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Milososki is suggesting to the Greek lobby in the USA how they should work!

"It would be wiser for the Greek lobby in the USA instead of spending all their energy and power they are giving for one irrational bilateral argument about the name of the Republic of Macedonia, to spend it for improving the situation in their own country Greece and for an open support for stabilization in the Balkans in the frames of the expected integration into NATO" ...

"A lesson for the irrational behavior can be found in the rich legends from the Greek mythology, and in this case the legend about Sisyphus and the stone he was pushing forward eternally but did not manage to push it to the end. This can be a lesson to be learned about the manner in which one should not spend his power and energy without an aim.

Macedonia has a great interest to build further the good bilateral relations with Greece and simultaneously to continue the discussion about the bilateral questions. " said the Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Milososki.

The Pan-Macedonian Association, Inc. USA responds to Milososki’s statement:

May 9, 2007

It is not surprising that the Honorable Foreign Minister Milososki of FYROM, being a non-Greek, is only vaguely familiar with Greek mythology and Sisyphus in particular. We encourage him to open any dictionary before he attempts his next mythology lecture to the Greek American community.

Be that as it may, the Random House dictionary under Sisyphus, states: "A son of Aeolos and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery; he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again"

It is very appropriate that Mr. Milososki and his countrymen realize that trickery does not pay and that they are condemned by the goddess TRUTH to perpetually fail in their attempts to convince the world that they are "Macedonians". In short Sisyphus’ act was not an example of irrational behavior, as Mr. Milososki claims, but the price he had to pay for indulging in trickery, an act, no doubt, very familiar to Mr. Milososki and his fellow FYROMians.

Panos D. Spiliakos

Supreme President

Pan-Macedonian Association, Inc. USA