Since 1990 Macedonia walks one way – cantonization, federalization and separation: FOCUS News Agency President 23 March 2013 | 18:09 | FOCUS News Agency
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Sofia. Albanians living in Macedonia insist on equal
development of the two regions – western and eastern. Since 1990
Macedonia has been walking one way – cantonization, federalization and
ensuing separation, FOCUS News Agency President Krasimir Uzunov said in
an interview with
TV+.
According to him cantonization became possible after the 2001 civil war –
a western canton where there are no Macedonians and an eastern canton
where Albanians are a minority.
The newspaper Koha writes that there are not any Albanians in only 18
municipalities in Macedonia, such as Kriva Palanka and Kamenica.
Macedonia has a problem with the payment of its foreign debt. The
country has a population of 2,125 million people, according to the
statistics, and I think 880,000 of them are Albanians. Macedonia spends
most of its budget on the so-called Macedonian diaspora, maintenance of
Macedonian churches and, of course, on financing films and monuments. As
Ljubco Georgievski has said, referring to Skopje 2014, perhaps the
furnaces will not be enough for all those monuments popping up all over
Skopje. Macedonia does not build roads, it builds monuments. Now there
are attempts to force large construction companies into bankruptcy so
that people close to [Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola] Gruevski can
take them and absorb money under pre-accession programs on roads, he
said further
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