INCIDENT IN FLORINA STRAINS RELATIONS BETWEEN SKOPJE AND ATHENS
admin1 – October 15, 2008 – 3:18pm

The Macedonian Foreign Ministry delivered a note of protest to Alexandra Papadopoulou, Head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje, over the detaining and expelling of Macedonian journalists and TV crews from the village of Zabrdani (Lofi), Lerin (Florina) region, in northern Greece. Deputy Foreign Minister Zoran Petrov delivered the note of protest. He informed Papadopoulou that all international human rights organizations and associations of journalists would be informed about this incident. Petrov explained that the journalists informed the Greek authorities at the border that they want to prepare a report on the dissatisfied Macedonians in Greece, not the military objects.