’ This is a clear and cynical attempt by SDSM, as many have pointed to blur the lines between the definitions of the words ‘citizenship and ‘nationality.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 2008 cable (from the Athens US Embassy, the then Greek PM Karamanlis indicated that the idea was already being floated. Karamanlis blamed the Macedonians for the usual “intransigence” but said that: “a mutually acceptable solution -- which could include a composite name of "New, Upper, North, whatever Macedonia" for use in international fora and another name (i.e., the constitutional name) for internal use -- had to be found now before the NATO Bucharest summit or Greece would not approve FYROM's entry into Euro-Atlantic institutions.” These Greek demands violated Macedonia’s (until Zaev) red lines. see link <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08ATHENS21_a.html">here </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The West has propped up and sponsored a politician, in Radmila Sekerinska, who knows just what to say and how to say it to Brussels bigwigs and Washington head honcos, but is mostly mocked and reviled in her home country. The fact is, the average man on the street sees her as dismissive, often arrogant tone, superiority complex, and attempts to curry favour with foreign luminaries through artificial politeness. She is considered a political cynic who would sees benefit when her own party colleagues are criticised (most recently, Zoran Zaev with his high-profile role in the political crisis) to advance her own interests indirectly. This is possibly because she learned the hard way that her own lack of charisma and popularity were negatively impacting her ambitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was seen when as party president in the 2008 elections, she came up with the disastrous campaign advert that literally states the Macedonian phrase, ‘posle ebenje, nema kaenje.’ (a vulgar term meaning ’no regrets after f**king.’ The video clip of 27 May 27 2008 aired in television, bewildering older voters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the spot, a young woman is depicted waking up next to a young man, looking in apparent horror at him as if wondering what she had done the night before. When the girl tells him to leave, the young man says he will spend the next four years with her. The point Sekerinska was cynically trying to make was that voters would regret it if they voted to re-elect VMRO-DPMNE. But for critics the whole concept just reaffirmed the popular view of Sekerinska as a cold and cynical politician, and her party was decisively defeated at the election.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR RADMILA SEKERINSKA?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact of the matter is that the West, and Branko Crvenkovski before that, groomed this heir to communist patronage from a very early age to become Macedonia’s main international power broker. But despite all the rhetoric and free rides, she has failed to deliver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was seen in the above mentioned 2008 elections, where she failed to unseat Gruevski. The results for SDSM were so bad that Branko Crvenkovski took over (after stepping down from the national presidency) for the 2011 elections, with SDSM also lost. When Zaev became SDSM president, and also lost the 2014 elections in humiliating fashion, Sekerinska got a second chance to prove her value to the Western powers with the political crisis and name change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That opportunity hangs in the balance now, with the name change referendum failure marking the possible end for the Macedonian ‘golden girl.’ In her heart of hearts, Radmila Sekerinska already knows that all Macedonian politicians are inserted by the US, and all are removed when they have served their purpose or fallen out of favour- as is seen by the fates of the like of Branko Crvenkovski, Ljubco Georgievski, Nikola Gruevski and so on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the day, the failed referendum of 30 September- itself based on name issue ideas at least a decade old- may also prove to be a referendum on the politicians who made the deal with Greece. The US and its European allies have spent millions and lavished all sorts of favours on making Sekerinska Macedonia’s most powerful politician. But America’s patience does not last forever. Should SDSM fail to deliver, it’s likely that none of its leaders will be safe. But someone like Sekerinska, with longtime international contacts, she will probably have a soft landing- continuing her charmed existence in an international organisation somewhere outside of Macedonia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2010 during a heated and emotional debate between Sekerinska and Serbian nationalist politician Ivan Stoiljkovic, a Macedonian MP, Stoijlkovic accused Sekerinska of being anti Serb. In reaction to the accusation, Sekerinska, a social democrat who publicly criticises nationalism, deliberately played the Serb nationalist card on Stoijlkovic by emphasising her Serb background and gave a pledge not to harm the interests of the local Serb community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In over 20 years of political life she has never held a protest against Serbian nationalism outside the Serbian Embassy in Skopje, not even when the US Embassy in Macedonia was set a light in 1999 by Serb extremists linked to the Milosevic regime.</span><br />
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<b>You could argue her behaviour is racist towards ethnic Macedonians. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/04/sekerinska-racial-discrimination.html">here</a> </b></span><br />
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<b>US PLAYING OFF ETHNIC HATREDS AS A STRATEGY?</b></span><br />
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<b>One of the questions that TEAM UZUNOV posed to US Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Jess Baily, was the US deliberately using ethnic hatreds as a political weapon to attack native ethnic Macedonian identity. It was a question the Ambassador declined to answer. see link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-questions-about.html">here</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 27 April 2017, Sekerinska who has attacked native Macedonian statues is attacked in Macedonian Parliament by angry native ethnic Macedonians. Macedonians are labelled “nationalist.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strange paradox. in fact hypocrisy. The man who attacked her was justifiably jailed for assault.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t get me wrong, I don’t advocate violence and both incidents of violence are wrong. But note the selectivity by the West.</span><br />
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The French have also invested heavily in Radmila Sekerinska, so much so they have decorated her with a high state award amongst deliberate fanfare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But you’ll note in the story below from earlier this year how the French Ambassador to Macedonia Mr Charles Thimonier waited many weeks until he had decorated Sekerinska first before responding to questions about her and then declined to comment. see link<a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/06/french-ambassador-says-non-comment-for.html"> here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THE WOMAN OF MANY FACES</b>: one minute she is the consummate “internationalist,” next playing the Serb nationalist card, now a firm supporter of the controversial and so called “Good Neighbourly Agreement” between Bulgaria and Macedonia, which in effect means the end of a separate Macedonian identity as a the price for Bulgarian support for Macedonia to join NATO and the EU. (link to Good Neighbourly Agreement story <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/07/bulgarian-agreement-dagger-at.html">here</a>). She is pictured below with Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Kressmir Karakachanov (left), a right wing nationalist who denies the existence of a separate Macedonian identity, and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, whose coalition government includes neo Nazi leader Volen Siderov of the notorious ATAKA party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And not to mention her support of the outrageous Prespa Agreement...(link to Prespa Agreement story <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here</a>) which turns Macedonia into a de facto Greek Hellenic Hong Kong.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TEAM UZUNOV contacted Ms Sekerinska a number of times via email to her officer and text message to her advisors with questions but has never received a response:</span></b><br />
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From: Sasha Uzunov <sashauzunov hotmail.com=""></sashauzunov><br />
Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2018 9:30 AM<br />
To: kabinetMO@morm.gov.mk<br />
Subject: Media query - Defence Minister Sekerinska<br />
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Subject: media questions for Macedonia's Defence Minister Ms Radmila Sekerinska<br />
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Dear Minister Sekerinska<br />
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My name is Sasha Uzunov, an Australian journalist who was recently in Macedonia. I have worked in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am also a former Australian soldier.<br />
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I wanted to ask you some questions:<br />
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1. In 2010 you made a bizarre statement during a heated debate with Serb Nationalist MP Ivan Stoijlkovic where you declared your Serbian background. Isn't this strange or contradictory for someone who claims to be a social democratic and who campaigns against "nationalism?" Why was it important for you to boast of your Serbianess if you as a politician criticise so called Macedonian nationalism?<br />
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2. On your official Defence Ministry website, your biography makes no mention of your Serbian background. Why is that?<br />
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3. There is a public perception amongst many Macedonians you are a Serb chauvinist who attacks native Macedonian statues and who is culturally insensitive. What is your response to this? You have never protested against Serb nationalism outside the Serb Embassy in Skopje yet you throw paint at Macedonian statues? Do you have a conflict of interest?<br />
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4. In South Africa white politicians are very carefully or sensitive in their criticisms of native Black African identity for fear of being branded a racist. Bearing in mind that Serbia was the former brutal colonial ruler in Macedonia (1912-41) and played a hegemonistic role in Tito's Yugoslavia, should you being of Serb background refrain from attacking Macedonian statues in case you are accused of racism, chauvinism against native ethnic Macedonians ? <br />
Link: https://www.google.com.au/amp/amp.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1541843/full-helen-zille-apologises-colonialism-tweets/<br />
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5. The German Deputy Ambassador Mr Marco Acquaticci has responded to concerns over controversial Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in western Macedonia. You have remained silent instead attacking Macedonian statues. Why is that?<br />
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http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi.html?m=1<br />
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Yours sincerely<br />
Sasha Uzunov<br />
Journalist / filmmaker<br />
Australia<br />
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<b>Sasha Uzunov</b><br />
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REFERENDUM FARCE - the flop being hailed as a “success’ </b>- we’ve all had over 24 hours to digest the outcome of Macedonia’s failed referendum held on Sunday 30 September, which is what it was despite the deliberate spin from the Zaev government and its foreign backers, namely US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily.<br />
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By the Macedonia criterion for referenda, it did not reach the required 50% threshold of eligible voters needed but fell far short. The non-binding referendum question posed to voters was “are you in favour of the European Union and NATO membership by accepting the agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece?”<br />
