Attention Ged Kearney (Labor Candidate for Batman Electorate) and Australian Labor Party On behalf of the World Macedonian Congress Australia, co-Chairmen Jim Stefanovski and Goran Kotev need to bring a gross injustice to your immediate attention. Your recent flyer that has been published and disseminated is misleading and discriminatory. The Macedonian community has always historically supported the [...]
PRESS RELEASE 13 March 2018, Melbourne, Australia - In an act of perpetual discrimination towards the Australian citizens of Macedonian descent, the Australian authorities have denied the World Macedonian Congress – Australia (WMC-A) the right to register the trademark of the ‘Macedonian Sun’ within its logo, sighting it as a national symbol of Greece. In a [...]
The World Macedonian Congress Australia formally met with the officers and staff of the embassy of the Republic of Turkey on Tuesday to discuss the impending political crisis developing in the Republic of Macedonia and the wider Balkan Peninsula in general, as a means to build friendship and cooperation between the Macedonian and Turkish communities [...]
By Bayram Altug for Anadolu Agency - Macedonian NGOs slam Athens, international organizations over decades-old name dispute! GENEVA Macedonian non-governmental organizations are protesting ongoing talks on the name of their country, accusing Greece of committing “human rights violations as well as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide" against its Macedonian minority since 1913. In a [...]
Open letter to Zoran Zaev, and the City of Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov World Macedonian Congress – Australia (WMC-A) would like to bring to your attention, in regards to the removal of the Monument of freedom fighter for the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation ( IMRO – VMRO) Andon Lazov Yanev – Kjoseto, on 22 February, [...]
Makedonskite zaednici vo svetot se zagriženi za političkata kriza vo Makedonija, no edinstveni vo odbrana na imeto na državata Makedonija i identitetot na Makedonskata nacija - imeto na Makedonskiot narod i imeto na Makedonskiot jazik! Po toj povod na poveḱe meridijani na Zemjinata topka, Makedoncite organiziraat poveḱe protesti so edinstvena cel da se spreči promena [...]
Press Release Thursday 21 February 2018 - Sydney, Australia - The World Macedonian Congress Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms, the recent action of Zaev Government's removal and destruction of dedicated war monuments. During the early hours of the morning, under the cover of darkness, an off-duty journalist reported and recorded, live via Facebook, construction [...]
The World Macedonian Congress Australia Press Release Canberra, 19 February 2018 Macedonians living in Australia yesterday, travelled from Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and Melbourne to the Nation’s capital, in protest of the recent developments from a chain of events unfolding in Republic of Macedonia negating Macedonian identity. Police estimated approximately 6000 people attended the rally [...]
Sunday, 18 February 2018, Canberra - Over 6,000 Macedonians from NSW and the ACT united on Sunday, 18 February 2018 for a peaceful protest and march at the gates of the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Canberra. The protest aimed to highlight the current political situation concerning the Republic of Macedonia on the [...]
The World Macedonian Congress - Australia Press Release - 8 February 2018. Sydney, Australia. World Macedonian Congress - Australia (WMC-A) condemn the current capitulation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to Greece’s demands on name changes within the Republic of Macedonia. Zoran Zaev announced the renaming of Alexander the Great International Airport in Skopje to 'Skopje [...]
