Dear all,

It is of utmost importance that we all contact our Representative and Senators right away and ask them to cosponsor and support Senate Resolution SR300 and House Resolution HR 356. The Pan-Macedonian Association of USA, in its letter to our politicians, emphasized that both Resolutions call for effective measures to prohibit hostile acts on propaganda by The FYROM government-owned services and discourage misinformation of private institutions that can cause violence, hatred and animosity. Furthermore the content of books, maps and school aids of The FYROM education system should refrain of misleading its youth by perpetuating communist-Tito-inspired fictitious history.

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This issue will be very important in 2008 because the United States is strongly advocating for FYROM to be included into NATO and EU talks this year without a solution to FYROMs name with Greece. The inclusion of FYROM into NATO or the EU without the resolution of the name with FYROM will make it difficult for Greece to negotiate with FYROM over its name. Greece has clearly stated that it will not support FYROM's membership to NATO unless a mutually acceptable solution is found prior to the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania in April.

Both resolutions addresses FYROMs hostile acts such as renaming the capital citys international airport to Alexander the Great or teaching students in FYROMs state run schools that parts of Greece, including Greek Macedonia, are rightfully part of FYROM.

The original cosponsors for H.Res 356 are Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Robert Wexler (D-FL), and Elton Gallegly (R-CA). Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Barack Obama (D-IL), and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) are original cosponsors for S.Res. 300. H.Res. 356 currently has 101 cosponsors, while S.Res. 300 has 3.

H.Res. 356 and S.Res. 300 urges FYROM to:
 
1.      To observe its obligations under Article 7 of the 1995 UN-brokered Interim Accord which directs the parties to  promptly take effective measures to prohibit hostile activities or propaganda by state-controlled agencies and to discourage acts by private entities likely to incite violence, hatred, or hostility.

2.      Urges the FYROM to work within the framework of the UN process with Greece to achieve longstanding United States and United Nations policy goals by reaching a mutually-acceptable official name for FYROM.

A list of cosponsors for H.Res. 356 and S.Res. 300 are included below.

Cosponsors of H.Res. 356                                                               

Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), John Sarbanes (D-MD), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Henry Brown, Jr. (R-SC), James Langevin (D-RI), Shelly Berkley (D-NV), James McGovern (D-MA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Zachary Space (D-OH), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), Diane Watson (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Michael McNulty (D-NY), Mike McIntyre (D-NC), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Barney Frank (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), George Miller (D-CA), Darlene Hooley (D-OR), Michael Doyle (D-PA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Steve Israel (D-NY), John Duncan (D-TN), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Martin Meehan (D-MA), John Tierney (D-MA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), William

DelaHunt (D-MA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Hilda Solis (D-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Christopher Shays (R-CT), Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Robert Scott (D-VA), Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam), and Mark Steven Kirk (R-IL), Michael Arcuri (D-NY), Peter T. King (R-NY), Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Jim Costa (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Gene Green (D-TX), Vito Fossella (R-NY), Jane Harman (D-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA), Michael Honda (D-CA), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Pete Stark (D-CA), John Yarmuth (D-KY), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Paul Hodes (D-NH), Sander Levin (D-MI), Tom Davis (R-VA), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), Phil Hare (D-IL), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Betty Sutton (D-OH), Bob Filner (D-CA), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), John Doolittle (R-CA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Steven Rothman (D-NJ), John Carter (R-TX), Edward Markey (D-MA), Phil Gingrey (R-GA), Tim Murphy (D-PA), Nikki Tsongas (D-MA), Luis Fortuno (R-Puerto Rico)

Cosponsors of S.Res. 300

Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Barack Obama (D-IL), Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

ACTION REQUESTED 

CALL, FAX, or E-MAIL:

1.      To cosponsor H.Res. 356

2.      To cosponsor S.Res. 300

  
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