Greece’s warning against traveling to Macedonia is an over reaction to an isolated incident, Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, in a response to Athens's decision to caution those traveling to their northern neighbour.

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued what effectively amounted to a travel warning to its citizens after tourist buses carrying Greeks were spray painted with graffiti. Macedonia's foreign ministry said the incident was the result of “the negative climate that has been created with regard to our country during the past year”.

"We believe that such Greek reaction is utterly inappropriate and an overemphasis, and we appeal that this isolated incident, as well as the dozen similar incidents that occurred in Greece over the past year in which Macedonians were the target, are not abused in the context of daily politics," reads the statement from the Macedonian Foriegn Ministry.

The two neighboring countries are locked in an 18-year dispute over Macedonia’s name. Tensions reached a new high last April when Athens blocked Skopje's entry into NATO arguing that the name Macedonia implies territorial claims over its own northern province called the same. Since then there have been dozens of similar small scale incidents on both sides of the border.

The three buses carrying Greek tourists were parked in downtown Ohrid, Macedonia's leading tourist centre, when they were spray-painted with slogans such as "United Macedonia", "Alexander the Great" and some obscenities. The tourists who said they were very upset about the incident were escorted back to Greece under police protection.

Macedonia’s Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski condemned the latest incident.

Following the latest incident, the Macedonian ministry proposed that a mixed Macedonia-Greece committee is established, comprised of competent security and transport bodies from both countries, which would prevent and resolve such incidents in the future.

Macedonian PM condemns incident with Greek buses in Ohrid

Skopje. Macedonia’s Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has condemned the incident with the Greek tourist buses, which were sprayed with paint, Macedonian Telma television informed.
Answering a journalist’s question about Greek Foreign Ministry’s call on Greek citizens to take particular attention when visiting Macedonia, the Prime Minister said he did not believe the Greek government did this. He thinks the call is a step taken by individuals. He says the authorities in Athens have not appealed to their citizens not to visit Macedonia.
“I regret the incident. It is not something nice and I condemn the people who did it. But there is no need of such a call because if we look at the situation in this way, our citizens are constantly subjects to such pressure and spraying on vehicles. I do not think the Greek government issued the call and I do not think it is something organized. Each country has people who would do something, but problems are not solved in this way,” said Gruevski.

The greeks get a police escort while the macedonian truck trivers are terrorized in full view of the greek police.

I wonder, if the kids wrote "Stpo the greek nationalisam!", " greece recognise the Macedonian minority!", " EU stop the breaking of the human rights within your borders!", "greece is a leader of anty-democracy in Europe!" and so on, WOULD THE GREEKS EVEN MENTION THIS EVENT?
STUPID KIDS, they kould do much better.