Greek ambassador refutes 'Macedonian minority' claim in BBC report

Greece's Ambassador to the UK, Dimitris Karamitsos-Tziras, send a letter of complaint to the BBC on Monday, following a report which spoke of the existence of a "Macedonian minority" in the country.
Karamitsos-Tziras said the report contains "important historical inaccuracies and distortions against Greece" and "does not do justice" to the Prespes agreement by attempting to raise a "non-existent issue."
The article, titled "Greece's invisible minority - the Macedonian Slavs," argued that, by ratifying the Prespes accord with the renamed North Macedonia, "Greece has implicitly recognised the existence of a Macedonian language and ethnicity."
The agreement, signed between Athens and Skopje to resolve the 27-year-old name dispute, does not recognize an ethnicity, but a nationality, the ambassador said, adding that while Greece recognizes equality before the law, the...