The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs today appealed to the Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, Michael Roth “from refraining from history lessons” when visiting the Balkan countries.
“We call on Michael Roth, the German Deputy Foreign Minister to be more cautious when visiting Balkan countries, and to try and avoid giving history lessons and show the necessary respect for the sensitivity of his European partners”, reacted the Greek MFA, after Roth’s statement yesterday in Skopje that “no one outside Greece and Macedonia understands the dispute, which is absurd”.
Roth, yesterday at a joint press conference with the Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov, said that history should remain history and we should move towards a common future.