Macedonia will be next to join NATO, says former commander
Former NATO commander, General James Stavridis, says he thinks Macedonia will the next country to join the western military alliance.
Source: Tanjug
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According to him, this would represent "the next step towards unification and strengthening of the Balkans."
US Vice President Mike Pence, on behalf of President Donald Tramp, earlier this month also reiterated his country's support for Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic integration in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
"Mike Pence said that the United States continues to support Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations, and encouraged Zaev to continue with priority reforms that will speed Macedonia's path in that direction," the White House announced at the time.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, after the election of the new government in Skopje, urged it to implement necessary reforms, including those regarding the rule of law, in order to accelerate the path to Euro-Atlantic integration.
"As Skopje progresses, NATO will continue to offer its support, through its office in the capital," Stoltenberg said.
I don't want my country in Nato or EU. Rep. Of Macedonia should have listened to Russia. We should have never recognized kosovo.
Kosovo is Serbian
(Aleksandar, 26 July 2017 14:39)
Your country of "macedonia" is as fake as Kosovo. You, and the Greek hating morons that ridiculously called you obvious frauds "Macedonians" lost the argument the second you turned into apparently the antihellenic founders of the Hellenistic period.
(Greek, 26 July 2017 16:48)
We are getting tired of Bulgarian speaking Slavs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia claiming antiquity and Greek history. We are getting tired of seeing grotesque Italian reproduction statues erected in this pit of a place. We are getting tired of these Slavs parading illegal flags with Greek symbols around their country. We are getting tired of reading Antiquization propaganda coming out of the deluded uneducated diaspora of Australia. We are getting tired of these Slavs stealing Bulgarian history. We are getting tired of these Slavs stealing Albanian history. we are getting tired of these Slavs stealing Serbian history. We are getting tired of seeing United Macedonian maps. We are getting tired of FYROM. The world is getting tired of FYROM.
(elefterios, 26 July 2017 22:06)
Nato membership will make it almost impossible for albanians to steal macedonians territory. Over to plan B: multiply like cockroaches so you become majority in the whole country and then claim it as yours. Just like you did in Kosovo.
(Hank the Tank, 28 July 2017 18:01)
"James Stavridis", who can't utter a single coherent sentence in Greek, has no clue what he is taking about.
His grandfather, a Greek, would be deeply ashamed of him calling antihellenic former Yugoslavians "ethnic" Macedonians. This is like claiming Palestinians "ethnic" Hebrews or Serbians ethnic Albanians. Offensive and dangerous ethnic engineering... ironically much like the behavior of the Soviet Union.
As assimilated (effectively non-Greek) American Stavridis shows by backstabbing NATO ally Greece on this name issue shows, NATO is untrustworthy for security. It's nothing more than a front for American nationalist agenda dejour. The best security is defend one's own borders because when it comes to national security.. few nations are trustworthy . If that is not a feasible option, invite many military powers into one's nation then take the one the delivers with actions rather than empty speeches of praise meant to pacify the weak minded.
(Grel, 19 August 2017 06:31)