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If you do a break down of the figures - 36.9% of eligible voters turned out and 94.18% voted in favour. Rough arithmetic that’s about 25 to 30% of all eligible voters voted in favour of the referendum. Simply put the vast majority of Macedonians and even a sizeable number of ethnic Albanians don’t want to change Macedonia’s name.<br />
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Regardless of how people voted or didn’t vote, what can’t be ignored is there was a movement/s dedicating to boycotting the referendum. If a large number of people didn’t turn out then that must be attributed to this movement. Obviously, regular voting patterns in Macedonia can’t be ignored.<br />
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According to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, whose reporting has been skewed in favour of the Prespa Agreement:<br />
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“Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said the result is enough indication of support from the electorate for him to continue to push for implementation of the deal”<br />
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“MPs now have an obligation to make Macedonia a better place for all of us,” Zaev told reporters late on Sunday” - see link <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/macedonia-greece-name-deal-what-happens-next/a-45709226">here </a><br />
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So it’s now hard for PM Zaev to claim a moral mandate over the main Opposition party VMRO-DPMNE led by Christian Mickovski to support the Prespa Agreement through a parliamentary vote.<br />
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Zaev needs a two-thirds majority - 80 out of 120 MPs to vote in favour. At the moment he doesn't have the numbers. But has stubbornly vowed to push on and change Macedonia’s name and backed by the EU and the US who have hailed the referendum flop a “success.”<br />
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<b>2004 MACEDONIA REFERENDUM JUXTAPOSITION - The US State Department letter reveals the real reasons for the US recognising Macedonia in 2004: to kill off a referendum that would if successful oppose the territorial reorganisation of Macedonia - the objective of the reorganisation was to lead to municipalities with artificially constructed Albanian majorities and place the country onto the path of de facto federalisation. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/uk-rancour-over-macedonia-name-change.html">here</a> </b><br />
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We’ve seen enormous contradictions over the Prespa Agreement, the basis for the referendum on 30 September 2018. This controversial deal aims to change Macedonia’s name and identity to appease Greek nationalist demands in exchange for Greece removing its veto over Macedonia’s NATO and EU membership. It’s simply for US strategic needs - meaning to keep Washington's longtime ally Greece happy but it’s been dressed up as being favourable to Macedonia. see link<a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html"> here</a><br />
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The standard mantra from the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who immediately after the referendum flop broke a promise that he would resign if it failed, is the Prespa Agreement was the best possible deal that Macedonia could get and was the result of Greek and Macedonian compromise.<br />
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<b>TENSIONS & CONTRADICTIONS OVER THE PRESPA AGREEMENT</b><br />
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One of his senior cabinet ministers, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska doesn't even know who wrote the agreement, which is an incredible and embarrassing admission to make.<br />
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Macedonia’s Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska, when asked if an American academic and ex US State Department official Dr Amanda Sloat was the real author, exploded with inexplicable rage.<br />
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The woman who is alleged to have put the agreement together, Dr Sloat, has remained silent despite being contacted and asked to set the record straight.<br />
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What is telling is the US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily after also being asked to comment more than a month go if there was any US involvement behind the scenes declined at that time until he was confronted at a doorstop interview yesterday where he gave an answer after an OSCE post referendum media conference. The OSCE was tasked in monitoring the referendum for any irregularities.<br />
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Ambassador Baily was asked at point blank about Dr Sloat’s involvement. In an amazing display after deliberately walking past in an attempt to ignore the question he decided to comeback and stand his ground and answer the question in which he maintained the mantra of it - the Prespa Agreement - being the product of Greek-Macedonian negotiations.<br />
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It would have looked horrible if the man who has staked his diplomatic career on the Prespa Agreement was seen to run away from it.<br />
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This isn’t Ambassador Baily first time to dodge a question over the controversial agreement.<br />
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If it takes all of this effort just to get a response over the Prespa Agreement - using pliers to extract words out of key people’s mouths figuratively speaking - despite all the positive spin placed on it then this suggests there is clearly something wrong with it.<br />
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The US is riding roughshod over Macedonia’s sovereignty by Ambassador Baily taking such an “active” role in now pushing the Prespa Agreement through the parliament after the failed referendum.<br />
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Support for the US Macedonia was historically high especially amongst the diaspora - that has dropped remarkably because of the antics of Ambassador Baily and without Russian strongman Putin needing to lift a finger.<br />
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<br />TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-53539603314367616692018-09-26T21:52:00.001+10:002018-10-10T18:40:49.174+11:00THE BAILY ULTIMATUM PART 4- SPOOKY SHENANIGANS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fourth and Final part in the series examining US Ambassador Jess Baily’s controversial role in Macedonia<br />
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The Baily Ultimatum - Part 4<br />
<b>ARMED INTERFERENCE? SPOOKY SHENANIGANS FROM THE KALE (U.S. EMBASSY) AND ADVISORS</b><br />
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<b>by Sasha Uzunov</b><br />
<b>Skopje, Macedonia</b><br />
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Among the 23 questions (see Part 1) that Ambassador Baily dismissed as ‘bullshit’ and failed to answer, is the following:<br />
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<b>Did any US Embassy officials counsel Zoran Zaev in his approach to phrasing the words of the paper he signed to win the mandate from President Ivanov? If so, what did they do?</b><br />
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The truth is that the Americans have constantly mentored the SDSM leader – a former mayor from the provincial town of Strumica – as they sought to make him fit for the role of international statesman. This process has included increasingly frequent trips to foreign capitals, and a noticeable improvement in his English-language skills over the past three years. However, lurking closely behind the scenes is the Defence Minister, Radmila Sekerinska, who is popularly understood to be the real brains behind the government. This American pet was isolated in an Embassy diplomatic cable over a decade ago as one of the top five most powerful women in Macedonia. After the referendum, she is expected by many pundits to take on an important international job, perhaps in the United Nations or elsewhere in relation to EU structures as a reward for helping Macedonia change its name.<br />
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None of that would be possible, of course, without a Zaev government and that brings the strange story of The Baily Ultimatum full circle, back to the summer of 2016. Following the 27 April 2017 storming of parliament put an end to three months of protests against the Tirana Platform, foreign officials put overpowering pressure on Macedonian leaders – particularly, President George Ivanov – to grant Zaev a mandate to form a government. However, the president would not do so unless Zaev dropped the racist and chauvinistic Tirana Platform backed by his crew of ethnic Albanian parties, that discriminated against Macedonian and all other ethnic populations in Macedonia and contradicted former U.S. policy as well.<br />
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There was considerable scepticism that Ivanov would back down, with some media speculating that he would declare martial law rather than give Zaev a mandate. In the end, they were wrong, as the president finally caved in to the pressure. However, he required a written guarantee that the new coalition would uphold the constitutional order because the Tirana Agreement violated it on constitutional grounds. That’s where the US Embassy came in. According to several informed sources, US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm--pictured above with President Ivanov and who is more than just a US State Department diplomat--and now-resigned US Embassy political officer David Stephenson played key roles in shepherding Zaev through the process of going through drafts of the memo.<br />
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However, the Americans panicked at one point, a fired Macedonian intelligence officer tells TEAM UZUNOV: “they were on and off the phone with Zaev constantly as his team and the president’s team went through competing drafts… the Americans were very surprised and dismayed by Zaev because he signed the final agreement as ‘we’ on behalf of his whole coalition, rather than ‘I’ on behalf of himself. It is still not clear why they had this obsession, but maybe if the whole agreement fell apart and DUI or others were angry, then the Americans could easily replace Zaev with [Radmila] Sekerinska [now Defence Minister], pictured above, who they respect more anyway.”<br />
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TEAM UZUNOV has published here, possibly the first time, the actual agreement as would be signed by Zaev. With the referendum coming up soon, it is shocking evidence that he has violated his mandate to form a government in almost every way. A careful reading of the document shows precisely why the government’s negotiated position with Greece, its referendum, actions against the media and some economic decisions are exactly counter to the agreement. However, to this day the president has not said a word about the violations and it is likely that he, along with VMRO-DPMNE politicians and others, are under tremendous pressure to toe the American line. The recent talk of possible border changes between Serbia and Kosovo – which would inevitably result in talk of the same for Macedonia – is being held like a sword over leaders’ heads by the US and EU.<br />
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But the American involvement with Zaev’s government did not end with its creation- that was just the beginning. In spring of this year, as negotiations with Greece under the auspices of longtime UN negotiator Matthew Nimitz got serious, the Embassy brought in some big guns. In another question that Ambassador Baily would not answer, TEAM UZUNOV got feedback from the Macedonian-American lobbyist based in Washington. According to him, “much of what you know as the Prespa Agreement, allegedly written by Greek and Macedonia officials, was actually written at the Brookings Institute in the US.”<br />
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<b>AMANDA SLOAT - was she the shooter ? more on Amanda Sloat’s role at this link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/was-she-shooter-behind-prespa-agreement.html">here</a></b><br />
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More specifically, the source told TEAM UZUNOV, the key activity was done by Dr. Amanda Sloat, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center for the U.S. and Europe at the influential American thinktank.<br />
