New York (ANA-MPA/P. Panagiotou) — Foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas reiterated the Greek government’s positions on resolving the FYROM name issue during a meeting in New York on Monday night with the UN’s special representative on the issue Matthew Nimetz, who said in reply to press questions later that “now is not the time for final proposals”.    Droutsas told reporters that […]

FYROM’s President Gjorge Ivanov in his office, decorated by the old flag of FYROM with the Vergina Star. One of the many good-will “Contributions” of FYROM’s President to a mutually acceptable solution. Despite Greece keeps showing willingness to consider a mutual acceptable solution, FYROM insists on proving there is no way, they will ever budged from their hard Nationalistic line. […]

Skopje’s Award for its Racist Behavior and the Treaty of St. Germain-en Layé of 1919:    EU Application of Double Standards on the Name Issue  By Marcus A. Templar In Business Law, the principle nemo dat quod non habet means that no one may give what one does not have; nevertheless, this principle goes a little further.  This rule stays valid […]

ANA-MPA/The UN Secretary General’s special mediator on the FYROM name issue, Ambassador Matthew Nimetz, is due in Athens on Friday for talks with the Greek government, following a similar visit to FYROM, which he wound up on Thursday in talks with FYROM prime minister Nikola Gruevski.    In statements to the press after his meeting with Gruevski, Nimetz stressed that the […]

Skopje, 18. February 2010.0 Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, chair of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, has come to a first positive conclusion in the delegation visit to Skopje today: “The visit has been positive so far. I have the feeling that the breakthrough in the name issue has never been closer. The meeting with Prime […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris This article was written in August of 2009 and it was originally published in the Slovak language under the title “Macedónsky zápas o názov a budúcnosť európskej integrácie bývalej Juhoslovanskej republiky Macedónsko” in the October 2009 edition of the Slovak political and diplomatic magazine “Euro-Atlantic Quarterly”. Miltiades Elia Bolaris We are both neighbors. I live in […]

Focus Information Agency reports: In case the problem is not resolved by the end of March, Ali Ahmeti will announce to Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski he is leaving the coalition, resources of the newspaper said. According to them, despite the differences in the approach towards the name issue, DUI and VMRO-DPMNE has not agreed under several other issues, which has […]

Nikola Gruevski’s irresponsible foreign policy, along with his administration’s unwillingness to compromise regarding the Macedonian name issue with Greece, results in FYROM’s isolation in international level. This is becoming clearer more and more everyday. Yesterday it was Slovenia’s turn, a traditional ally of FYROM, to turn its back on FYROM. Slovenian Prime Minister, Borut Pahor, who is attending the EU summit in Brussels, […]

Only 20 percent of FYROM’s citizens support no change in the name, according to a new survey which was  published yesterday by FYROM’s A1 . According to the report, the rest might consider the solution of  accepting adjectives, as a qualifier for the name, as long as it does not “threaten” their identity. The survey shows that 30 percent of the population supports the […]

Journalist: And one more question, if I may: In Australia, Mr. Gruevski spoke again today of “Aegean Macedonians”. How do you reply? Mr. Droutsas: We will not enter into a dialogue with Mr. Gruevski, with Skopje, on non-existent issues. I will just stand on what I said recently. That Greece looks on its relations with Skopje with an open mind, […]