Athens-Skopje negotiations resume
Athens and Skopje have resumed negotiations in Geneva over the issue of Macedonia’s name, with UN mediator Mathew Nimetz announcing visits to both countries.
Tuesday, 23.06.2009.
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Athens and Skopje have resumed negotiations in Geneva over the issue of Macedonia’s name, with UN mediator Mathew Nimetz announcing visits to both countries. Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis has called on Skopje to resume negotiations with a new approach, different to what has been seen thus far. Athens-Skopje negotiations resume Nimetz, who will again be mediating the talks, said that the stances of the two sides were “entrenched,” but that they could change and adapt, adding that he believed a solution acceptable to both sides existed, Reuters reports. Nimetz mediated the negotiations in 1995 that enabled Macedonia to become a UN member-state under the temporary name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Immediately after the collapse of Yugoslavia, Greece protested Macedonia’s name, claiming that it bore pretensions to the northern Greek province of the same name. However, the two sides have been unable to reach an agreement over a permanent name for the country ever since, hence the deadlock in Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, according to the Reuters news agency. Bakoyannis said that she believed that Skopje officials would come to the negotiations with new policies, according to Greek media. She added that she would try to meet with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Miloshoski on the margins of the upcoming informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Corfu, a meeting that Miloshoski has insisted on. The talks between Greece and Macedonia were suspended for four months because of presidential elections in Macedonia and European Parliamentary elections in Greece. Nimetz will be in Skopje on July 6-7 and in Athens on July 7-9.
Athens-Skopje negotiations resume
Nimetz, who will again be mediating the talks, said that the stances of the two sides were “entrenched,” but that they could change and adapt, adding that he believed a solution acceptable to both sides existed, Reuters reports.Nimetz mediated the negotiations in 1995 that enabled Macedonia to become a UN member-state under the temporary name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Immediately after the collapse of Yugoslavia, Greece protested Macedonia’s name, claiming that it bore pretensions to the northern Greek province of the same name.
However, the two sides have been unable to reach an agreement over a permanent name for the country ever since, hence the deadlock in Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, according to the Reuters news agency.
Bakoyannis said that she believed that Skopje officials would come to the negotiations with new policies, according to Greek media.
She added that she would try to meet with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Miloshoski on the margins of the upcoming informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Corfu, a meeting that Miloshoski has insisted on.
The talks between Greece and Macedonia were suspended for four months because of presidential elections in Macedonia and European Parliamentary elections in Greece.
Nimetz will be in Skopje on July 6-7 and in Athens on July 7-9.
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