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Like many of the others lurking in any around Macedonia during its three-year political crisis, Sloat has ties to the former Obama Administration: she was the deputy assistant secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department, where she was responsible for U.S. relations with Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey as well as for coordinating European engagement on Middle East issues. Previously she worked on other issues, like Britain, Scotland Northern Ireland, but by working on Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey throughout the entire Obama Administration, Sloat would have worked closely with Jess Baily, who came to Macedonia after serving for several years as Deputy Chief of Mission in Ankara. Considering his behavior in Macedonia, it’s no surprise to know that Baily was also considered as controversial by the Turkish government during his time there.<br />
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According to this Washington source, the US administration used Brookings as a “side office” for creation of the Prespa Agreement. “Sloat was included in the draft text given on May 24 to Greek Foreign Minister Kotzias in Washington DC,” the diaspora official told TEAM UZUNOV. “The basic agreement was reached on both sides the next day in the UN.”<br />
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<b>THE COUP DE’GRACE- USAID FUNDING NOW BEING USED TO SHORE UP THE REFERENDUM</b><br />
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The kicker in all this, coming back to the fast-approaching referendum, is that the supposedly apolitical USAID funding managed through Ambassador Baily’s State Department and Embassy cronies, is still being clearly used for political purposes- that is, supporting a ‘yes’ vote on the referendum in favour of a Prespa Agreement that the Macedonians and Greeks didn’t even write!<br />
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TEAM UZUNOV here reproduces a document from the CEPS program, that reveals the official request for applicants for four ‘Rapid Response Grants’ with an application date of 31 July, 2018. This indicates that the USAID’s ‘flagship program’ had been strategically picked for siphoning off votes in favor of the referendum – possibly, even before the Prespa Agreement was formally signed in Greece on 17 June.<br />
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According to the USAID document, the four grants would be of $7,500 US Dollars each, and would be used “to support the initiatives that focus on the upcoming referendum.” Further, the USAID document states that referendum-education focus of grant winners should be “youth, women, minorities, the disabled and those outside the capital.” The project applicants are suggested to apply for grants with projects of between 3-6 months. Hypothetically, this would have to mean that USAID was already expecting to do not only pre- but also post-referendum brainwashing on the Macedonian population, after 30 September.<br />
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It will come as no surprise to readers of TEAM UZUNOV’s 2017 expose of the East-West Management Institute and its ties to the so-called National Youth Council, and Soros-related NGOs like Metamorphosis and the Association for Democratic Initiatives, and the ‘big daddy’ of them all, the Foundation Open Society in Macedonia (FOSIM)- George Soros’ international franchise which operates worldwide wherever ‘democracy-building’ needs to take place. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html">here</a><br />
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In the end, by using his Washington connections and some ‘heavy lifting’ by the likes of USAID’s “secret operations unit’ the Office of Transition Initiative (OTI), Ambassador Jess Baily was able to get out of trouble in 2017- and stick around to see his ultimatum to Macedonia finally fulfilled with the referendum on the Prespa Agreement on 30 September 2018, which will change the country’s name to satisfy the nationalist appetites of US allies - Macedonia’s neighbours and long standing negators - Greece, Bulgaria and Albanian at Macedonia’s expense. It’s the old taking the path of least resistance. That’s what it all comes down to. Easier to Washington to sacrifice Macedonia than have to deal with a hostile Greece, Bulgaria and Albanian political factor - US clients nonetheless.<br />
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The name of the game is to get Macedonia into NATO and the EU to deny the Russians any opening in the Balkans. But that premise is faulty to begin with. Macedonia since its independence in 1991 from Yugoslavia has been under US’s patronage. The 2001 ethnic Albanian war in Macedonia and the 2003 Khaled El Masri rendition scandal, just to name two of many examples, hammers home the US’s vice like control of events in Macedonia.<br />
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The new moniker Republic of North Macedonia and erasing Macedonian identity, if it comes to pass, will be the legacy of the Baily Ultimatum !<br />
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THE BAILY ULTIMATUM PART 1- link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-questions-about.html">here</a><br />
THE BAILY ULTIMATUM PART 2 - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-2-bringing-heat.html">here</a><br />
THE BAILY ULTIMATUM PART 3 - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-2-bringing-heat.html">here</a><br />
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<b>Canadian Macedonia pundit Mark Branov’s 2017 analysis about where powers really rests in Macedonia has turned out to be correct and highly applicable even to events relating to the controversial 2018 name change referendum.</b><br />
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A former US State Department official may have been the academic gun for hire, the shooter, behind the controversial Prespa Agreement, signed by both Greece and Macedonia, which aims to change Macedonia’s name and identity, according to an influential American Macedonian lobbyist with ties to US politicians.<br />
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According to him, “much of what you know as the Prespa Agreement, allegedly written by Greek and Macedonia officials, was actually written at the Brookings Institute in the US.”<br />
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More specifically, the source told TEAM UZUNOV, the key activity was done by Dr. Amanda Sloat, a Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, one of the influential American think tanks. see link <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/experts/amanda-sloat/">here</a><br />
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Like many of the others lurking in any around Macedonia during its three-year political crisis, Sloat has ties to the former Obama Administration: she was the deputy assistant secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department, where she was responsible for U.S. relations with Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey as well as for coordinating European engagement on Middle East issues.<br />
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Previously she worked on other issues, like Britain, Scotland Northern Ireland, but by working on Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey throughout the entire Obama Administration, Sloat would have worked closely with now US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily, who came to Macedonia after serving for several years as Deputy Chief of Mission in Ankara. Considering his behavior in Macedonia, it’s no surprise to know that Baily was also considered as controversial by the Turkish government during his time there.<br />
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According to this Washington source, the US administration used Brookings as a “side office” for creation of the Prespa Agreement. “Sloat was included in the draft text given on May 24 to Greek Foreign Minister Kotzias in Washington DC,” the diaspora official told TEAM UZUNOV. “The basic agreement was reached on both sides the next day in the UN.”<br />
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It was made to appear that it had been the work of both Greece and Macedonia, without any foreign interference.<br />
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TEAM UZUNOV blog has contacted Dr Sloat via email and telephone and left a message with her Personal Assistant at the Brookings Institute, Mr Ted Reinert, who said he had no inkling of any involvement of Dr Sloat with the Prespa Agreement. Should Dr Sloat reply, TEAM UZUNOV will publish the response.<br />
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<b>TEAM UZUNOV BLOG releases emails</b><br />
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- one sent to US Ambassador Jess Baily- about Dr Amanda Sloat, ex US State Department official, asking if she is the real author of the Prespa Agreement.<br />
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Original email sent to Dr Sloat and a follow up to her Personal Assistant Mr Ted Reinert at the Brookings Institute. (please note the hotmail account is set to Australian Eastern time +8 hours from Macedonia).<br />
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Macedonian senior government minister, Justice portfolio, Mrs Renata Deskoska, says she doesn’t know who wrote the Prespa Agreement and won’t comment on claims that former US State Department official Dr Amanda Sloat is said to be the real author.<br />
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<b>- background story in part 4 of The BAILY ULTIMATUM link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-4-spooky.html">here</a> -</b><br />
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<b>The Role of Controversial US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily examined in a series of articles:</b><br />
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<b>PART 1 - The Baily Ultimatum - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-questions-about.html">here</a> </b><br />
<b>PART 2 - The Baily Ultimatum - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-2-bringing-heat.html">here</a> </b><br />
<b>PART 3 - The Baily Ultimatum - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-3-oti-regime.html">here</a></b><br />
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<b>The Prespa Agreement story link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here</a> </b></div>
TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-57061952747962070502018-09-24T20:30:00.001+10:002018-09-24T20:43:09.482+10:00THE BAILY ULTIMATUM - PART 3: O.T.I. REGIME CHANGE UNIT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>by Sasha Uzunov</b><br />
<b>Skopje, Macedonia</b><br />
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PART 1 - THE BAILY ULTIMATUM - Questions about Macedonia -link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-questions-about.html">here </a><br />
PART 2 - THE BAILY ULTIMATUM - Bringing the Heat -link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-2-bringing-heat.html">here</a><br />
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As TEAM UZUNOV has revealed, the U.S. State Department has officially claimed that its funding to NGOs and general activities of USAID in Macedonia are all above-board, both in public statements and official letters to legislators. Since Ambassador Baily did not respond to TEAM UZUNOV’s questions, we have to assume he shares that opinion.<br />
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However, there is one lingering scandal that has been an open secret in Macedonia, discussed in the local media for over two years- though oddly enough, nowhere else in the world. This is in reference to USAID’s semi-secret ‘regime change’ unit, Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), which was created by former President Clinton in the 1990s to give a ‘rapid reaction’ capacity to USAID activities. In reality, it is somewhat a combination between the Peace Corps and the CIA, and in Macedonia has come under severe ridicule while causing great stress among embassy bigwigs.<br />
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OTI has gotten into trouble before, as a 2014 Guardian report disclosed its secret plan to build a ‘Cuban Twitter’ first of all, seeming innocuous, but with definite regime change goals. The article reads:<br />
