Why do you say that Greece borders on Macedonia in the north when there is no such country to the north of Greece?

Answer 1

The countries bordering Greece (and its historical northern province of Macedonia), to the north are (west to east): Albania, F..Y.R.O.M., and Bulgaria.

The country referred to as FYROM is the temporarily named Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or F.Y.R.O.M. It gained independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia and was admitted under the temporary name of FYROM to the United Nations in 1993.

Background

• The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a newly founded Slavic state on what was once the kingdoms of ancient Paeonia and Dardania and is unrelated to the historical Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula.
• As part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, FYROM was known as Vardar Banovina but was renamed, the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1946 as part of an agenda to wrest historical Macedonia from Greece and forge for Yugoslavia a pathway to the strategically located Aegean Sea.

UNESCO:

• The use of simply "Macedonia" to describe this unrelated Slavic state is in violation of Article 2 of the UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversitythat states that in the interest of harmonious interaction, one nation (The Former Yugoslav Republic) in exercising its right to self-determination, cannot diminish the equal right of another nation (Greece) to identify simply by its millennia-old historical identity (Macedonia).

INTERIM ACCORD:

• Under the auspices of the United Nations, the interim accord was accepted by the Republic of Former Yugoslavia agreeing to choose for itself a name that does not violate Greece's right to identify by its historical identity and that does not imply a territorial expansionist agenda on Greece's historical northern province.

CURRENT:

• The name "FYROM" is used by all international organizations and all countries when participating in any international event or on the international stage. The recognition as "Republic of Macedonia" is a bilateral agreement between individualy countries and made only for internal political expediency. All of these countries refer to the newly found slavic country as "the Former Yugoslav Republic" in official documentation including the United States of America. All countries will accept the final suitable name the FYROM will choose for itself that does not violate the UNESCO terms of cultural diversity and Greece's right to identify simply by its historical identity.