Deputy FM Amanatidis: Close to agreement, waiting for Skopje’s decisions


Athens and Skopje are close to agreement and Greece is waiting for decisions of the Prime Minister of the neighboring country, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Amanatidis said in an interview with TV Skai. Amanatidis considers that an agreement on the name issue is in the interest of both countries and ‘settle problems in …

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TV Skai: Athens and Skopje have not yet iron their differences over the scope of usage of the new name


If the Macedonian, Greek Prime Ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras respectively, agree in the next few days on a solution to the name issue in the key phone conversation and convene a meeting in Prespa to make it official, several phases would follow until the parliaments of two countries ratify the deal. Part of …

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Katrougalos: There is progress in name talks, ball in other side’s court


– Greek Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Georgios Katrougalos is a moderate optimist regarding the name issue settlement, saying the ball is in the other side’s court. “With regards to a solution, I am still a moderate optimist there is a window of opportunity and certain progress has been made on many issues. The ball is …

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Greece’s Skai TV: Macedonian minister, party leader voice optimism over name settlement


There is consensus as to whether we should negotiate, as to whether we should accept some kind of compromise, because both conservative and social democratic administrations have at some point accepted certain compromises, Macedonian Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska told Greece’s Skai TV. Speaking as a guest of the TV show ‘Istories’, Sekerinska said that the …

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