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‘Documents show the US government planned to build a subscriber base through "non-controversial content": news messages on soccer, music, and hurricane updates. Later when the network reached a critical mass of subscribers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organise “smart mobs” — mass gatherings called at a moment’s notice that might trigger a Cuban spring, or, as one USAid document put it, “renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society.” - link to Guardian article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest">here</a><br />
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To organise the OTI Cuba operation, the newspaper said, required much mischief: “to hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruit unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the company’s ties to the US government.”<br />
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A very similar thing happened in Macedonia, under the purview of Ambassador Baily. Given his failure to respond to TEAM UZUNOV’s questions, it is unclear who requested the mission- which was definitely not specified anywhere in the July 2015 Przino Agreement for reforms, signed by Macedonia’s four major political parties.<br />
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<b>-(The OTI Macedonia keeps an official webpage here: www.usaid.gov/political-transition-initiatives/macedonia)</b><br />
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OTI was used in the Balkans before, such as to help take down Milosevic.<br />
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All that is known for sure is that by September of 2015, USAID in Washington DC was holding secretive job interviews for a mission in Macedonia. This would infer that the background plan for the program had been made earlier- possibly even before the controversial July Przino Agreement, which itself was signed only five months after tennis playing Ambassador Baily’s deployment to the Macedonian theatre.<br />
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<b>SECRET CLEARANCE NEEDED FOR AID WORK? - Handing out pens, brochures ? Unless of course it’s not aid work?</b><br />
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Although USAID has always claimed its programs for civil engagement, media and NGOs are benign and harmless one has to wonder why (according to an official job application form for the position), a Security Clearance-level Secret is required.<b> ( Request for Personal Services Contractor - see below).</b><br />
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To cover its tracks locally, OTI contractors were hired through the Washington firm AECOM, given a separate address, and kept away from Baily and other prominent Embassy persons.<br />
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Even stranger, the USAID head in Macedonia (then, James Stein) sent official requests to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a Special Identity Card for OTI contractors, not the typical residency or work ID that most foreigners get. They do this, it is believed, to make sure OTI staff qualify for some kind of diplomatic immunity- even though they are private contractors and not diplomats.<br />
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Although Macedonian government officials and intelligence services clearly knew all about the OTI’s activities in organising concerts, working on political radio shows, youth networking throughout the country, etc., they gave the operators a wide berth, fearing to upset their American overlords.<br />
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However, at times this was humiliating: a former intelligence official fired after the coming of the SDSM government tells TEAM UZUNOV that “the OTI operators were directly involved with the Colourful Revolution organising… we saw them literally going into the shop to buy the paint that the Soros activists would then throw at monuments- but never Albanian monuments, of course.”<br />
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This direct involvement of USAID operators with violent activists during 2016 was one of the many questions that Ambassador Baily refused to answer when asked by TEAM UZUNOV. The Colourful Revolution crowd – composed of hard-leftists as well as political opportunists and pro-Belgrade chauvinists – used a cut-and-paste communist rhetoric, street protests and signs that echoed the catchphrase used by Soros-funded groups like Black Lives Matter in the USA (‘No Justice, No Peace,’ or ‘Nema Pravda, Nema Mir’ in Macedonian)<br />
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Although Macedonia successfully created a new government and now seems on the verge of changing its name in the controversial referendum of 30 September 2018, OTI lingers on in Skopje. There’s a comical contrast between what the OTI says of itself on its ‘highlights’ page and what local information obtained by TEAM UZUNOV discovered. See link <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/political-transition-initiatives/macedonia">here</a><br />
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As for the official ‘highlights,’ the above-cited official OTI website lists activities that are suspiciously to the Cuba model- that is they seem innocuous but have a political goal. They are:<br />
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<b>Professionalising the Macedonia media environment.</b> USAID/OTI supported the creation of political debate show “Only the Truth” as part of a wider media portfolio. The show presents civil dialogue and diverse viewpoints on critical issues affecting Macedonians. ”Only the Truth” has succeeded in presenting issues in a non-partisan way, changing perceptions of the media environment in Macedonia.<br />
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Promoting citizen participation in public discourse. Activities such as “Transforming Public Spaces” use the arts to create social change by promoting discussions that encourage citizens to engage in positive actions in their communities. <br />
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Supporting key institutions to implement critical reforms, consistent with EU standards. The Government of Macedonia, governed by a new coalition, is undertaking a bold and long-overdue set of legislative, policy and systemic reforms. USAID/OTI is providing assistance to reorganise, equip and enable key sectors of the Macedonian government, better positioning it to advance the democratic reform process.<br />
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Despite these optimistic words, TEAM UZUNOV found that Macedonians themselves felt differently. During the 2016 period of peak activity/Colourful Revolution, a few journalists (most notably, Mirka Velinovska of the long-running newspaper Dnevnik) lampooned OTI and its activities. However, since SDSM took power, the long-running newspaper was shut down and no media criticism of the powerful American regime-change operation can be found.<br />
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Velinovska lost valuable traction after becoming obsessed with the catchy phrase of The Umbrella (chadorot) to describe the US’s all encompassing reach in or cover of all aspects of life in Macedonia. This allowed any crackpot with a bizarre theory such as Freemasons etc to hitch their wagon onto Velinovska for better to worse.<br />
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In private Macedonians have different opinions. One local academic denounced the OTI radio call-in show as “a total failure” and another local complained that its television program was “obviously political, favoring SDSM.” All of TEAM UZUNOV’s sources agree that the USAID program appeared to work in tandem with the same Soros-linked NGOs that roused attention from conservative lobbyists and the U.S. Congress in the first place.<br />
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“The foreign media and government call us anti-American, pro-Russian, dangerous nationalists,” the former intelligence officer told TEAM UZUNOV. “The truth is, we could have done a lot of damage to OTI and secret groups like it, but we left them alone- and that is because we see America as our ally, even despite everything they do against Macedonia.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>THE BAILY ULTIMATUM - Part 2 - Bringing the Heat !</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">By Sasha Uzunov</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like the film character Jason Bourne, U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily seems to be suffering from some memory loss- that’s one way to interpret his inability to respond to TEAM UZUNOV’s written questions, sent to him by email several weeks ago. It should be noted that in a live encounter on 29 August 2018 Mr. Baily did say he would ‘think about’ answering, but dismissed all 23 of TEAM UZUNOV’s questions as ‘bullshit.’ The reader can make up his or her own mind about this depiction after reading the articles to follow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>- previous article Part 1 of the BAILY ULTIMATUM at this link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-questions-about.html">here </a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>BAILY- BRINGING THE HEAT</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ambassador Baily has been no stranger to controversy, indeed even before coming to Macedonia he was already stirring up emotions as he referred to Macedonians as ‘Slavs’ in his 2014 Senate confirmation hearing. That caused the then-Gruevski government to issue a protest note, as Balkan Insight reported on 22 September 2014. see link <a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonia-at-odds-with-new-us-ambassador">here </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The British website also reported Baily’s comments in that hearing regarding his future plans- ‘he said that during his term in Skopje, he will pay particular attention to the improvement of media freedoms and trust in the judiciary in Macedonia.’ This is particularly ironic given that Baily would not respond to TEAM UZUNOV’s questions, nor indeed has he stood up to the current Macedonian government’s banning of TEAM UZUNOV for spurious reasons from the recent press conference of U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis in Skopje.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After Ambassador Baily finally arrived in Macedonia in February 2015, his image took considerable hits as he was seen to be partisan (pro-SDSM) during the wiretap scandal, in the drafting of the Przino Agreement of July 2015, that created another very controversial body (Katica Janeva’s Special Public Prosecutor’s Office) and paved the way for early elections that were held on 11 December, 2016. Baily was criticised by many Macedonians for the U.S. role in the so-called ‘Colourful Revolution’ that helped SDSM take power and, especially, for the U.S. failure to oppose the post-election ‘Tirana Platform’ of ultra-nationalist ethnic Albanian demands, signed in the office of Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>U.S. Fingers on the Funding: EWMI and the NGOs</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The former and present U.S. governments’ claims of ‘Russian interference’ in Macedonia are particularly bizarre in that the U.S. and not Russia is the superpower that spends millions of dollars annually in funding for quasi-political NGO programs that have included support for violent left-wing movements. While USAID has a massive footprint in the country, no similar Russian aid program exists- aside from the EU and its programs, the only other foreign country with a visible presence is Turkey and its development agency, TIKA, albeit on a much more modest level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As TEAM UZUNOV exclusively reported last year, Mr. Rama’s ex-wife Delina Fico just happened to be on the U.S. books at election-time, working with the coordinative grant-managing body dealing with Macedonian NGOs, called the East-West Management Institute. Leaked emails between the Macedonian NGO activists involved revealed their excitement to be working with ‘big players’ in the U.S. through this scheme. see link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">New official data on EWMI collected by TEAM UZUNOV proves that this organisation is in reality just a USAID/State Department front group. EWMI’s 2016 financial disclosure statement - see <a href="https://ewmi.org/sites/ewmi.org/files/OrgFiles/Final%20East%20West%20Financial%20Statements%202016%20.pdf">link</a> - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">states that ‘the Institute received approximately 91% and 88% of its total revenue in 2016 and 2015, respectively, either directly or indirectly from the USAID. Any significant reduction in the level of support from the USAID could have a material adverse effect on the Institute’s programs.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The document adds that the Institute’s ‘government revenue arises primarily from contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants’ from USAID and the State Department for ‘judicial reform, legal aid, and rule of law programs in Cambodia, Albania, Georgia, Vietnam, Serbia and Sri Lanka,’ in addition to ‘training and support for non-governmental organisations, grassroots networks, public policy, and human rights programs in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Macedonia.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ironically enough, soon after Baily’s offensive ‘Slav’ referenced caused tensions in Macedonia in 2014, the not-yet-appointed ambassador did get some support in parts of the local press- including one website, Factchecking.mk, which decried a ‘media smear campaign’ and ‘hate speech’ against Baily. see link<a href="http://factchecking.mk/critical-thinking-exercises-is-the-word-slavs-offensive-to-macedonians/"> here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet after the article proper (which was written by a Macedonian) the following disclaimer indicates that the Embassy was essentially writing its own damage-control PR with the story!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This analysis was created within the framework of the USAID Media Strengthening in Macedonia Project – Media Fact-Checking Service Component, implemented by Metamorphosis. The analysis is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of its author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Metamorphosis, USAID or the United States Government. For more information on the work of USAID in Macedonia please visit its website (macedonia.usaid.gov) and Facebook page (www.facebook.com/USAIDMacedonia).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>BATTLE LINES DRAWN – THE BAILY OFFENSIVE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ambassador Baily became even more controversial during the Macedonian election period- which was followed shortly by the shock election of Donald Trump as U.S. president in November 2016, an event having major impact for the Macedonian expectations, particularly among VMRO-DPMNE, that the new administration might call off its attack dogs in the State Department and Embassy. However, this did not happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although it won fewer MP seats than expected, the winning VMRO-DPMNE party was technically capable of forming a coalition with old partner DUI, the main ethnic Albanian party. However, Baily’s direct pressure quashed this possibility, a Macedonian former MP tells TEAM UZUNOV: ‘on election night, they were celebrating in the DUI shtab (headquarters). They thought they will have a new coalition. But then a phone call from the U.S. Embassy came and they were told to forget that idea, because VMRO-DPMNE would not be allowed to be in power.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This claim is not as shocking as it might appear, considering the consistent involvement the U.S. has always had in Macedonian politics. At the same time, the Embassy was forced to issue a public statement denying that its staff had entered the premises of the State Election Commission (DIK) during the vote tallies and recounts. The statement read in part: ‘let us correct the record to clearly state that the U.S. Ambassador has not met with, visited, or intervened with anyone at the SEC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Regardless of what happened or didn’t happen, no question the Embassy was under withering assault and felt it had to defend itself. This got worse as Edi Rama’s interference with the ‘Tirana Platform’ resulted in months of street protests (the ‘Ilinden4’ movement) and a deadlock on forming a government, as President Gjorge Ivanov refused to grant SDSM’s Zoran Zaev a mandate unless he abandoned the ultra-nationalist Albanian demands, citing the Macedonian constitution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>RAPID-FIRE ACTION- INTRIGUE FROM SKOPJE TO WASHINGTON</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The drama heated up when VMRO-DPMNE supporters additionally took measures to point out the longstanding ties of both SDSM and the USAID grant-making schemes to billionaire philanthropist George Soros, with a campaign called Stop Operation Soros. see link <a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonia-forms-anti-soros-movement-01-18-2017">here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of this scrutiny brought the tension to a fever pitch. A local Macedonian source on good terms with US Embassy officials tells TEAM UZUNOV that the Ambassador was ‘absolutely livid’ at the official letters sent by American parliamentarians inquiring into his mischief-making. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Republican Senator Mike Lee on 17 January inquired about the Embassy’s political role. see link <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=09FD00EC-5CA9-4FD4-8A18-03EE674A592A">here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the same day, Congressman Christopher Smith and five others sent a similar letter, which TEAM UZUNOV publishes here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Congressmen gave Baily two weeks to reply to questions about “credible reports” that during Baily’s tenure the Embassy had “actively intervened in the party politics of Macedonia” along with media and civil society interference. On top of that, the congressmen asked Baily to specify his own role in negotiating the December 2016 elections, as well as the two scuppered ones earlier in the year that were cancelled for various reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A Macedonian-American diaspora activist in Washington with tight connections to some US political heavy hitters recently told TEAM UZUNOV that “Baily was getting all his supporters lined up to support him, nobody was sure what the new Trump Administration was going to do and there was a real fear that he might no longer be able to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This concern was increased when the influential conservative group, Judicial Watch, also announced an investigation into the role of government funding for Macedonian NGOs, announcing on 28 February2017 that Soros was giving millions to destabilise Macedonia. see link <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/02/u-s-gives-soros-groups-millions-destabilize-macedonias-conservative-govt/">here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day the conservative watchdog announced that it would launch an investigation into the Skopje Embassy itself in regards to its funding of Soros-linked NGOs loyal to SDSM, reported MIA see link <a href="https://www.mia.mk/en/Inside/RenderSingleNews/289/133591445">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 3 February, then-State Department Spokesman Mark Toner issued a statement that the department had “full confidence” in the Skopje Embassy and in the beleaguered Baily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 14 February, the Embassy issued a brusque press release that it ‘had responded’ to Senator Lee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, the legislators were persistent and only after a letter of 14 March did the senator receive an official reply, dated 23 March, which TEAM UZUNOV is publishing here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The letter, written by Joseph E. Macmanus (pictured below), combines the usual legalese with claims that are highly controversial, if not outright false. For example, the apparatchik writes that “U.S. foreign assistance is not used to support political party agendas or to influence a particular political outcome.” It lists generic adherence to USAID guidelines, but ignores any questions about Baily’s specific engagement, just noting generalities like USAID is used for “funding and support for democratic reforms and civic engagement,” and so on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Washington source tells TEAM UZUNOV that ‘it really shows how scared Baily and the Embassy were about the congressional investigations- he didn’t just have his boss Hoyt Yee or someone else write a nice letter on his behalf, Baily had to get an official letter from the State Department’s legal division. Macmanus is a heavy-hitter, a former Hilary Clinton insider who has had a long career, even working for Obama on the Iran deal negotiations. But this was like Baily’s get-out-of-jail free card, as after that they were not hassled much, and especially after the 27th April parliament events [attack in parliament], nobody in DC could support the VMRO-DPMNE position.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When asked to elaborate the Washington source said simply that “the VMRO-DPMNE advantage was that Baily’s Colourful Revolution group, which was commemorated here by things like art shows, had been violent. So SDSM, and frankly Baily, they needed something violent to blame on VMRO-DPMNE, which they got with the parliament storming. So after that it was like a moral equivalence argument, and no lawmakers were willing to stick their necks out for the government. Baily won the same way SDSM got their mandate, through violence, which was the same way they got their last mandate after the war in 2002.’</span><br />
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<b>REGIME CHANGE - NAME CHANGE - BAILY’S END STATE IS THE END OF THE MACEDONIAN STATE? - Mission Complete? </b><br />
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It is no coincidence that the dramatic and earth shattering changes that have taken place in the Republic of Macedonia over the past four years have “coincided” with Ambassador Jess Baily’s tour of duty - from toppling the previous VMRO-DPMNE government, flawed and corrupt in its own right, to installing another government that of Zoran Zaev’s SDSM, and it too flawed and corrupt but holding absolutely no scruple in breaking promises about keeping “red lines” over national interest such as name change of Macedonia into North Macedonia and signing the Prespa Agreement and the Bulgarian Good Neighbourly Agreement, both seen as capitulatory. <br />
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The Russian “interference” in Macedonia narrative used is nothing more than a convenient label to stick on anyone who deviates from the Ambassador’s view. It’s been clever to some extent but seriously flawed - namely the key US supporters in Macedonia are ex Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic supporters who were anti NATO and anti US (and by default pro Russian) at one point and cynically have jumped on the NATO/US bandwagon - for opportunistic reasons and to cover up their own previous “naughty behaviour.”<br />
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US Embassy insiders have told TEAM UZUNOV that the diplomat can’t wait to get out of the country soon enough. If the 30 September 2018 referendum in Macedonia goes without a hitch and Macedonians swallow the fantasy in believing that by changing their identity they will enter EU utopia and that NATO membership will automatically confer riches, then the US diplomat leaves Macedonia with mission complete stamped on his US State Department personnel file and on to a well deserved vacation.<br />
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<b>THE BAILY ULTIMATUM </b><br />
PART 3 - link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-3-oti-regime.html">here</a><br />
PART 4 - link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-4-spooky.html">here</a>TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-81884585129485020232018-09-20T17:11:00.000+10:002018-10-04T20:17:39.177+10:00THE BAILY ULTIMATUM PART 1 - QUESTIONS ABOUT MACEDONIA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>WHEN FACT BECOMES MORE EXCITING THAT HOLLYWOOD ACTION FICTION</b><br />
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The United States’s Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Jess Baily, has been a controversial figure from day one of his appointment in 2014. It’s hard to separate the various myths, legends and facts about him and his omnipotence. Some have attributed to him enormous superpowers and involvement in many wild conspiracies which are simply downright silly and do nothing to throw any light on his activities. Moreover, he is not a popular man amongst Macedonians in general because of his behaviour or perceptions about his behaviour, especially a pro Albanian bias.<br />
