“We would like to distance ourselves from any visual symbols or rhetorical messages that have an offensive connotation,” the Government’s press service said in a statement on Monday, noting that the billboards are part of a private exhibition.
The billboards promoting the art exhibition, display Greek flags with a swastika replacing the white cross.
The Government has already told the Greek Ambassador to
The billboards have caused an outcry in
“It directly offends the national symbol of our country and our fight against fascism and Nazism,” Greek Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Jorgos Koumoutsakos told media on Sunday.
He added that
“This incident shows that those who invest in chauvinism and fanaticism are making a big mistake, and confirms the correctness of the Greek stance, concretely, that in order to create relations of solidarity, practices of good neighbourly relations between the countries and people need to be respected,” he said.
Some Macedonian media also condemned the billboards.
“Someone is obviously trying to spark national hatred,” commented Monday’s edition of Vecer.
Skopje and Athens are engaged in a long running dispute over the name ‘
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Learn first some history and then borrow the Greeks History...it a pathetic way of trying to gain history from a great country like GREECE.....with the VETO and the new Embargo that is coming you are going to be in deep crisis.Do not forget that Greece control 65% of you economy, even the biggest supermarkets in Scopia are Greek, or the phone line you are using belongs to COSMOTE.Wake up......Do not believe to your political inability to create a country. One day america would leave you exposed and then Greece Would control the whole area
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