RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
PRFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 66, Part II, 7 April 2003
MACEDONIAN MINORITY ORGANIZATIONS IN BULGARIA UNITE. Organizations of the ethnic Macedonian minority in Bulgaria met in the eastern
Macedonian village of Novo Selo on 5 April at the invitation of the World Macedonian Congress (SMK), the Skopje daily "Utrinski vesnik"
reported. Representatives of the United Macedonian Organization Ilinden (OMO Ilinden), the United Macedonian Organization Ilinden-Party
for Economic Development and Integration of the Population in Bulgaria (OMO Ilinden-PIRIN), the Secret Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization (TMRO), the Independent Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO-nezavisna), and other organizations signed a
protocol to form an umbrella organization. The Community of Macedonians is to represent the minority, which has some 5,000 members,
according to the 2002 census. UB
See the MHRMC's 2001 Annual Report - The Macedonian
Minority in Bulgaria for more information on human rights abuses against Macedonians in Bulgaria. This includes problems with the latest
census for Macedonians, who are estimated to number over 500,000.
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