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Who removed the language? The UN, a webmaster, third party?
Monday, 15 November 2010
Anything goes at the UN these days. We are not talking about the "Food for Oil" program...
This time, a Greek official at the UN managed to remove the "Macedonian" language reference from UN's website?
While most people are pointing to the 'clout' the Greek official has at the UN, it's more or less a case of paying an underpaid UN.int webmaster to simply remove a word at a specific page. In this case it was the "language graph" under Macedonia which was identified as "Macedonian". Now, thanks to the quick witted diplomat, the graph is blank.
The UN hasn't done well for its PR recently, embroiled in dozen scandals, corruption, fraud, embezzlement... so disappearing of a word from its massive website seems fairly minor... right? Well, yes if you ignore the fact the the word is a language of a nation whose neighbor works very hard to rename, and even better, remove it from the map.
Interestingly enough, the EU report on Macedonia avoided mentioning the language of the country, citing 'we're following the UN' which speaks of a coordinated effort by Greek officials at the EU and the UN. One would think Greek politicians would be more worried about the sorry state of their country, but they still seem to be overwhelmingly busy with Macedonia.
There has been no official explanation by the UN why the language was removed. It wouldn't be surprising if 'official' UN isn't even aware of the change.
However, the UN will soon become aware. Macedonian TV station "Sitel" informed last night that Macedonia will quickly terminate the name "negotiations" with Greece under UN auspices, because the UN has chosen sides (it shouldn't have) and has removed the language of a country which is strictly forbidden under UN laws.
The missing language graph was first discovered by Srgjan Kerim's newspapers: Utrinski and Dnevnik, both well known as newspapers of the Opposition.
UN another useless Micky mouse club.
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Monday, 15 November 2010
Anything goes at the UN these days. We are not talking about the "Food for Oil" program...
This time, a Greek official at the UN managed to remove the "Macedonian" language reference from UN's website?
While most people are pointing to the 'clout' the Greek official has at the UN, it's more or less a case of paying an underpaid UN.int webmaster to simply remove a word at a specific page. In this case it was the "language graph" under Macedonia which was identified as "Macedonian". Now, thanks to the quick witted diplomat, the graph is blank.
The UN hasn't done well for its PR recently, embroiled in dozen scandals, corruption, fraud, embezzlement... so disappearing of a word from its massive website seems fairly minor... right? Well, yes if you ignore the fact the the word is a language of a nation whose neighbor works very hard to rename, and even better, remove it from the map.
Interestingly enough, the EU report on Macedonia avoided mentioning the language of the country, citing 'we're following the UN' which speaks of a coordinated effort by Greek officials at the EU and the UN. One would think Greek politicians would be more worried about the sorry state of their country, but they still seem to be overwhelmingly busy with Macedonia.
There has been no official explanation by the UN why the language was removed. It wouldn't be surprising if 'official' UN isn't even aware of the change.
However, the UN will soon become aware. Macedonian TV station "Sitel" informed last night that Macedonia will quickly terminate the name "negotiations" with Greece under UN auspices, because the UN has chosen sides (it shouldn't have) and has removed the language of a country which is strictly forbidden under UN laws.
The missing language graph was first discovered by Srgjan Kerim's newspapers: Utrinski and Dnevnik, both well known as newspapers of the Opposition.
UN another useless Micky mouse club.
Macedonian TV station "Sitel" informed last night that Macedonia will quickly terminate the name "negotiations" with Greece under UN auspices, because the UN has chosen sides (it shouldn't have) and has removed the language of a country which is strictly forbidden under UN laws.
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