Support to the initiative for protection and promotion of Macedonian identity "Makedonium Manifesto" can be given at social network "Facebook" as of Wednesday.
Thus, the initiators expect more support to the already 65,000 signatures by citizens of all ethnicities and ages nationwide, along with over 170 organizations and associations.
The campaign, which ends on Friday, will be followed by activities of informing representatives of European institutions in Macedonia and Brussels over the positions of the initiators and the country's citizens.
The initiative has been promoted by a group of Macedonian athletes and artists, who reacted to the omission of adjective "Macedonian" from the European Commission Progress Report.
The group's steering committee is consisted of Marin Dokuzovski (basketball coach), Indira Kastratovic (former handball star), Venko Andonovski (writer and university professor), Kaliopi Bukle (singer-songwriter), Simon Trpceski (world-renowned pianist), Esma Redzepova (singer), Darko Mitrevski (film director), Boris Trajanov (opera singer) and Goce Smilevski (writer).
The manifesto says that Macedonians are appalled at the act of erasing the adjective "Macedonian".
"Erasing is an act that has never been successful. A whole territory can be erased from a map, but a nation cannot be erased and we, Macedonians, are a nation. We urge you to press all those political powers that treat Macedonia with a rubber, asking you to remind them that Macedonia is real, but also a mystical country. Why would it be mentioned 28 times in the Bible," reads the manifesto.