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But one thing is certain he has played a key role in Macedonia being on the threshold of changing its name and identity in order to gain NATO and European Union membership. The US diplomat’s tour of duty has coincided with the controversial Colour Revolution of 2016 which led to vandalising of Macedonian monuments and brought “regime change” in Macedonia - the removal of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski - the 27 April 2017 attack in the Macedonian parliament; US State Department official Hoyt Yee strong-arming the Macedonian President George Ivanov into giving Zoran Zaev of the Social Democrats (SDSM) a mandate to form government; a disputed election of the new Parliamentary speaker Talat Xhaferi; the Tirana Platform; the Good neighbourly deal with Bulgaria and the crucial Prespa Agreement signed with Greece. What now remains is a referendum to be held in Macedonia on 30 September asking in a convoluted way will Macedonia’s change it name in order to secure Greece not vetoing Macedonia’s NATO and EU bid.<br />
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In other words will Macedonian identity have to be sacrificed for US strategic needs, that is bedding down the Balkans and keeping the Russians out, and appeasing Bulgarian, Greek and Albanian nationalist demands in Macedonia? Is it a cynical case of the path of least resistance for Washington? Is it easier for the US to satisfy NATO members Bulgaria, Greece and Albania? During the US diplomat’s tenure the fear of Russian “interference” in Macedonia has been talked up to obsessive levels but the interesting thing is Ambassador Baily’s willingness to embrace those in Macedonia who were once anti US and pro Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic and who have now opportunistically hitched their political wagon to NATO. This reveals a Machiavellian side and raises questions of morality; of political expediency and dare we say it, deceit? - more on the Prespa Agreement at this link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here</a> - more on the Bulgarian Good neighbourly deal <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/07/bulgarian-agreement-dagger-at.html">here</a> - more on the Tirana Platform <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/04/macedonias-life-or-death-struggle.html">here</a><br />
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The delicious irony is the US diplomat’s behaviour or perceptions of his behaviour has turned many Macedonians who were pro US away from US foreign policy in Macedonia and given Russia some steam and influence in Macedonia, though not of the proportions that are being claimed.<br />
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Recently in 2018, Team Uzunov blog contacted Ambassador Baily a number of times requesting an on camera interview in order to get his side of the story over many controversial issues relating to Macedonia. Last year he declined an on camera interview but his media spokesman answered a list of questions sent to him - see link<a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html"> here</a>.<br />
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This time around Ambassador Baily has not responded at all to a list of questions below - which over a number of future articles will be examined in more detail.<br />
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1. How did the US embassy help to facilitate the Katzen Art Center’s fall 2016 photo exhibit on the ‘Colourful Revolution?’ What was the purpose of this exhibit? Do you think it helped put a positive spin on US backed protests and other events in the summer of 2016 broadly associated with the pro-SDSM Colourful Revolution’? link<a href="https://american.edu/cas/auarts/calendar/?id=7064596"> here</a><br />
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2. Did employees and/or contractors of US government programs literally buy the paint from the shop in Skopje (that was used for throwing paint bombs at monuments in the summer of 2016)? Was that within the mandate of USAID’s mission?<br />
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3. Why did [US diplomat] Hoyt Yee resign from his position in the [US] State Department?<br />
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4. A cover image of the tabloid Slobodan Pechat, which favors SDSM, depicted Mr Yee as karate-kicking President Ivanov into accepting the terms of a new government, perhaps a nod to his Asian ancestry. Do you think this was a racist cartoon that crossed a line?<br />
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5. Did any US Embassy officials counsel Zoran Zaev in his approach to phrasing the words of the paper he signed to win the mandate from President Ivanov? If so, what did they do?<br />
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6. Who were the American advisers who helped draft the Prespa Agreement, and what parts in particular did they draft?<br />
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7. In numerous cases, Macedonian media [see articles - links below] has proven personal relationships between Embassy employees (including the ambassador) and persons involved closely with political parties, the Special Prosecutor’s Office and most recently, the new head of the Bureau of Public Safety, Saso Tasevski, had close relations with Ambassador Baily and was in trainings with the FBI (not to mention took part in shootings in parliament on 27 April 2017). Even the country’s Eurovision song contest contestant last year was the daughter of the Ambassador’s personal assistant. Do you acknowledge that Macedonian critics have a point when they allege that the ambassador has an outsized influence in the country? links <a href="http://netpress.com.mk/infomaks-otkriva-majkata-raboti-za-bejli-kako-covek-za-vrska-sjo-kerkata-protestira-za-zaev-soprugot-e-vo-plenum/">here</a> and <a href="https://vecer.mk/makedonija/chovekot-na-bejli-zadolzhen-za-sjo-i-pritisok-vrz-sudii-fatena-na-delo">here</a><br />
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8. How was the McCann (www.mccann.com.mk) advertising company selected to work on the fall 2016 campaign with AECOM Skopje? Do McCann personnel have any lingering connections with embassy personnel?<br />
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9. In Ambassador Baily’s 2014 Senate Confirmation Hearing, he referred to the Macedonians as ‘Slavs’. As an expert on the region, surely he would have known this was understand as a racist and pejorative term. Why did he use this term?<br />
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10. The last foreign trip of former CIA Director John Brennan was to see Albanian PM Edi Rama right before the Macedonian elections of December 2016, not long after which the Macedonian-Albanian political leaders met in Rama’s office to agree the so-called ‘Tirana Platform’ of extreme nationalist ethnic Albanian demands, that let to months of protests in Macedonia. To what extent was your embassy involved with Brennan in arranging the progress of events that led to this Platform? Why would the Embassy knowingly back and then refuse to criticise an ethnically chauvinistic program, especially in consideration of the historical sensitivities in the region? links <a href="https://exit.al/en/2016/12/12/state-police-in-action-after-visit-cia-director/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/07/cia-director-visits-albania-for-counterterrorism-talks.html">here</a> and <a href="http://english.republika.mk/after-meeting-with-cia-director-brennan-rama-summoned-albanian-party-leaders-in-macedonia-to-urgent-meeting/">here </a><br />
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11. Explain the process of how the Embassy coordinated with Brennan before his trip- how early, whether you are satisfied with the result obtained?<br />
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12. Media groups that do not support the 30 September referendum such as Republika have complained that the government is censoring similar people online. To my knowledge, your embassy has not criticized this policy. Why?<br />
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http://english.republika.mk/alibi-for-massacre-of-media-critical-writing-about-the-referendum-dimitrov-says-its-orchestrated-spreading-fake-news/<br />
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13. Do you believe the benefits of stifling free speech in the long run will outweigh the drawbacks?<br />
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14. Why did David Stephenson resign from the US Embassy in Macedonia ? What are his current activities as a strategist in Skopje? Is the embassy or present/former staff providing advisory services to the Macedonian government or its supporters to try and pass the referendum?<br />
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15. Given that the US Embassy has for many years called for freedom of media, public association and general human rights, do you believe that the government is in danger of infringing upon Macedonian citizens’ human rights with such measures? Supporters of public opposition groups to the referendum such as #Bojkotiram have written that they fear the government will target them.<br />
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16. When the U.S. officially recognised Macedonia's constitutional name in 2004, why was that not a permanent form of recognition? The U.S. now is working hard against the name 14 years later, by promoting the Prespa Agreement. Why the reversal?<br />
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17. Does the US support the right of the Macedonians to self- determination and self-identification, basic human rights which are inalienable and guaranteed by all major human rights instruments, and if so, why does it also support the Prespa Agreement which so blatantly deprives Macedonians of these rights and imposes the use of the name Republic of North Macedonia erga omnes.?<br />
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18. In 2008 the US Embassy in Macedonia warned against official bilingualism - elevating Albanian on par with Macedonia - for fear of the country unravelling. Why has the US reversed this policy?<br />
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19. Last year the US Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia strongly criticised far right extremists who had carried the US flag during a march but in Macedonia the US stubbornly refuses to condemn World War II Albanian Nazi statues built by Albanian politicians over the past decade. Why the blatant inconsistency?<br />
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<b>IRON MIKE FRITZ OF OTI - USAID’s “special trouble-shooting unit.”</b><br />
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20. Who suggested the Office of Transition Initiative (OTI) program be implemented in Macedonia, considering this has only been used in a handful of third world countries?<br />
- Did someone in the US Embassy in Skopje requested this? When?<br />
- How beneficial was it that Iron Mike Fritz is [was] Head of OTI in Washington and previously been head of USAID in Macedonia?<br />
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21. Did Ambassador Jess Baily know ex US Ambassador Phillip T. Reeker from their college days?<br />
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22. When did the US Embassy learn of the "Kumanovo shootout" of 2015 involving Albanian terrorists against Macedonia's police? How did it learn of the attack? What did the US Embassy do? Did it pass on advance warnings to the Macedonian government? - Kumanovo shootout link <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumanovo_clashes">here</a><br />
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23. Why has it been US strategy in Macedonia to deliberately use Serb chauvinists who pretend to be anti nationalists and anti corruption campaigners such as Borjan Jovanovski, Pavle Bogoevski etc to attack Macedonian identity but who hypocritically refuse to protest outside the Serb Embassy in Macedonia over Serb nationalism and extensive money laundering, which the US State Department considers Serb money laundering as very grave and having an impact globally? Isn't this racist? Can you imagine a Chinese impersonating a Vietnamese? Also ex Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic supporters / enablers such as Vlado Kambovski and Ljubomir Frckoski have also been coopted into supporting NATO. Doesn't this undermine the NATO referendum by cynically using people in Macedonia who were at one time staunchly anti NATO? Are you willing to accept that many Macedonians genuinely remain sceptical about joining NATO?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">PART 2 BAILY ULTIMATUM - BRINGING THE HEAT - link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-2-bringing-heat.html">here</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">PART 3 - link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-3-oti-regime.html">here </a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">PART 4 - link <a href="https://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-baily-ultimatum-part-4-spooky.html">here</a></span></b></div>
TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-32978810328244815132018-09-13T20:07:00.000+10:002018-09-13T20:28:43.586+10:00THE GHOST PROTOCOL- Merkel, Mickovski, Macedonia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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VMRO-DPMNE leader Christian Mickovski (centre) flanked by waiting media after his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Embassy in Skopje, the Macedonian capital.<br />
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<b>THE GHOST PROTOCOL - Merkel’s message to Mickovski. What did she say or rather who didnt she want to listen in? Keep British rebel group out?</b><br />
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On Saturday 8 September 2018 - Macedonia’s independence day - German Prime Minister (Chancellor) Angela Merkel arrived in Macedonia to bolster the pro NATO and Macedonia name change referendum to be held at the end of this month. She met with the country’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev (see photo below on the right) at a political love fest that passed as a media conference.<br />
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Later in the day she met with Macedonia’s main opposition leader from VMRO-DPMNE Christian Mickovski at the German Embassy in Skopje. After his meeting, Mickovski gave an impromptu media conference outside the Embassy but did not reveal too much. Days later he came out with the Party’s official position on the 30 September referendum - which was a bit of this and bit of that - not saying boycott but not saying turn up and vote either.<br />
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<b>MEETING TOOK PLACE INSIDE THE EMBASSY:</b><br />
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This is a very important point, missed by many, but not by some certain factions - perhaps too strong a word - within the British political Establishment who oppose the controversial Prespa Agreement signed by Greece and Macedonia, which in effect means erasing Macedonian identity in order to gain EU and NATO membership by removing Greek veto in both organisations. (more on the Prespa Agreement here at this <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">link</a>)<br />
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Last year a high ranking British source, angry with US foreign policy towards Macedonia, leaked USAID emails to TEAM UZUNOV blog which gave a glimpse into how deep deep US influence had permeated Macedonian society. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html">here</a><br />
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<b>MINI-TURF WAR</b><br />
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In fact there is a mini-turf war over Macedonia which doesn't involve the US and Russia but Germany and a tiny rebel group in London over influence.<br />
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The fear is the Prespa Agreement turns Macedonia into a de facto Hellenic Hong Kong, a province of Greece, which means German control.<br />
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Part of the reason for Brexit, was the fear of Germany taking a stranglehold on the British economy via the migrant crisis.<br />
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The majority of the British political establishment support the Prespa Agreement, more because of the UK’s membership of NATO than for anything else. The previous UK Ambassador Charles Garrett played a leading role in “name change” for Macedonia.<br />
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The Germany Embassy besides providing Mrs Merkel with physical security also “protects” her conversations from surveillance and eavesdropping.<br />
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In 2010 it was claimed the US had tapped the German Chancellor’s telephone . see link <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10407282/Barack-Obama-approved-tapping-Angela-Merkels-phone-3-years-ago.html">here</a>TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906480814128813107.post-17799682238522253902018-09-12T16:34:00.000+10:002018-09-12T18:13:29.405+10:00BBC BIG GUN AIMS TO “REFORM” MACEDONIA’S MEDIA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A journalist with the UK’s national broadcaster the BBC is aiming to “reform" Macedonia’s media by applying for a grant from controversial USAID, the US government’s official aid agency<br />
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Ms Rachel Wright was in Skopje, the Macedonian capital last week, when she was spotted by chance at the luxurious Marriott Hotel. She was waiting in the lobby to meet with local Macedonian journalists to put a team together in order to bid for a USAID grant. see link <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-wright-88b35441/">here</a><br />
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TEAM UZUNOV blog broke a story last year after a highly placed British source, unhappy with US foreign policy, leaked a number of USAID emails showing the deep involvement of the US government in funding activists groups to attack so called Macedonian nationalism but remaining silent on Albanian extremism, in particular World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/09/leaked-emails-reveal-us-meddling-in.html">here </a><br />
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Ms Wright told TEAM UZUNOV she does not agree with the criticism of USAID.<br />
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She was involved in producing a documentary about the highly politicised and controversial Special Public Prosecutor (SJO) set up in Macedonia under European Union pressure - link <a href="http://rs.n1info.com/a377060/Video/Makedonski-Carlijevi-andjeli.html">here</a><br />
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At the same time that Ms Wright was in the Marriott Hotel, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz walked past her in the lobby and into the bar to meet with local Albanian nationalist politicians Ali Ahmeti, Artan Grubi, Teuta Arifi and the controversial Nevzat Bejta who has built World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia post 2001 conflict. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/zaev-albanian-amnesia-bulgarian.html">here</a><br />
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The Spanish Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Emilio Lorenzo Serra, has defended a controversial European Union agricultural project which aims to “consolidate” numerous small farming plots into larger more economically viable farms. - (EU funded MAINLAND project see link <a href="http://www.fao.org/europe/news/detail-news/en/c/1106193/">here</a> )<br />
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Mr Serra was a guest speaker at a recycling and waste management project event in Skopje held by Macedonia’s deputy Environment Minister Mr Jani Makrudli. Mr Serra also made the controversial remark, referring to Macedonia as North Macedonia. see link <a href="https://mia.mk/EN/Inside/RenderSingleNews/363/134436722">here</a><br />
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A number of Macedonian farmers contacted TEAM UZUNOV blog on the condition of anonymity to express worry over the EU’s Land Consolidation project.<br />
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They are saying that it is a smokescreen for multinationals from Germany or the Netherlands etc. to buy up their land cheaply. The Spanish Ambassador Emilio Lorenzo Serra reacted to those concerns.<br />
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- more on Ambassador Plomp at this <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2017/12/germany-responds-to-albanian-nazi.html">link</a><br />
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MONTY PYTHONESQUE? - A Zoran Zaev love fest organised by the EU to condemn right wing nationalism but the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia refused to condemn Albanian right nationalism/extremism in Macedonia. </div>
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The real purpose is to back Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zaev into changing Macedonia’s name - a controversial referendum will be held on it on 30 September 2018 - in order to gain EU and NATO membership by removing the veto of Greece and Bulgaria - both members of the two aforementioned international alliances. </div>
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TEAM UZUNOV contacted the Dutch Ambssador Mr Wouter Plomp more than a month ago via email with a list of questions. The Ambassador had not responded so we asked him in person at the event on Friday. He felt he couldn’t condemn Nazis because he had guests in town. See and hear the video attached below. Bizarre - and I have overused that word since my arrival in Macedonia last month- sums it up.</div>
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Raw footage - In what can only be described as truly bizarre and Monty Pythonesque, the Netherlands Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr Wouter Plomp, refused to condemn right wing Albanian extremism in Macedonia, in particular the building of World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues in Macedonia post 2001 by pro West Albanian politicians. </div>
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Key speakers: Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Ernst Stetter, the Secretary General of Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Maria Joao Rodrigues, MEP. Holiday Inn, Skopje, Macedonia. Friday 31 August 2018.</div>
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Ambassador Plomp has readily advertised his concern for the Holocaust - tweeting on social media - but refused point blank to condemn WWII Albanian Nazi collaborator statues. That’s truely bizarre but hammers home the EU cynicism in that it will support anyone - despite their extremism and in this particular instance the Albanian political bloc in Macedonia - so long as they or it support the EU / NATO agenda. </div>
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Canadian Macedonian pundit Mark Branov, a spokesman for the Macedonian civic organisation, Makedonium, was bemused by Ambassador Plomp’s reaction:<br />
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"On their home turf, western politicians routinely condemn the horrors of WWII. But when asked to condemn neo-Nazi statues in ethnic Albanian neighbourhoods of Macedonia, those same officials are suddenly shy. A NATO-backed army of terrorists attacked the country in 2001, and ever since, there has been an active campaign to whitewash the historical record of ethnic Albanian extremism. After all, Ali Ahmeti is still in charge, and he is still one of NATO’s most valuable pawns in the region.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily (left), Macedonia’s Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski (centre) and the newly installed head of the Public Safety Bureau Saso “The Shooter” Tasevski, who gained notoriety as the then bodyguard of Zoran Zaev, now Prime Minister, during the assault on Macedonia’s Parliament in April 2017. Tasevski pulled out his pistol and fired some rounds inside the building. Video still photo by Sasha Uzunov.</span><br />
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The United States yesterday donated two mobile radioactive/nuclear detection units - equipped Mercedes Benz vans - to Macedonia - in order to stop the illegal trade in radioactive/nuclear material.<br />
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The units would be located at border checkpoints or any other place in Macedonia where there was a need for them.<br />
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There was a brief signing ceremony between the US Ambassador Jess Baily and Macedonia’s Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski at the Interior Ministry Headquarter complex in Skopje, the Macedonian capital but no media questions after the event. see link<a href="https://www.mia.mk/en/Inside/RenderSingleNews/382/134428016"> here </a><br />
