"We are convinced that Greece will by no means be threatened if it recognizes the right of a small ethnic community of loyal citizens to free expression and protection of their linguistic, national and cultural identity. It is for this reason that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski wrote a letter first to his Greek counterpart Kostas Karamanlis, raising these issues that we consider bilateral. Regardless of the fact that Mr. Karamanlis's response was rather one-sided, still we are satisfied that he replied and this is the first time that a Greek prime minister accepted a discussion on this subject, " said Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki in his interview with the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia.