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While it has already been dealt with here and across the spectrum ad nausea, it seems that the tired old idea that Macedonia needs to go through some special process in order to change its name from FYROM to Macedonia at the United Nations is doing the rounds again.
Recently, the idea that Macedonia should withdraw from the UN and then reapply to the General Assembly seeking admittance as Macedonia has popped up again. At face value, it seems fairly harmless. But as usual, thinking it through for a few minutes shows how utterly flawed it really is.
Here are a few points to remember:
1. The United Nations is not some omniscient authority over the world. It’s simply an organisation made up of SOVEREIGN states, which in turn are representative of a sovereign body of citizens. Each state, being sovereign and in accordance with the UN’s own Charter is capable of leaving the organisation, accepting or not accepting its jurisdiction over ‘legal’ matters (through the ICJ) and basically doing as it pleases so long as they do not violate ‘rules’ that it agreed to when joining the organisation. And in the final analysis, even if it does break the ‘rules’, history has shown that there really are no consequences of substance.
2. While the UN may have violated its own Charter in accepting Macedonia as a member under the FYROM terminology (and while that was an act of high treason on the part of the Macedonian Government), Macedonia (as a sovereign member state) can simply follow logic (as any other group or individual who is a member of an organisation is able to) and undertake the standard practice of simply informing the UN that it will now be called ‘Macedonia’ through a letter. For example, see:
http://unterm.un.org/DGAACS/unterm.n...6?OpenDocument and
http://unterm.un.org/DGAACS/unterm.n...2?OpenDocument
There is no need to invent special procedures that would only apply to Macedonia and have no basis in the UN’s Charter or procedural precedence to rectify the problem.
3. Actually reapplying to the General Assembly to re-join the UN under the name ‘Macedonia’ is in fact asking all 200 or so members to VOTE on whether we can use our own name. For those individuals on whom it is lost, the problem with this is that Macedonia would be further destroying its own freedom by begging/asking permission from not only Greece, but nearly every country in the world to let it use its name. That is such a perversion of our freedom, sovereignty and right to self-determination (all basically meaning the same thing) that not being able to understand this raises, I think, serious questions about ‘soundness of mind’ for the individuals in question.
4. The fact that no Macedonian Government to date has done this demonstrates their utter incompetence and egotistical subservience to their own perceived ‘big brothers’ within the ‘international community’ for petty personal privileges such as ‘pats on the back’ and dinner invitations at the expense of the Macedonian people, past, present and future.
While it has already been dealt with here and across the spectrum ad nausea, it seems that the tired old idea that Macedonia needs to go through some special process in order to change its name from FYROM to Macedonia at the United Nations is doing the rounds again.
Recently, the idea that Macedonia should withdraw from the UN and then reapply to the General Assembly seeking admittance as Macedonia has popped up again. At face value, it seems fairly harmless. But as usual, thinking it through for a few minutes shows how utterly flawed it really is.
Here are a few points to remember:
1. The United Nations is not some omniscient authority over the world. It’s simply an organisation made up of SOVEREIGN states, which in turn are representative of a sovereign body of citizens. Each state, being sovereign and in accordance with the UN’s own Charter is capable of leaving the organisation, accepting or not accepting its jurisdiction over ‘legal’ matters (through the ICJ) and basically doing as it pleases so long as they do not violate ‘rules’ that it agreed to when joining the organisation. And in the final analysis, even if it does break the ‘rules’, history has shown that there really are no consequences of substance.
2. While the UN may have violated its own Charter in accepting Macedonia as a member under the FYROM terminology (and while that was an act of high treason on the part of the Macedonian Government), Macedonia (as a sovereign member state) can simply follow logic (as any other group or individual who is a member of an organisation is able to) and undertake the standard practice of simply informing the UN that it will now be called ‘Macedonia’ through a letter. For example, see:
http://unterm.un.org/DGAACS/unterm.n...6?OpenDocument and
http://unterm.un.org/DGAACS/unterm.n...2?OpenDocument
There is no need to invent special procedures that would only apply to Macedonia and have no basis in the UN’s Charter or procedural precedence to rectify the problem.
3. Actually reapplying to the General Assembly to re-join the UN under the name ‘Macedonia’ is in fact asking all 200 or so members to VOTE on whether we can use our own name. For those individuals on whom it is lost, the problem with this is that Macedonia would be further destroying its own freedom by begging/asking permission from not only Greece, but nearly every country in the world to let it use its name. That is such a perversion of our freedom, sovereignty and right to self-determination (all basically meaning the same thing) that not being able to understand this raises, I think, serious questions about ‘soundness of mind’ for the individuals in question.
4. The fact that no Macedonian Government to date has done this demonstrates their utter incompetence and egotistical subservience to their own perceived ‘big brothers’ within the ‘international community’ for petty personal privileges such as ‘pats on the back’ and dinner invitations at the expense of the Macedonian people, past, present and future.
I'm getting sick of watching grown men, decedents of one of the most manly and powerful civilizations to have walked the earth, grovel and wine like a bunch of sick dogs. Grow a pair and start acting like fucking men. Stop begging and start demanding.
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