Moscow, 15 January 2018 – The intensified Macedonia’s name talks is linked to the desire of the United States to bring this country into NATO, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday during his annual press conference in Moscow. Lavrov said that efforts have been in long-standing twilight sleep for number of years and US decided to …
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Athens, 14 January 2018 – A poll has showed that 68 percent of Greeks are against including term ‘Macedonia’ in the name, MIA reports from Athens. A Marc poll for Greek newspaper Proto Thema shows that only 23.6 percent of respondents agree over the inclusion of term ‘Macedonia’ in a compound name. According to the results, 63.8 …
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Athens, 14 January 2018 – Georgios Katrougalos, Greece’s Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said the possible name solution should not be a tool for irredentism, MIA reports from Athens. “We are negotiating a name that will make a clear distinction between the historical Greek Macedonia and the country which capital is Skopje, a name that will …
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A name compromise must be reached in order to open Macedonia’s accession path to the EU and other organizations, says Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in an interview with daily “Ethnos”. “In the case of fyRoM, our neighbors believed they could join these organizations by avoiding an agreement with Greece, which is impossible, while some of …
Sixty-five years have passed since the last visit of a Turkish President to Greece, and this alone makes the two-day visit of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens on 7 and 8 December -which had been revealed first by IBNA on 3 November – a very significant event for both countries. The last visit of a …