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The timing seemed to be coincidental - a week ago stories emerged of claims that depleted uranium shells were used at Krivolak, the Macedonian Army’s firing range. The government has dismissed these claims. see link <a href="http://english.republika.mk/mod-no-use-of-depleted-uranium-at-krivolak-training-area/">here</a><br />
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It is also unusual why land locked Macedonia would be used as a smuggling route when it is probably easier to use others. Macedonia and neighbouring Serbia, both non NATO members, are ringed by NATO member states - Montenegro, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. Kosovo remains a de facto US protectorate with a large US military base at Bondsteel.<br />
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But what is alarming is why does Macedonia need such mobile units? The most probable answer is the fear of terrorists, and the reality being ethnic Albanian Islamists who have fought in Iraq and Syria for ISIS, getting their hands on “dirty bombs” - conventional explosive device with radioactive material. The material could also be illegally sold to a state or non state player to make a full scale nuclear bomb. The focus no doubt would turn on “rogue states” such as Iraq or others, even though Iraq has its own well established nuclear program, just short of a weapons making.<br />
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<b>TEAM UZUNOV Blog’s British diplomatic source has revealed that both the British externally based intelligence service (MI6) and its German counterpart (BND) have their main “stations” in Belgrade, Serbia, with one task, amongst many others, to closely monitor the legacy of ex-Yugoslavia’s nuclear program, which for all intents and purposes is dormant, if not dead (see below). Both these intelligence services run their operations in Macedonia from Belgrade. The BND also has a major station in Tirana, the Albanian capital.</b><br />
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In Macedonia any discussion of Albanian extremism - whether it be the secular nationalist variety of Ali Ahmeti which builds World War II Albanian Nazi statues is deliberately ignored and the percentage of Jihadist terrorists, well over 90% of ethnic Albanians, is not given much emphasis. Instead the blame to some extent is placed upon “evil Slav” Macedonians who have allegedly discriminated against muslim Albanians who have then turned to radical jihadism. It’s a nonsense claim, easily dismissed. You can see this propaganda of blaming “evil Slav” Macedonians in a Kosovo “strategic think tank” paper at this <a href="http://www.qkss.org/repository/docs/Extremism_in_macedonia_402663.pdf">link</a><br />
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Have you ever heard of “human rights activists” build statues or invoking World War II Nazi collaborators or fascists as heroes to begin with? You will find that in Macedonia’s Albanian political scene - both secular nationalist and islamist - happily embrace the likes of Nazi collaborator Xhem Hasa.<br />
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Not all muslims are extreme, and this has to be emphasised. Muslims in the Balkans - Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia are the most moderate of all but there has been an alarming rise in the spread of Saudi style Wahhabism, including Salafism, something alien to Balkan Islam.<br />
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In comparison there have been no reported cases of “radicalised” native ethnic Macedonian Orthodox Christians fighting for “Mother Russia” in The Ukraine.<br />
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The bottom line is the Albanian political factor in Macedonia remains a staunch US ally. Any criticism of the Albanian factor is a criticism of US foreign policy in Macedonia.<br />
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Albanian extremism - both the secular nationalist one and the Jihadist one - pose serious security concerns for Macedonia and Macedonians. Yet it is an imported American problem in Macedonia - the 2001 war being a prime example. - see link <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/11/edvulliamy.peterbeaumont">here</a> - and this is something that cannot be overlooked or covered up with alibis such as the US/EU brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement signed in 2001 between Albanian “insurgents” (in reality terrorists) and the Macedonian state to end the “conflict” which was kick-started by the US to begin with.<br />
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<b>TAKE 7 - MACEDONIA: JIHADIST DUMPING GROUND FOR THE US? The Times of London story:</b><br />
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The Balkan state of Macedonia has taken back seven Islamic State fighters captured in Syria, the first significant public repatriation by a European state.<br />
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The decision by Macedonia, after a request by the United States, will put more pressure on Britain to rethink its refusal to accept the return of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, accused of being two of the so-called “Beatles” who held and beheaded western hostages.<br />
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Their fate is subject to a complex diplomatic struggle between the British and American governments, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-led, western-backed militia holding them. link <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/macedonia-takes-back-7-isis-prisoners-from-syria-wk60rqrmf">here</a><br />
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<b>PRESPA AGREEMENT - NAME CHANGE FOR MACEDONIA FOR US STRATEGIC NEEDS ?</b> The United States’s stranglehold on Macedonia since its independence, and especially after the 2001 war when it installed Albanian political clients, such as the local variant of the Kosovo Liberation Army led by Ali Ahmeti, is super tight, if not suffocating.<br />
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The whole agenda of getting Macedonia to change its name in order to appease Greek nationalist demands and give up its history in order to get Bulgaria onside is being driven by Washington. Both Greece and Bulgaria are NATO and EU members and staunch US allies. There are four US bases in Bulgaria and a large Naval facilities, used by the US, on the Greek island of Crete in the strategic Mediterranean Sea. It stands to reason that it would be easier to arm twist or bribe Macedonia to give up its identity and get it into both NATO and the EU than trying to convince Athens and Sofia to accommodate Macedonia. The path of least resistance. more at this link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/prespa-agreement-underpinned-by.html">here </a><br />
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The EU propaganda road show (see below) continues in Macedonia in the lead up to the controversial NATO and Macedonia name change referendum to be held on 30 September 2018. see <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/boycott-referendum-alliance-formed.html">here</a> and <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/ivanov-second-battle-of-meckin-kamen.html">here</a> for more<br />
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Macedonia was one of six republics within Yugoslavia from 1944 to 1991 when it, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina left the socialist federation because of Serbian nationalism, leaving a rump Serbia and Montenegro to carry the Yugoslavia name until both split up in 2006. In 2008 the predominately Albanian Kosovo province of Serbia declared its independence after a US inspired NATO intervention in 1999 kicked out the Serbs. That conflict had the knock on effect upon Macedonia in 2001 with the Kosovo Liberation Army, an Albanian nationalist militia which fought the Serbs in Kosovo in 1999, took the opportunity to grab territory in Macedonia. In order to cover this up, the fantasy of “human rights” was invoked. see link <a href="http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/norway-ambassador-to-investigate.html">here</a><br />
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From 1944 until his death in 1980, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, a half Croat, half Slovene, ruled Yugoslavia. After his split from the Soviet Union’s sphere in 1949 and moving closer to the West, he initiated a weapons manufacturing industry and exported to the third world hardware of its own or acting as middleman for sought after Western technology in exchange for hard currency<br />
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<b>SERBIA’S NUCLEAR LGEACY -</b> In 2010 the US and Russia cooperated to remove Serbia’s nuclear fuel, which if it fell into the wrong hands, would have disastrous consequences not to mention environmental concerns for the Balkans region.<b> see link <a href="https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/massive-operation-safely-secures-serbian-nuclear-fuel-russia">here </a></b><br />
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<b>TITO’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM - how Norway “helped"</b><br />
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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) intermittently pursued both a nuclear energy and weapons program throughout the Tito regime. However, none of Yugoslavia's successor states currently has an active nuclear weapons program.<br />
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- Intermittently pursued a nuclear weapons program from the 1940s to 1987<br />
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In 2002, more than two and a half bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium (HEU) was stored in a civilian research reactor with inadequate security in Vinca, Serbia, near Belgrade, vulnerable to theft by terrorists. U.S. officials wanted the material protected and turned to NTI for help.<br />
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NTI worked closely with the U.S. Department of State, the IAEA, Russia and Serbia to facilitate the transfer of more than 100 pounds of weapons-usable nuclear material in the form of fresh reactor fuel to more secure storage in Russia for elimination through blend down. NTI’s contribution of $5 million also supported the repackaging and removal of 2.4 tons of highly radioactive spent reactor fuel for ultimate transport and disposition in Russia. The decommissioning of the reactor also was achieved through the project. link <a href="http://www.nti.org/learn/countries/former-yugoslavia/">here</a><br />
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<b>TITO’S MACEDONIAN MIDDLEMAN - Stojan Andov and the Middle East</b><br />
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During the 1970s and 80s, Yugoslavia became a major supplier of arms to Saddam Hussein's Iraq and even to Iran during the infamous Iraq-Iran War (1980-88) in return for hard currency, cheap oil.<br />
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Ex Macedonian Politician Stojan Andov was in 1975 running the Federal Yugoslav Committee for Economic Cooperation with Developing Countries - meaning Africa, Asia, the Middle East. From 1986 to 1990 he was Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Iraq. It stands to reason he would have played a large role in keeping weapons flowing to the Saddam regime in Baghdad. He would have also helped to arm the Ayatollah Khomeini’s islamist regime in Iraq as well as other despots in that part of the world.<br />
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The various CIA reports about Yugoslav arms exports <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T00608R000100240004-2.pdf">here</a>, <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91T01115R000400300001-8.pdf">here</a>, <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00283R000500120005-5.pdf">here</a> & <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90T00114R000403980001-4.pdf">here</a><br />
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<b>ARAB SPRING AND MACEDONIA ?</b> - 2011 story: “...Assembly Deputy Andov shares this opinion; he believes that if these states [North Arica and Arabia] adopt sharia law, the radical entities in our state [Macedonia] and in our region would receive much greater support than they do presently.” link <a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/75/758259_us-africa-eu-mesa-macedonian-experts-expect-arab-states.html">here</a><br />
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<b><br /></b>TEAM UZUNOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698591196095612384noreply@blogger.com0