Press release on inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia

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Press release on inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia


Dear colleagues,
 
Find attached our press release.
 
Helsinki Committee for HR
in the Republic of Macedonia
 
Konsultativen status pri Obedinetite nacii i Sovetot na Evropa
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ihf-hr.org
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PRESS RELEASE

Skopje, 7 March, 1999. - The widespread opinion about the relaxation
of interethnic relations in the Republic of Macedonia, that was also
accepted by some important international circles, could be denied
easily by the recent events and to be reduced to a political
promotion: this has not been confirmed in everyday life, rather it has
been denied. The small, often bloody wars between the Albanian and
Macedonian pupils, that have occurred recently in a sequential series
threatening to go out of control and become a prevailing feature of
our everyday life, represent an omen that Macedonia can anticipate a
danger with unpredictable and irreparable consequences. The
interethinc conflict now is manifested not by the declared will and
intention of the political factors that was the usual matrix in the
past, rather it has the potential of appearance of interethnic
intolerance in the foundations of the everyday relations. That
manifestation in Skopje, as well as in other places, warns and appeals
to both the coalition partners and to other political parties, to the
complete civil structure and to other competent bodies, especially the
parents and the institutions to show the highest level of alertness
and responsibility and to act quickly and efficiently for establishing
the required interethnic trust. Given the situation especially with
regard to the Kosovo threatening complexity and the conflict by which
it menaces the region, there is a need that preventive action becomes
a high priority task for everyone of us.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is committed to both greater
transparency in providing information about the possible initiators
and instigators of these conflictive situations and to urgent
undertaking of preventive educational and other activities that shall
involve, above all, both the educational institutions on all levels,
and also the parents.

The Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia

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